The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 Page: 182 of 253
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THE JOURNEY OF
ing they would lift their clasped hands to
Heaven and then pass them all over their
body. The same they did at sunset. They
are well conditioned people, apt to follow
any line which is well traced for them.
In the village where they had given us
the emeralds, they also gave Dorantes over
six hundred hearts of deer, opened, of which
they kept always a great store for eating.
For this reason we gave to their settlement
the name of "village of the hearts." Through
it leads the pass into many provinces near
the South Sea, and any one who should at-
tempt to get there by another route must
surely be lost, as there is no maize on the
coast, and they eat powdered fox-tail grass,
straw, and fish, which they catch in the sea
in rafts, for they have no canoes. The
women cover their loins with straw and
grass. They are a very shy and surly
people.
We believe that, near the coast, in a line
with the villages which we followed, there
are more than a thousand leagues of inhab-
ited land, where they have plenty of victuals,
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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/m1/182/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .