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MARCOS OF NIZZA
life, neither did I feare so much the losse
tf mine owne life, as that I should not bee
able to returne to give information of the
greatnesses of that Countrey, where our
Lord God might be glorified: and streight
way I cut the cords of my budgets which
I carried with me ful of merchandise for
traffique, which I would not doe till then,
nor give anything to any man, and began to
divide all that I carried with mee among the
principall men, willing them not to be afraid,
but to goe forward with me, and so they did.
And going on our way, within a dayes
iourney of Ceuola wee met two other In-
dians of those which went with Stephan,
which were bloody and wounded in many
places: and as soone as they came to us, they
which were with me began to make great
lamentation. These wounded Indians I
asked for Stephan, and they agreeing in all
poynts with the first Indian sayd, that after
they had put him into the foresayd great
house without giving him meat or drinke all
that day and all that night, they tooke from
Stephan all the things which hee carried
with him. The next day when the Sunne
was a lance high, Stephan went out of the
house, and some of the chiefe men with him,
and suddenly came store of people from the
citie, whom as soone as hee sawe he began
to run away and we likewise, and foorthwith
they shot at us and wounded us, and cer-
taine dead men fell upon us, and so we lay
till night and durst not stirre, and we heard
great rumours in the citie, and saw many
men and women keeping watch and ward
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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/m1/246/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .