The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 Page: 116 of 253
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THE JOURNEY OF
toil or suffering in this world comes near
it.
All over this country there are a great
many deer, fowl and c,ther animals which I
have before enumerated. Here also they
come up with cows; I hav'e seen them thrice
and have eaten their meat. They appear to
me of the size of those in Spain. Their horns
are small, like those of the Moorish cattle;
the hair is very long, like fine wool and like
a peajacket; some are brownish and others
black, and to my taste they have better and
more meat than those from here. Of the
small hides the Indians make blankets to
cover themselves with, and of the taller ones
they make shoes and targets. These cows
come from the north, across the coun-
try further on, to the coast of Florida,
and are found all over the land for over
four hundred leagues. On this whole
stretch, through the valleys by which they
come, people who live there descend to sub-
sist upon their flesh. And a great quantity
of hides are met with inland.30
"In print, this is the earliest notice extant of
the American Bison, or Buffalo. The Letter to
the Audiencia does not mention the "cows." It
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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/m1/116/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .