The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 Page: 177 of 253
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ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA
So we went on our way and traversed the
whole country to the South Sea, and our
resolution was not shaken by the fear of
great starvation, which the Indians said we
should suffer (and indeed suffered') during
the first seventeen days of travel. All along
the river, and in the course of these seven-
teen days we received plenty of cowhides,
and did not eat of their famous fruit (cha-
can), but our food consisted (for each day)
of a handful of deer-tallow, which for that
purpose we always sought to keep, and so
endured these seventeen days, at the end of
which we crossed the river and marched
for seventeen days more. At sunset, on a
plain between very high mountains, we met
people who, for one-third of the year, eat
but powdered straw, and as we went by
just at that time, had to eat it also, until, at
the end of that journey we found some
permanent houses, with plenty of harvested
maize, of which and of its meal they gave
us great quantities, also squashes and beans,
and blankets of cotton, with all of which
miles, and thence northwest for about eighty
miles more, by air line; whereas, by ascending
the Pecos they had to go due north.
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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/m1/177/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .