The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 Page: 221 of 253
xxii p., 1 ℓ., 230 p. : 1 ℓ. incl. 2 facsim. front. (fold. map) ; 19 cm.View a full description of this book.
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JOURNEY OF ALVAR NUNEZ
that quarter, being two hundred leagues dis-
tant from this Citie of Mexico. As soone
as the governour, and the Friers were come
unto that Citie, hee sent certaine of those
Indians which I had given him, home into
their Countrey, to signifie, and declare to
the people of the same, That they were to
vnderstand, that your' Maiestie had com-
manded they should not hereafter bee made
slaves, and that they should not be afrayd
any more, but might returne unto their
houses, and live peaceably in them, (for be-
fore that time they had bin greatly troubled
by the evill dealings which were used
toward them) and that your maiestie would
cause them to be chastened, which were the
causes of their vexation. With these In-
dians about twentie dayes after returned
about 400 men; which coming before the
governour said unto him, that they came on
the behalfe of al their countrey-men, to tell
him, that they desired to see and know those
men which did them so great a pleasure as
to suffer them to returne to their houses,
and to sow maiz for their sustenance, for by
the space of many yeres they were driven to
flee into the mountaines, hiding themselves
like wild beasts, for feare lest they should be
made slaves, and that they and all the rest
of their people were ready to doe whatsoever
should bee commanded them: whom the
governour comforted with good wordes, and
gave them victuals, and stayed them with
him three or foure dayes wherein the Friars
taught them to make the signe of the crosse,
and to learne the name of our Lorde Jesus
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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/m1/221/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .