The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 Page: 115 of 253
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ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA
remedy, just as bad and even worse, which
is to go about with a firebrand, set-
ting fire to the plains and timber so as to
drive off the mosquitoes, and also to get
lizards and similar things which they eat, to
come out of the soil. In the same manner
they kill deer, encircling them with fires,
and they do it also to deprive the animals of
pasture, compelling them to go for food
where the Indians want. For never they
build their abodes except where there are
wood and water, and sometimes load them-
selves with the requisites and go in quest
of deer, which are found mostly where there
is neither water nor wood.
On the very day they arrive they kill deer
and whatever else can be had and use all
the water and wood to cook their food with
and build fires against the mosquitoes. They
wait for another day to get something to
take along on the road, and when they leave
they are so badly bitten by mosquitoes as to
appear like lepers. In this manner they
satisfy their hunger twice or thrice a year
and at such great sacrifice as I have told.
Having been with them I can say that no
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Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century & Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914. The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth3001/m1/115/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .