The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 Page: 181 of 253
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ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA
answer by signs, as if they spoke our tongue
and we theirs; for, although we spoke six
languages,53 not everywhere could we use
them, since we found more than a thousand
different ones. In that part of the country
those who were at war would at once make
peace and become friendly to each other, in
order to meet us and bring us all they pos-
sessed; and thus we left the whole country
at peace.
We told them, by signs which they under-
stood, that in Heaven there was a man called
God, by us, who had created Heaven and
earth, and whom we worshipped as our
Lord; that we did as he ordered us to do,
all good things coming from his hand, and
that if they were to do the same they would
become very happy; and so well were they
inclined that, had there been a language in
which we could have made ourselves per-
fectly understood, we would have left them
all Christians. All this we gave them to
understand as clearly as possible, and since
then, when the sun rose, with great shout
'3The acquiring of six Indian languages in the
cource of eight years, through practice imposed
by necessity, is not impossible.
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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/m1/181/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .