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The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca (1542), Translated by Fanny Bandelier (1905). (pdf version). Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (English translation from 1961) The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528–1536, hosted by the Portal to Texas History
Portrait of adelantado [note 1] Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who introduced the India Juliana in a 1545 account presented to the Council of the Indies.. Although the historical references about the India Juliana are brief, they establish a strong counterpoint with the more usual representations of Guaraní women in the early-colonial sources of the Río de la Plata region. [3]
The later Spanish tales were largely caused by reports given by the four shipwrecked survivors of the failed Narváez expedition, which included explorers Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his slave Estevanico. Eventually returning to New Spain, the adventurers said they had heard stories from natives about cities with great and limitless riches.
Alonso del Castillo Maldonado (died after 1547) was an early Spanish explorer in the Americas.He was one of the last four survivors of the original members of the 1527 Narváez expedition, along with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza and his African slave Estevanico.
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca wrote about the Akokisa in 1528, calling them the "Han." [3] ... Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris, 14, 127–149.
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November 6 – Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions become the first known Europeans to set foot on the shores of what is present-day Texas, when they and 80 survivors are wrecked on Galveston Island following a storm. [15] Only 15 live beyond winter, and they are eventually enslaved by various Indian tribes.
Andrés Dorantes de Carranza (ca. 1500 – 1550s), was an early Spanish explorer in the Americas. He was one of the four last survivors of the Narváez expedition , along with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , Alonso del Castillo Maldonado , and Estevanico , Dorantes' slave of African descent.