6 10 135 https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/89db07831605b393fdbab21103ec05cd.tif c287a66ec77a1c3c5cfed61433d206ef 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 61 Description An account of the resource giving us the sure hope that He was going to free us and bring us to a place where we could serve Him. For myself I can say that I always had hope in his mercy and knew that He would bring me out of captivity, and I always said this to my companions. Once the Indians had left with their cured companions, we left for another place where some others were eating prickly pears. These are called the Cutalches and Malicones, which are also the names of other languages. With them were others called the Coayos and the Susolas, and from another place some called the Atayos, who were at war with the Susolas. The Atayos and the Susolas fired arrows at each other every day. Throughout the land the only thing people talked about was the marvelous deeds that God our Lord worked through us, and people came from many places asking us to cure them. After two days some Susolas came to us and asked Castillo to go cure a wounded man and other sick people, saying that among them was a man about to die. Castillo was a timid physician, especially when the cases were frightful and dangerous. He thought that his sins would sometimes prevent a successful healing. The Indians told me to go heal them, because they liked me and remembered that I had cured them at the place where we gathered nuts and they had given us nuts and hides. This had happened when I came to join the Christians. So I was obligated to go with them. Dorantes and Estebanico went with me. When I neared their huts, I saw that the sick man whom we were supposed to heal was dead, because there were many people weeping around him and his lodge was dismantled, a sign that its owner was dead. When I got to the Indian, I saw that his eyes were turned. He had no pulse and it seemed to me that he showed all the signs of being dead. Dorantes said the same thing. I removed a mat that covered him, and as best I could I beseeched our Lord to be pleased to grant him health and to grant health to all who needed it. After I made the sign of the cross over him and IIIF Item Metadata UUID d0229fe9-edb1-43e1-aca6-c144efa13470 https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/7097ac7b2623e1458ecb187e937713d9.tif 3d441ad74c3444fe06748e24309ecc3c 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 60 Description An account of the resource in which I had been. All this time I did not eat a bite nor find anything that I could eat. Since I was barefoot, my feet bled a great deal. Yet God was merciful to me, because in all this time the north wind did not blow. If it had, I could not have survived. After five days I reached a riverbank, where I found my Indians. Both they and the Christians had already assumed that I was dead, thinking that a snake had bitten me. They all were very happy to see me, especially the Christians. They told me that they had not looked for me because they had been so hungry while on the move. That night they gave me some of their prickly pears. The following day we departed and went to a place where we found many prickly pears which satisfied our great hunger. And we gave many thanks to our Lord because he always came to our aid. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO How They Brought Other Sick People to Us the Following Day The following morning many Indians gathered there, bringing five sick persons who were crippled and in a very poor condition, looking for Castillo to heal them. Each one of the sick persons offered his bow and arrows, which he accepted. At sunset he made the sign of the cross on them and commended them to God our Lord, and we all asked God as best we could, to restore their health, since He knew that that was the only way for those people to help us, so that we might escape from such a miserable life. And God was so merciful that the following morning they all awakened well and healthy. They went away as strong as if they had never been sick. This caused great astonishment among them and caused us to thank our Lord heartily for showing us his kindness ever more fully and IIIF Item Metadata UUID 6168bb43-48b3-450c-a553-14380afcec82 https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/2cf6eb143e60cec45e342acbf5b8137a.tif eb993ece0aef3043c1ffb22eafa87bc0 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 59 Description An account of the resource they had returned home after having gathered the prickly pears. They said that it was a cold land and that there were few hides. Since winter and cold weather were already beginning when we heard this, we decided to spend it with these people. Five days after we arrived, they went to look for more prickly pears, to a place where there were other peoples and languages. After five days journey with no food, because there were no prickly pears or other fruit on the way, we reached a river where we set up our lodges. Then we went to look for the fruit of certain trees, which is like the kind of lentils used for fodder. Since there are no trails in this whole land, I took a longer time than the others in this search. The people returned and I was left alone. While I was looking for them that night, I got lost. It pleased God that I should find a burning tree, by the fire of which I endured that cold night. In the morning I gathered firewood, made two firebrands and continued searching for them. And I walked this way for five days, always carrying fire and a load of firewood. I did this so that I could make more firebrands and build a fire if one went out and I found myself in a place that had no firewood. I had no other relief against the cold because I was as naked as the day I was born. At night I did the following to protect myself against the cold: I would go to the thickets in the woods near the rivers and stop there before sunset. I would dig a hole in the ground and put in it a lot of firewood from the many trees. I also would gather a lot of dried wood that had fallen from the trees, and around the hole I would build four fires crosswise. I was careful to stoke the fires from time to time. I would make some long sheaves from the straw that was available around there, to cover myself in that hole and shelter myself from the night-time cold. One night a spark fell on the straw covering me while I was sleeping and began to burn strongly. Although I jumped out of the hole right away, my hair was singed from the danger IIIF Item Metadata UUID 9e154df8-2d63-429c-aa57-12325aa8752f https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/26dc745c7a11388239802720386c3310.tif b90a68da33b22abaa2ca2fc4d872a061 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 58 Description An account of the resource trade with them. Although they are of another people and language, they understand the language of the people with whom we were. They had arrived there with their lodges that very day. Then the people offered us many prickly pears because they had heard about us and how we healed and about the wonderful works that our Lord did through us. If God had done nothing else, it would have been wonderful enough for him to have led our way through such a desolate land and to provide us with people where for a long time there had been none, and to deliver us from so many dangers and not allow us to be killed, and to feed us when we were so hungry, and to inspire those people to treat us well, as we shall explain later. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE How We Cured Some Sick People The very night we arrived, some Indians came to Castillo telling him that their heads hurt a great deal, and begging him to cure them. After he made the sign of the cross on them and commended them to God, they immediately said that all their pain was gone. They went to their lodges and brought many prickly pears and a piece of venison, which we did not recognize. Since news of this spread among them, many other sick people came to him that night to be healed. Each one brought a piece of venison and we had so much we did not know where to put the meat. We thanked God heartily because his mercy and kindness grew every day. After the healings were finished, they began to dance and perform their areítos and festivities until sunrise. The merrymaking caused by our arrival lasted three days. At the end of the three days, we asked them about the country ahead and about the people that we would find in it and what food was available in it. They replied that throughout that land there were many prickly pears, but that their season was over, and that there were no people, since IIIF Item Metadata UUID d274dbf3-8477-493c-adbc-d508716ddc1a https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/a24fda170010b5c42c6df1dcbc63ed4e.tif dbafad5f849199e5a659d5be74b2831c 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 57 Description An account of the resource They showed us their clothing and weapons and told us their boat was stranded there. This is the fifth boat and the one that had not yet been accounted for. We have already told how the Governor's boat was carried out to sea. The one with the Purser and the friars had been seen stranded on the coast, and Esquivel told how they met their end. We have already mentioned the two boats Castillo, Dorantes and I were in, and how they sank near the Isle of Misfortune. CHAPTER TWENTY How We Escaped Two days after we moved, we commended ourselves to God our Lord and fled, confident that, although the season was near its end and the prickly pears were almost gone, there would be enough of them left to allow us to march a good distance. Going on our way that day, greatly fearing that the Indians would follow us, we saw some smoke. Going towards it, we arrived there after sundown. There we saw an Indian who fled without waiting for us when he saw us coming. We sent the black man after him, and when the Indian saw that he was going alone, he waited for him. The black man told him we were looking for the people who were making that smoke. He replied that the lodges were near there and that he would guide us there. So we followed him and he ran ahead to announce that we were coming. At sunset we saw the lodges, and at a distance of two crossbow-shots before we reached the lodges, we found four Indians waiting for us. They received us well. We told them in the language of the Mariames that we were looking for them. They indicated that they were pleased with our company and took us to their lodges. Dorantes and the black man stayed in a medicine man Is lodge and Castillo and I in another. These people, called the Avavares, speak another language. They are the ones that would take bows to our Indians and IIIF Item Metadata UUID 3f090a84-8356-4810-a1bf-c6fbcf67dc48 https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/ba04cf429442622a832149d96c4d8dd4.tif 55bcc629b3044c603f72b51224decad9 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 56 Description An account of the resource I would wait for them in the prickly pear fields until the time of the full moon. That day was the first of September and the first day of the new moon. I told them that if they did not appear at the time we agreed upon, I would go away without them. So we left, each with his own Indians. I was with mine until the thirteenth day of the moon, and I had decided to flee to other Indians once the moon was full. On the thirteenth day of the month, Andrés Dorantes and Estebanico came to where I was and told me how Castillo was nearby with other Indians called the Anagados. They told me that they had had great difficulties and had gotten lost and that on the following day our Indians had moved towards where Castillo was. They were going to Join the others and become friends, since they had been at war until then. In this manner we found Castillo. The whole time that we ate the prickly pears we were thirsty. To quench our thirst we drank prickly pear Juice. We squeezed the juice into a hole we made in the ground, and when it was filled we drank until we were satisfied. The juice is sweet and has the color of syrup. The Indians do it this way because they have no vessels. There are many kinds of prickly pears, some of them very good, although they all seemed good to me, since my hunger never allowed me the luxury of being selective or thinking about which were better. The great majority of these people drink rain water collected in various places. Although there are rivers, the people do not settle in one place, since they do not have any known or reliable sources of water. Throughout this country there are very large and beautiful pasturelands, with good grazing for cattle, and I think that it would be a very fruitful land if it were cultivated and inhabited by civilized people. We did not see any mountains the entire time we were there. Those Indians told us that there were others further away towards the coast called the Camones, who had killed all the men that came in Penalosa and Tellez's boat. They said that the men were so weak that, while they were being killed, they did not fight back, and so the Indians finished them off. IIIF Item Metadata UUID 65d31d9a-be45-4117-bb67-db3d01a3503d https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/ddfa83077ecf2fa1ed95990190454e35.tif 77596a9884d5a27cb68d5d0b770c8157 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 55 Description An account of the resource that they have more and better meat than cattle here in Spain. From the small ones the Indians make blankets to cover themselves, and from the large ones they make shoes and shields. These animals come from the North all the way to the coast of Florida, where they scatter, crossing the land for more than four hundred leagues. All along their range, through the valleys where they roam, people who live near there descend to live off them, and take inland a great quantity of their hides. CHAPTER NINETEEN How the Indians Left Us After I had been with the Christians for six months waiting to carry out our plan, the Indians went to gather prickly pears, that grew about thirty leagues from there. When we were about to flee, the Indians we were with fought among themselves over a woman, hitting one another with fists and sticks and striking one another on the head. They were so angry that each one took his lodge and went off by himself, making it necessary for us Christians who were there to leave also. In no way were we able to come together until the following year. During this time my life was miserable because I was so hungry and so mistreated by the Indians. I tried to escape from my masters three times, but each time they went after me intending to kill me. God our Lord through his great mercy protected and sheltered me from them. When prickly pear season came again, we came together in the same place, since we had already plotted and picked the day we were to escape. On that day the Indians left us and each one of us went his own way. I told my companions that IIIF Item Metadata UUID a90a05c3-1336-4fbf-9ac7-68ffcf9767de https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/bb31b6243698172bb880cd40ecafeeee.tif 626b14a0b2b5042f4c375707006b5a03 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 54 Description An account of the resource very troublesome. To protect ourselves from them, we would build many fires around the people, using rotten, damp firewood so that it would not burn well but produce a lot of smoke. But this protection caused another affliction, because all night long our eyes watered from the smoke in them. On top of this we had to withstand the great heat from the fires. We would go out to sleep on the coast, but if we could ever get to sleep, the Indians would awaken us with a beating to go and rekindle the fires. The Indians of the interior protect themselves in another way that is even less bearable: they walk around with firebrands in their hands, burning the fields and the woods around them to drive off the mosquitoes and to drive out from under the ground lizards and other things they eat. They also kill deer by encircling them with fire. They also do this to destroy the animals' grazing areas, so that they will be forced to go where they want them, since the Indians never make camp except in places having water and firewood. Sometimes they carry all these things and go look for deer, which ordinarily are found where there is no water or firewood. On the day they arrive, they kill deer and other things and use up all the water and firewood for cooking and for building fires to protect themselves from mosquitoes. They wait until the following day to gather things for their return. When they depart, they are so bitten by mosquitoes that they appear to have St. Lazarus' disease. In this manner they satisfy their hunger two or three times a year, at such a great cost, as I have said. Having endured this, I can affirm that no other affliction suffered in the world can equal this. In this country there are many deer and other animals and birds of the kind I have already mentioned. Cows come here; I have seen them three or four times and eaten them. It seems to me they are about the size of the ones in Spain. They have two small horns, like Moorish cattle, and very long hair, like a fine blanket made from the wool of merino sheep. Some are brownish and others black. It seems to me IIIF Item Metadata UUID 9227755c-4968-4fa3-95ab-ca592bd3ea02 https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/6ed7142c5d838ffbb2006de2e60fed23.tif ecfd9e9a5497129eb7d5a365fdd912fc 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 53 Description An account of the resource to dry those roots that they eat. At dawn they begin to dig and carry firewood and water to their dwellings and to take care of other important needs. Most of these people are big thieves, because even if they are generous to one another, if one turns his head, his own son or father takes what he can. They tell a lot of lies and are drunkards-for this they drink a certain thing. They are so used to running that they can run from morning to night chasing deer without resting or becoming tired. This way they kill many of them, because they pursue them until the deer tire. Sometimes they take them alive. Their lodges are made of mats placed on four arches. They carry them on their backs and move every two or three days to search for food. They plant nothing that would be of any use to them. They are a very merry people; no matter how hungry they may be, they still dance and have their festivities and areítos. The best season for them is when they eat prickly pears, because they are not hungry then and spend all their time dancing. They eat them night and day. During this entire season, they squeeze them, open them and set them out to dry. After they are dried they put them in baskets like figs, and keep them to eat on the way back. They grind the peelings into a powder. Many times while we were with these people, we went three or four days without eating because there was no food. They tried to cheer us up by telling us that we should not be sad, because soon there would be prickly pears. We would eat a lot of them and drink their Juice and our bellies would swell, and we would be very contented and happy and not be hungry. They told us this five or six months before prickly pear season. We had to wait the six months and at the right time, we went to eat prickly pears. We found throughout that land very many mosquitoes-three kinds of them. They are awful and annoying, and for most of the summer IIIF Item Metadata UUID 24e4791d-9cf4-4c09-b022-a899e77bc605 https://ulomeka2.ul.txstate.edu/cabeza/files/original/943081bf1d28c022fabad195298c2e1c.tif 37dd35b44af01af8e89386e48892c2f8 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 52 Description An account of the resource they buy wives from their enemies, each one paying the price of the best bow he has and two arrows. If a man does not have a bow, he gives a net up to one fathom wide and another fathom long. They kill their own children and buy the children of strangers. A marriage lasts only as long as they are happy, and for the slightest reason they dissolve the marriage. Dorantes stayed with these people and fled after a few days. Castillo and Estebanico went inland on the mainland, to the Yguazes. All these people are archers and well built, although not as tall as the ones we left behind. They pierce their nipples and their lips. Their principal food is roots of two or three kinds, for which they search throughout the land. The roots are very bad and cause people who eat them to swell up. It takes two days to roast them and many of them are very bitter. On top of this, they are very difficult to dig. Those people are so hungry that they can not do without them, and go two or three leagues looking for them. Sometimes they kill some deer, and sometimes they catch fish. But this is so little and their hunger so great that they eat spiders, ant eggs, worms, lizards, salamanders, snakes and poisonous vipers. They eat dirt and wood and whatever they can get, as well as deer excrement and other things I will not talk about. My observations lead me to believe that they would eat stones if there were any in that land. They keep the bones of the fish, snakes, and other things they eat to grind them into a powder which they eat. Among these people men carry no loads, nor anything heavy. This is done by women and old people, who are the people they least esteem. They are not as fond of their children as the ones mentioned above. Some of them sin against nature. The women are worked very hard with many tasks, and out of the twenty-four hours in a day, they rest only six. 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