The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 Page: 139 of 253
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ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA'
ROM the Island of Ill-Fate on, all the
Indians whom we met as far as to
here have the custom of not cohabit-
ing with their wives when these are preg-
nant, and until the child is two years old.32
Children are nursed to the age of twelve
years, when they are old enough to gather
their own food. We asked them why they
brought their children up in that way and
they replied, it was owing to the great scar-
City of food all over that country, since it
Was common (as we saw) to be without it
two or three days, and even four, and for
that reason they nursed the little ones so
long to preserve them from perishing
thraugh hunger. And even if they should
Survive, they would be very delicate and
wveak. When one falls sick he is left to die
in the field unless he be somebody's child:
Other invalids, if unable to travel, are aban-
doned; but a son or brother is taken
along.
There is also a custom for husbands to
"Not in Oviedo. He meritions it, however (on
P. 67), as stated by Cabeza de Vaca in his book.
The same in regard to the following sentences.
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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/m1/139/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .