CHAPTER XXVI. Of the Tribes and Their Languages

Chapters in this book

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