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The Expedition of Panfilo de Narvi ez
Cabeza de Vaca's published account is identified as Naufrdgios.
References to the 1542 edition are to the Bandelier translation and
are indicated by the name Bandelier; references to the 1555 edi-
tion are to Hodge's reprint of the Buckingham Smith translation,
and are distinguished by the name Hodge.
As an historical source the most valuable portion of Oviedo's
narrative, as compared with the two relations by Cabeza de Vaca,
is his paraphrase of Andr6s Dorantes' independent account of the
journey of the Mal-Hado survivors along the Texas coast in the
spring of 1529, and their subsequent adventures until Cabeza de
Vaca rejoined them at the "River of Nuts," in the autumn of
1534. Each of the three contemporary accounts of the NarvAez
expedition that have come down to us is a narration by Cabeza
de Vaca to this point, where he rejoins the others after five and
a half year's separation. Here Relacion abruptly ends; Naufrigios
supplies briefly, from what the survivors told Cabeza de Vaca at
the time, the adventures of those who went forward from Mal-Hado
in 1529; and only Oviedo has preserved Dorantes' detailed inde-
pendent relation. My belief is that in the various official reports
prepared by these castaways after their return to civilization,
Cabeza de Vaca, as the only survivor of the royal officers of
Narviez's abortive colony, reported, together with his subsequent
personal adventures, all that was done by Narvez and his men
as an organized expedition; while Dorantes took up the narrative
where the command of the Mal-Hado survivors devolved upon him
by reason of Cabeza de Vaca's illness; and that Relacion is Cabeza
de Vaca's part of one of these official reports which he subsequently
used as a framework for his published narrative. At least, it
may be said that Relacion and Naufragios are very closely related;
Relacion being either a condensation of Naufrgios or Naufrai gios
an expansion of Relacion; and it is significant that Relacion ends
at exactly the same point in the narrative as does that portion of
Oviedo's account of which Cabeza de Vaca is the narrator.
2. THE EXPEDITION OF PANFILO DE NARVAEZ, BY GONZALO
FERNANDEZ DE OVIEDO
This is the seventeenth book of the Second Part, and the thirty-
fifth of the General y Natural Historia de las Indias, Islas
y Tierra-Firma del Mar Oceano, of the royal crown of Castilla and123
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, July 1923 - April, 1924, periodical, 1924; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101086/m1/129/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.