1 10 10 https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/de03fc07bc2f16678562e2928ac3bfdb.tif e1e665c528afc79fb845f586ee001d8d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relacion IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 48a188da-f99f-4436-b5cd-f5df7e4110a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relación - page 102 Description An account of the resource that the Indians had come out to greet them with crosses in their hands and had taken them to their houses and given them part of what they had. They slept with the Indians there that night. Stunned by this new manner, and because the Indians told them that their security was guaranteed, Alcaraz ordered that they not be harmed. Then the Christians departed. May it be God our Lord's will, through his infinite mercy, that in Your Majesty's lifetime and under your dominion and lordship, these peoples may come to be truly and quite willingly subject to the true Lord who created and redeemed them. We are certain that this will be so and that Your Majesty will be the one to carry it out. This will not be so difficult to achieve because throughout the two thousand leagues that we traveled overland and by boat on the sea, and during the ten months that we constantly traveled the land after we were out of captivity, we did not find any sacrifices or idolatry. During this time we traveled across from one sea to the other, and as far as we could carefully determine, the land may be about two hundred leagues across at its widest. We understand that on the southern coast there are pearls and much wealth and that the best and richest things are near that coast. We remained in the municipality of San Miguel until May 15th. The reason we stayed such a long time was that the city of Compostela, where Governor Nuño de Guzman resided, was one hundred leagues away, and the entire stretch is desolate and filled with enemies. Some men had to go with us, including twenty horsemen who accompanied us for forty leagues. From that point onward, six Christians who had five hundred enslaved Indians with them, went with us. When we arrived in Compostela, the Governor received us very well. He gave us some of his clothing, which I could not wear for many days, and we were able to sleep only on the floor. Ten or twelve days later we set out for Mexico City. All along the way we were treated well by Christians. Many of them would come out to the roads to see us, and they thanked God for having delivered us from so many perils. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cabeza de Vaca IIIF Item Metadata UUID e336d160-bcc2-4dc6-adcc-aabd0974a4db https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/126691dafd47e2d3120449697fff587f.tif 8ee63cf1c9880a918fe29c09d64dc9ec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relacion IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 48a188da-f99f-4436-b5cd-f5df7e4110a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relación - page 103 Description An account of the resource We arrived in Mexico City on a Sunday, one day before the eve of St. James' day. There the Viceroy' and the Marqués del Valle treated us very well and welcomed us very graciously. They gave us clothing and offered us everything they had. On St. James' day there were festivities with tournaments and bullfights. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN What Happened When I Wanted to Leave After we rested in Mexico City for two months, I wanted to return to these kingdoms. As the ship was about to set sail in October, a storm came and grounded the ship, and it was lost. Seeing this, I decided to wait until winter was over, since it is a season of rough weather for sailing. During Lent, when winter had passed, Andrés Dorantes and I left Mexico City for Veracruz to board our ship. We waited there until Palm Sunday, when we boarded. We remained on board more than two weeks waiting for the wind. The ship we were on was taking on a great deal of water. I left it and went to others that were about to sail, but Dorantes remained aboard that ship. On the tenth of April three ships sailed out of the port, and we traveled together for 150 leagues. On the way, two ships were taking on a lot of water. One night we got lost from this convoy because their pilots and sailing masters, as it later seemed, did not dare continue onward with their ships and returned to the port from which they had sailed. We did not notice this or have any more news of them and continued our voyage. On the fourth of May we arrived in the port of Havana, which is on the island of Cuba, where we waited for the two other ships until the second of June, thinking they would come. Then we left there, greatly fearing IIIF Item Metadata UUID 86a056d3-db72-469f-ba77-741905d92e34 https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/81d087fd5c6c0d979460a2a7ef3aa525.tif e0b2b3a4fb71ea19ca91a11ab6b08090 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relacion IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 48a188da-f99f-4436-b5cd-f5df7e4110a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relación - page 104 Description An account of the resource that we would encounter Frenchmen, who several days earlier had captured three of our ships. When we arrived at the island of Bermuda, a storm overtook us, of the sort that often overtakes all who pass through there, according to those who frequently sail that area. All night long we feared we were lost. It pleased God for the storm to end in the morning, and we continued our voyage. Twenty-nine days after our departure from Havana, we had sailed 1, 100 leagues, the distance given from there to the settlement of the Azores. The following day, passing the island named Corvo, we met a French ship. At noon she began to pursue us, hauling with her a caravel she had captured from the Portuguese, and gave us chase. That afternoon we saw another nine sails, but they were so far away that we were unable to tell if they were Portuguese or if they belonged with those who were pursuing us. At nightfall the French vessel was a cannon-shot away from our ship. After dark we took another course to elude her. Since she was so close to us, they saw us and fired towards us; this happened three or four times. They could have captured us had they wanted to, but they were leaving it for morning. It pleased God that in the morning the French ship and ours were close together and surrounded by the nine sails I said I had seen the previous afternoon. We recognized that they were from the Portuguese navy, and I thanked God for having been able to escape hardships on land and dangers on the sea. Once she realized that it was the Portuguese navy, the French vessel released the caravel she had captured, which had a cargo of blacks. The French ship had taken the Portuguese caravel along so that we would think that they were Portuguese and wait for them. When the French released the Portuguese vessel, they told her sailing master and pilot that we were French and part of their convoy. When they said this they put out sixty oars and fled by oar and by sail so swiftly it was unbelievable. The caravel that she released went to the galleon and told the captain that our ship and the other one were French. When our ship IIIF Item Metadata UUID 1627580f-1124-4c13-b9d0-5c3fb517464e https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/f71e453989951db5e31136b6e24c4798.tif feff6acb775cffc13d52f2eb0a8b88f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relacion IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 48a188da-f99f-4436-b5cd-f5df7e4110a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relación - page 105 Description An account of the resource reached the galleon and the whole fleet saw that we were approaching them, they prepared for battle and came upon us, certain that we were French. When they were near, we hailed them. They discovered that we were friendly and realized that they had been deceived by the escaped privateer, who said that we were French and part of their convoy. So they sent four caravels after him. When the galleon approached us after we had saluted them, Captain Diego de Silveira asked us where we were coming from and what cargo we were carrying. We replied that we were coming from New Spain and carried silver and gold. He asked us how much, and the sailing master responded that we were taking about 300,000 castellanos. The captain replied, "By my faith, you're very rich, but you've got a very poor vessel and very poor artillery. That renegade French dog, the son of a bitch, lost a tasty morsel, by God! Now since you've escaped him, follow me and don't separate yourselves from me, because with God's help I'll take you to Castile." Shortly thereafter the caravels that had followed the Frenchman returned, since It seemed to them that he was going too fast. Furthermore, they did not want to leave the fleet, which was escorting three ships loaded with spices. So we arrived at the island of Terceira, where we rested for two weeks, taking on supplies and waiting for another ship that was coming from India with its cargo and was part of the convoy along with the three ships that were being escorted by the fleet. At the end of the two weeks, we left there with the fleet and reached the port of Lisbon on the ninth of August, eve of St. Lawrence's day, in the year 1537. Because what I say above in this account is the truth, I sign it with my name, Cabeza de Vaca. The account from which this was taken was signed with his name and bore his coat of arms. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT What Happened to the Others Who Went to the Indies IIIF Item Metadata UUID 18541cad-28e2-4e19-972d-ec55dea70173 https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/601b73c0583ffd8ec4b2b2e31d21851c.tif 0ba8baf722ec31d66182aa340def56b9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relacion IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 48a188da-f99f-4436-b5cd-f5df7e4110a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relación - page 106 Description An account of the resource Since I have given an account of everything above concerning the voyage and the entrance into and the departure from the land until my return to these kingdoms, I wish likewise to furnish a record and account of what the people and the ships who remained there did. I have not mentioned this above because we knew nothing about them until we had come out. We found many of them in New Spain and others here in Castile. From these people we learned what happened, how it happened and how things ended. We left the three ships-because the other one had already been lost on the breakers-which remained at great risk, with little food and up to one hundred persons on board, among them ten married women. One of them had told the Governor many things that happened on the voyage before they happened. When he wanted to enter the land, she told him not to, because she believed that none of those who went with him would leave that land. She believed that if anyone should get out, God would perform very great miracles for him, but she believed that few or none would escape. The Govemor then answered her that he and all those who were penetrating the country with him were going to fight and conquer many very strange lands and peoples. He said that he was very sure that in conquering them many would die, but that the survivors would be fortunate and would be very rich, since he had heard that there were many riches in that land. The Govemor went further and asked her to tell him who had told her the things she had said about the past and the future. She replied that in Castile a Moorish woman from Hornachos had told her. She had told us this before we left Castile, and the entire voyage went the way she predicted. After the Governor left Carvallo, a native of Cuenca de Huete, as his lieutenant and captain of all the ships and people that he left there, IIIF Item Metadata UUID 0d9b31da-9e9c-47d6-9765-5b7d592c9273 https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/90e6d84e0942f88ea75b95ca9622275d.tif ee927df8af82c75f92ae4b3abf61a997 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relacion IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 48a188da-f99f-4436-b5cd-f5df7e4110a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relación - page 107 Description An account of the resource we departed from them. The Governor had given them orders that they should then all assemble in the ships and continue their journey directly in the direction of Panuco, always sailing along the coast and looking for the harbor the best way they could, so that, once they had found it, they could anchor in it and wait for us. At the time they were assembling on the ships, they say that everyone there clearly heard that woman tell the other women, whose husbands were going inland and exposing themselves to such great danger, that they should not count on their returning and ought to look for someone else to marry as she intended to do. She did so, and she and the other women married and cohabited with the men who remained on the ships. After they departed from there, the ships sailed and followed their course, but did not find the harbor and turned back. Five leagues below where we had landed they found the harbor which stretched seven or eight leagues inland. It was the same one we had explored, where we had found the boxes from Castile mentioned above, containing the bodies of the men who were Christians. In this harbor and along this coast, the three ships, the brig and the other one that came from Havana went looking for us for nearly a year. Since they did not find us, they proceeded to New Spain. This harbor that we are talking about is the best in the world, stretching inland for a distance of seven or eight leagues. It is six fathoms deep at the entrance and five fathoms deep near land, with a fine sandy bottom. Within it there are no rough seas or strong storms, and it can accommodate many ships. There is a great quantity of fish in it. It is 100 leagues from Havana, a town of Christians in Cuba, on a north-south axis with this town. Here the winds are always fair and ships come and go from one place to the other in four days, with the wind on the quarter. IIIF Item Metadata UUID 11a615c0-0439-4143-9196-33766343d85a https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/2eb118573e82d7dbd0fe5d5bd8934751.tif b6a09f0492f4919394d4539e96ee1aac Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relacion IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 48a188da-f99f-4436-b5cd-f5df7e4110a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relación - page 108 Description An account of the resource Since I have given an account of the ships, it will be fitting for me to tell who are the people whom our Lord was pleased to deliver from these afflictions and where in these kingdoms they are from. The first is Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, a native of Salamanca and son of Doctor Castillo and Doña Aldonza Maldonado. The second is Andrés Dorantes, son of Pablo Dorantes, a native of Béjar and resident of Gibraleón. The third is Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, son of Francisco de Vera and grandson of Pedro de Vera, who conquered the Canary Islands; his mother was named Doña Teresa Cabeza de Vaca, a native of Jerez de la Frontera. The fourth is named Estebanico; he is a black Arab and a native of Azamor. I give thanks. IIIF Item Metadata UUID 096f59d0-24be-4b4e-88ff-0697aa8aa9dd https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/fe63424f32effd673efac0b65d029ff4.tif 0fc04fa2fde918dc36dd34ad18d0aac6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relacion IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 48a188da-f99f-4436-b5cd-f5df7e4110a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relación - page 109 Description An account of the resource (In the original text, the table of contents appears at the end of the narrative.) <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-3">Proem</a> <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-5">Chapter One</a>: Which Tells When the Fleet Sailed, and of the Officers and People Who Went with It <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-8">Chapter Two</a>: How the Governor Came to the Port of Xagua and Brought a Pilot with Him <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-9">Chapter Three</a>: How We Arrived in Florida <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-10">Chapter Four</a>: How We Entered the Land <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-14">Chapter Five</a>: How the Governor Left the Ships <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-17">Chapter Six</a>: How We Entered Apalachee <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-18">Chapter Seven</a>: What the Land is Like <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-23">Chapter Eight</a>: How We Left Aute <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-26">Chapter Nine</a>: How We Left the Bay of Horses <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-29">Chapter Ten</a>: Of Our Skirmish with the Indians <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-33">Chapter Eleven</a>: What Happened to Lope de Oviedo with Some Indians <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-34">Chapter Twelve</a>: How the Indians Brought Us Food <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-37">Chapter Thirteen</a>: How We Found Out about Other Christians <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-38">Chapter Fourteen</a>: How Four Christians Departed <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-41">Chapter Fifteen</a>: What Happened to Us in the Village of Misfortune <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-43">Chapter Sixteen</a>: How Some Christians Left the Isle of Misfortune <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-46">Chapter Seventeen</a>: How the Indians Came and Brought Andrés Dorantes and Castillo and Estebanico IIIF Item Metadata UUID 7719d5ba-6011-453e-adbe-0759784a8227 https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/62a2d90dfe9d937a940a004658d6b8c0.tif 74c2d8003dd9ec4af0737e519a838392 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource La Relación - page 110 Description An account of the resource <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-50">Chapter Eighteen</a>: How He Told Esquivel's Story <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-55">Chapter Nineteen</a>: How the Indians Left Us <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-57">Chapter Twenty</a>: How We Escaped <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-58">Chapter Twenty-One</a>: How We Cured Some Sick People <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-60">Chapter Twenty-Two</a>: How They Brought Other Sick People to Us the Following Day <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-66">Chapter Twenty-Three</a>: How We Left after Having Eaten the Dogs <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-67">Chapter Twenty-Four</a>: About the Customs of the Indians of That Land <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-69">Chapter Twenty-Five</a>: How the Indians Are Skilled with a Weapon <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-71">Chapter Twenty-Six</a>: About the Peoples and Languages <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-72">Chapter Twenty-Seven</a>: How We Moved On and Were Welcomed <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-75">Chapter Twenty-Eight</a>: About Another New Custom <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-78">Chapter Twenty-Nine</a>: How They Stole from One Another <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-82">Chapter Thirty</a>: How the Custom of Welcoming Us Changed <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-87">Chapter Thirty-One</a>: How We Followed the Corn Route <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-90">Chapter Thirty-Two</a>: How They Gave Us Deer Hearts <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-94">Chapter Thirty-Three</a>: How We Saw Traces of Christians <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-95">Chapter Thirty-Four</a>: How I Sent for the Christians <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-98">Chapter Thirty-Five</a>: How the Mayor Received Us Well the Night We Arrived IIIF Item Metadata UUID c39e8d7e-a165-4d52-875a-cf9371b7de37 https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/93588cb56f4f4d71135990766418cdbe.tif f12bbedbc5a1fd9c2711797ac93750e0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relacion IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 48a188da-f99f-4436-b5cd-f5df7e4110a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource La Relación - page 111 Description An account of the resource <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-101">Chapter Thirty-Six</a>: How We Had Them Build Churches in That Land <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-103">Chapter Thirty-Seven</a>: What Happened When I Wanted to Leave <a href="/cabeza/exhibits/show/cabeza-de-vaca/relacion/la-relaci--n---p-105">Chapter Thirty-Eight</a>: What Happened to the Others Who Went to the Indies IIIF Item Metadata UUID d1e3ce65-afe5-470b-a1b7-d8600403c70e