The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 Page: 74 of 253
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THE JOURNEY OF
way, and with this he went on with his
craft20
As I could not follow him, I went after
the other barge, which was out at sea and
waited for me, and reaching it I found it
was the one of the Captains Pefialosa and
Tellez. We travelled together for four days,
our daily ration being half a handful of
raw maize. At the end of these four days
a storm overtook us, in which the other
barge was lost.21 God's great mercy pre-
served us from being drowned in that
weather.
It being winter and the cold very great,
and as we had been suffering so many days
from hunger and from the injuries we re-
ceived from the waves, that the next day
people began to break down, so that when
'The conduct of Narvaez is justly criticised by
Oviedo (Vol. III, p. 590). The Letter to the
Audiencia mentions it, and Relacion (p. 275) al-
ludes to it simply.
"Relacion (p. 275) mentions the loss of the
barge of TeNlhz and Pefialosa. The text of Ovi-
edo (III, p. 59o) is quite different. What Cabeza
de Vaca states happened four days after the meet-
ing; the Letter to the Audiencia refers to the day
immediately after. It barely alludes to the loss
of the barge of Penalosa,
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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/m1/74/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .