Translator's Note | p. xiii |
Translator's Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
A Word About the Commentaries of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca | p. 1 |
We Leave the Island of Cape Verde | p. 3 |
The Governor and His Fleet Arrive at Santa Catalina, in Brazil, Where the Company Disembarks | p. 5 |
Nine Christians Come to the Island | p. 7 |
The Governor Makes Haste on His Journey | p. 9 |
The Governor and His People Begin Their First Ventures into the Interior | p. 11 |
What the Governor and His People Went By Along the Road, and What Sort of Country It Is | p. 23 |
Hardships Along the Way for the Governor and His People, and the Kinds of Pines and Pine Cones in That Land | p. 17 |
The Explorers Starve, but Save Themselves-with Worms, Which They Get from Some Canes | p. 19 |
The Indians Are Afraid of Horses | p. 22 |
The Governor Travels by Canoe on the Rio de Iguaza, and the Men Carry Their Canoes on Their Shoulders for a League to Bypass a Bad Stretch of the River at Some Rapids | p. 24 |
They Make Rafts to Carry the Sick | p. 27 |
The Governor Arrives at the City of Asuncion, Where He Finds the Christian Spaniards He Had Come to Help | p. 29 |
The Spaniards Who had Fallen Ill on the Rio de Piqueri Arrive in the City of Asuncion | p. 32 |
The Governor Sends Help to the People Who Had Gone in His Flagship to Buenos Aires to Assist in the Resettlement of That Port | p. 34 |
They Kill the Enemies They Capture, and Then Eat Them | p. 36 |
The Governor Concludes a Peace with the Agaces Tribe | p. 38 |
The Settlers Complain About Your Majesty's Officials to the Governor | p. 41 |
They Complain About the Guaycuru Indians to the Governor | p. 42 |
The Governor Asks for More Details About the Complaint | p. 43 |
The Governor and His People Cross the River, and Two Christians Drown | p. 46 |
Spies Go Out by Order of the Governor to Follow the Guaycuru Indians | p. 48 |
Following the Enemy, the Governor is Advised that They Are Just Ahead | p. 50 |
A Jaguar Causes an Uproar Between the Spaniards and the Indians | p. 52 |
The Governor and His Men Catch Up with the Enemy | p. 54 |
The Governor Breaks His Enemies | p. 57 |
The Governor Returns to the City of Asuncidn with All His Men | p. 59 |
The Agaces Indians Break the Peace | p. 61 |
The Governor Sets One of the Guaycuru Prisoners Free and Sends Him to Fetch the Others | p. 63 |
The Guaycurues Come to Give Their Allegiance to His Majesty | p. 64 |
The Governor, Making Peace with the Guaycurues, Returns His Prisoners | p. 66 |
The Apernes Indians Come to Make Peace and Give Their Allegiance | p. 68 |
Sentence Is Passed on the Agaces, with an Opinion Offered by the Clerics, the Captains, and Your Majesty's Officials | p. 70 |
The Governor Again Helps the People of Buenos Aires | p. 71 |
Three Christians and Some Indians Come Back from Their Explorations | p. 74 |
Boards Are Cut for Brigantines and a Caravel | p. 75 |
The Indians of the Countryside Return to Be of Service | p. 76 |
The Town of Asuncion Burns | p. 80 |
The Return of Domingo de Irala | p. 82 |
What Gonzalo de Mendoza Wrote | p. 85 |
The Governor Helps Gonzalo de Mendoza's Men | p. 87 |
Four Christians Die of Their Wounds in a War | p. 88 |
The Friars Flee | p. 90 |
The Governor Takes Four Hundred Men on His Expedition | p. 92 |
The Governor Leaves Behind the Supplies He Is Carrying | p. 94 |
He Pauses to Talk with the Natives of That Port | p. 95 |
He Sends for an Interpreter for the Payaguaes | p. 98 |
The Horses Embark from the Port | p. 99 |
How They Killed Juan de Ayolas and His Companions When They Came to This Port | p. 101 |
The Interpreter and the Others Who Were Supposed to Return Fail to Do So | p. 104 |
The Guaxarapos Parley with the Governor | p. 108 |
The Indians of That Country Come to Live Along the Banks of the River | p. 110 |
They Put Three Crosses at the Mouth of This River | p. 113 |
The Indian Farmers of Puerto Reyes | p. 116 |
How Garcia's Indians Populated This Place | p. 119 |
The Governor Speaks with the Chaneses | p. 120 |
The Governor Looks for Garcia's Indians | p. 122 |
The Governor Speaks to the Officials and Lets Them Know What Is Happening | p. 123 |
The Governor Sends Word to the Xarayes | p. 125 |
The Interpreters Return from Seeing the Xarayes Indians | p. 130 |
The Governor Resolves to Set Off on His Exploration | p. 133 |
The Rio Caliente | p. 135 |
The Governor Sends Men to Look for a House That Lies Ahead | p. 137 |
The Interpreter Comes Back from the Little House | p. 139 |
The Governor and His Men Return to the Port | p. 141 |
How They Wanted to Kill the Men Who Had Stayed Behind in Puerto Reyes | p. 142 |
The Governor Orders Captain Mendoza to Search for Provisions | p. 144 |
The Governor Sends Captain Ribera in a Brigantine to Explore the River of the Xarayes | p. 146 |
Captain Francisco de Ribera Returns from His Expedition | p. 149 |
Captain Francisco de Ribera Gives an Account of His Exploration | p. 150 |
The Governor Sends for Captain Gonzalo de Mendoza | p. 155 |
Hernando de Ribera Returns from His Exploration Along the River | p. 158 |
What Happened to the Governor and His People in Puerto Reyes | p. 159 |
The Governor and His Men Arrive in Asuncion, and He Is Thrown into Chains | p. 162 |
The People Gather in Front of Domingo de Irak's House | p. 166 |
Turbulence and Uproar Abound in the Land | p. 168 |
The Governor Is Held Prisoner in a Very Harsh Jail | p. 170 |
The Insurgents Plunder the Land and Take Its Estates by Force | p. 172 |
The Friars Flee Again | p. 174 |
How They Put Everyone Not of Their Opinion on the Rack | p. 176 |
They Want to Kill an Alderman Because of the Request He Made of Them | p. 177 |
The Insurgents Allow the Indians to Eat Human Flesh | p. 179 |
They Write to Your Majesty and Send on Their Account | p. 181 |
The Governor Is Poisoned Three Times with Arsenic While He Is on the Road | p. 184 |
Postscript: The Account of Hernando de Ribera Made Before Pedro Hernandez, Notary Public, on March 3 of the Year 1545 | p. 188 |
Appendix:Original Preliminary Remarks (the Prohemio) by Cabeza de Vaca | p. 196 |
Illustrations Follow Page | p. 200 |
Notes | p. 211 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 229 |
Index | p. 233 |
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