Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition

Introduction by Ilan Stavans; Revised and Annotated Translation by Harold AugenbraumIntroductionSuggested Further ReadingChronologyIllustrations: Facsimile of the Title Page of the 1542 Edition; The Route of Cabeza de VacaA Note on the TextChronicle of the Narvaez Expedition by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de VacaPrologueChapter One: When the Fleet Left Spain and the Men Who Went with ItChapter Two: How the Governor Came to Xagua and Brought a Pilot with HimChapter Three: How We Arrived in FloridaChapter Four: How We Went to the InteriorChapter Five: How the Governor Left the ShipsChapter Six: How We Got to ApalacheChapter Seven: The Lay of the LandChapter Eight: How We Left AuteChapter Nine: How We Left the Bay of HorsesChapter Ten: On the Skirmish We Had with the IndiansChapter Eleven: What Happened to Lope de Oviedo with Some IndiansChapter Twelve: How the Indians Brought Us FoodChapter Thirteen: How We Learned About Other ChristiansChapter Fourteen: How Four Christians DepartedChapter Fifteen: What Happened to Us on the Isle of MisfortuneChapter Sixteen: How the Christians Left the IslandChapter Seventeen: How the Indians Arrived with Andrés Dorantes and Castillo and EstavanicoChapter Eighteen: Esquiviel's Account, Related by FigueroaChapter Nineteen: How the Indians Separated UsChapter Twenty: How We FledChapter Twenty-One: How We Cured Several Sick PeopleChapter Twenty-Two: How the Following Day They Brought Other Sick PeopleChapter Twenty-Three: How We Departed After Eating the DogsChapter Twenty-Four: The Customs of the Indians of That LandChapter Twenty-Five: How Ready the Indians Are with WeaponsChapter Twenty-Six: On Nations and LanguagesChapter Twenty-Seven: How We Moved and Were ReceivedChapter Twenty-Eight: On Another New CustomChapter Twenty-Nine: How They Steal from One AnotherChapter Thirty: How the Manner of Reception ChangedChapter Thirty-One: How We Followed the Corn TrailChapter Thirty-Two: How They Gave Us Hearts of DeerChapter Thirty-Three: How We Saw Traces of ChristiansChapter Thirty-Four: How I Sent for the ChristiansChapter Thirty-Five: How Well the Chief Magistrate Received Us on the Night of Our ArrivalChapter Thirty-Six: How We Had Churches Built in That LandChapter Thirty-Seven: What Occurred When I Wished to ReturnChapter Thirty-Eight: What Happened to the Others Who Went to the IndiesColophonNotes