The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 Page: 80 of 253
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THE JOURNEY OF
beach of the same island again, less the three
that had perished underneath the barge.
The rest of us, as naked as we had been
born, had lost everything, and while it was
not worth much, to us it meant a great
deal. it was in November, bitterly cold,
and we in such a state that every bone
could easily be counted, and we looked like
death itself. Of myself I can say that since
the month of May I had not tasted anything
but toasted maize, and even sometimes had
been obliged to eat it raw. Although the
horses were killed during the time the
barges were built, I never could eat of them,
and not ten times did I taste fish. This I
say in order to explain and that any one
might guess how we were off. On top of
all this, a north wind arose, so that we were
nearer death than life. It pleased Our Lord
-that, searching for the remnants of our for-
mer fire, we found wood with which we
built big fires and then with many tears
begged Our Lord for mercy and forgiveness
of our sins. Every one of us pitied not only
himself, but all the others whom he saw in
the same condition.
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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/m1/80/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .