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APPENDIX B. The American Cultures Described in Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios

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  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Illustrations IX
  4. Editor's Foreword XI
  5. Acknowledgments XIII
  6. Introduction XV
  7. PROLOGUE. To His Sacred, Caesarean, Catholic Majesty 3
  8. CHAPTER I. Which Recounts When the Fleet Sailed, and the Officers and Men Who Went in It 5
  9. CHAPTER II. How the Governor Arrived at the Port of Jagua and Brought a Pilot with Him 10
  10. CHAPTER III. How We Reached Florida 11
  11. CHAPTER IV. How We Marched Inland 13
  12. CHAPTER V. How the Governor Left the Ships 17
  13. CHAPTER VI. How We Reached Apalachee 21
  14. CHAPTER VII. Of the Manner of the Land 22
  15. CHAPTER VIII. How We Departed from Aute 27
  16. CHAPTER IX. How We Departed from the Bay of Horses 31
  17. CHAPTER X. Of the Fight We Had with the Indians 35
  18. CHAPTER XI. Of What Befell Lope de Oviedo with Some Indians 39
  19. CHAPTER XII. How the Indians Brought Us Food 41
  20. CHAPTER XIII. How We Had News of Other Christians 44
  21. CHAPTER XIV. How Four Christians Departed 46
  22. CHAPTER XV. What Befell Us in the Isle of Ill Fortune 49
  23. CHAPTER XVI. How the Christians Departed from the Isle of Ill Fortune 51
  24. CHAPTER XVII. How the Indians Came and Brought Andrés Dorantes and Castillo and Estebanico 55
  25. CHAPTER XVIII. Of the Report Given to Figueroa by Esquivel 59
  26. CHAPTER XIX. How the Indians Separated Us 64
  27. CHAPTER XX. How We Escaped 66
  28. CHAPTER XXI. How We Cured Some Sufferers There 68
  29. CHAPTER XXII. How They Brought Us More Sick Folk Next Day 71
  30. CHAPTER XXIII. How We Departed after Eating the Dogs 77
  31. CHAPTER XXIV. Of the Customs of the Indians of That Land 79
  32. CHAPTER XXV. Of the Indians’ Readiness to Use Arms 82
  33. CHAPTER XXVI. Of the Tribes and Their Languages 84
  34. CHAPTER XXVII. How We Moved and Were Well Received 86
  35. CHAPTER XXVIII. Of Another New Custom 89
  36. CHAPTER XXIX. How Some Indians Robbed the Others 92
  37. CHAPTER XXX. How the Custom of Receiving Us Changed 97
  38. CHAPTER XXXI. How We Followed the Maize Road 103
  39. CHAPTER XXXII. How They Gave Us Hearts of Deer 106
  40. CHAPTER XXXIII. How We Saw Traces of Christians 110
  41. CHAPTER XXXIV. How I Sent for the Christians 112
  42. CHAPTER XXXV. How the Mayor Received Us Well on the Night We Arrived 116
  43. CHAPTER XXXVI. How We Caused Churches to Be Built in That Land 119
  44. CHAPTER XXXVII. Of What Befell When I Decided to Return 121
  45. CHAPTER XXXVIII. What Befell the Others Who Went to the Indies 125
  46. APPENDIX A. Note on the Text 129
  47. APPENDIX B. The American Cultures Described in Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios 133
  48. Notes 139
  49. Select Bibliography 147
  50. Index 151
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