Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea, 1513-1548

by Fernandez De Oviedo Y Valdes, Gonzalo; Dille, Glen F.

• ISBN13: 9780813035406
• ISBN10: 0813035406
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-13
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

This Collection of dramatic tales of seafaring and shipwrecks originally appeared in the fiftieth and final book of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's monumental General and Natural History of the Indies. Oviedo's work remains the single most important sixteenth-century source on the early Spanish presence in the New World. This volume reveals the perils and disasters experienced by travelers to and from the New World between 1492 and 1548, but it has never before been available in an English translation.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Translator's Introduction	p. xv
Book Fifty Prolog	p. 1
Of the father and son who were adrift on a plank	p. 5
Of a ship that departed this city of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola and struck a rock on this coast	p. 7
Of a ship that was lost on the coast of Tierra Firme	p. 9
Of a ship that sank in the Ocean Sea three hundred leagues from land	p. 14
Of a Portuguese youth who...dove into the water...to swim to another ship of the fleet	p. 17
Of two ships coming from Spain to...Hispaniola; and the one...was shipwrecked...and how two days later the second ship ran aground and sank	p. 21
Of a ship many leagues out to sea that caught fire which was miraculously extinguished	p. 23
Of three ships two hundred or more leagues out to sea that miraculously escaped disaster with all their people aboard	p. 26
Of the caravel they call the Taviras' for the marvelous thing ... that God and His Glorious Mother did for these women	p. 29
How Licentiate Alonso Zuazo's caravel was wrecked on the Alacranes Islands with almost fifty-five or sixty persons	p. 33
Of the shipwreck that happened to Baltasar de Castro and others on a ship from Spain bound for this island of Hispaniola	p. 80
Of the strange case of Juan de Lepe ... on the island of Hispaniola	p. 80
Of the unfortunate fate of a certain fleet from which thirty companions were cast ashore in Tierra Firme	p. 81
Of the admirable case of a Venetian sailor who was marooned on an island for two years, and of another Genoese marooned for eight years	p. 81
Of the misfortune that befell a captain named Benito Hurtado and his people at sea and on land in Tierra Firme	p. 81
Of a shipwreck in which the Mother of God worked her marvels for the ships master named Baltasar de Chaves	p. 82
Of the wreck of a ship that embarked from this city of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola	p. 82
Of a very notable case that happened a few years ago to one Antonio de Palenzuela on the coast of Tierra Firme	p. 83
Of what happened to Master Francisco de Santa Ana ...and to others with him on a ship ... bound for Spain	p. 83
Of the several wrecks of Cristóbal de Sanabria...and of the others who were with him	p. 84
Of the unfortunate event and shipwreck...of a pilot named	p. 98
Of a shipwreck and the unfortunate events that happened to the survivors of the fleet [of] Licentiate Ayllón	p. 101
Of a shipwreck on the island of Cáliz...of some Spaniards of the army of Governor Hierónimo Dortal	p. 103
[Gaspar de Carvajal's] report of the...river called the Marañón, along which Captain Francisco de Orellana...navigated more than two thousand leagues	p. 107
Of the shipwreck...that befell a reverend canon of the holy cathedral of this our city of Santo Domingo	p. 148
The marvelous case of a Portuguese ship that ... left the port of ... Santo Domingo to return to Portugal and ... was blown to the island of Bermuda	p. 152
Of two hurricanes...that struck the island of Hispaniola...in the months of August and September of 1545	p. 156
Of shipwrecks and the very marvelous occurrence [in 1548] that is here recounted	p. 163
Of another shipwreck that happened later in the same year as the previous one but with not such happy outcome	p. 164
In which are the author's conclusion and defense of these histories to those who may see these materials	p. 167
Notes	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 203
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