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These were robbed like the others. They gave to the Christians
the little that was left. All that night was spent in great games
and feasts, and the Christians healed them in the same manner
that they were accustomed to do. That night they sent to call
people down toward the sea, and the following day many men and
women came to see these Christians and their miracles, and brought
things which they gave them. These labored much to take them
toward the sea, because there they thought to retrieve their losses
and compensate themselves for that which had been taken from
them. They said they had there many people, who would give the
Christians many things. But they would not go [toward the sea]
but higher into the interior, because they had been warned [by
experience] against the people of the coast; and also because they
had always been told that they could not get out toward the sea, or
toward sunset, and they feared to give in and go there when they
thought so little of the idea. For these reasons they wished to go
higher. The Indians did not hinder them much. They said that
there were no people nor food, except very far from there. As
the Indians saw they would not change their proposition, they sent
Indians to find people.
The second day following the Christians departed and many
people went with them.10 They had many women, who carried
water for the road, which was very scarce among them and the
weather was very warm, also they carried food and other things
that had been given to them. After traveling two leagues they
met the Indians who had gone to find people. They said that
they had found none, except very far from there, upon which all
[the Indians] stopped, mournfully, and begged the Christians
much to go with them where they wished to take them. Since
they could not achieve this desire they took their leave, weeping,
went with three companions who survived from the death journey
[jornada] of Pnfilo de Narvaez into La Florida, crossing the land from
there to the South Sea, instructing the barbarous people who inhabited
it; performing, by virtue of the sign of the cross, infinite miracles,
up to raising the dead; it appears by sound rules of cosmography, that
from where they began to travel to the country where they arrived, they
were obliged to pass very near where the town of Cerralvo is today."
1oFor this journey see comparative itineraries of Oviedo and Cabeza
de Vaca, THE QUARTERLY, XXII, 240-243; and Baskett, Ibid., X, 273-274.f296
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