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Show 58 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY after his first return to Spain, is unrivalled in the history of the world in its recital of STORY OF ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA marvelous adventure, A map AND HIS COMPANIONS, THE SURVIVORS OF THE NARVAEZ EXPEDITION may the shipwreck, captivity by Indians, his escape, and or chart has final meeting with the Spaniards on the Pacific coast. When the so-called armada, composing the expedition of Narvaez, had arrived at San Domingo, its commander remained at that port fifty days, procuring horses, previsions, and necessaries for the proper prosecution of his future explorations. While at San Domingo over one hundred and forty of his men deserted him and de las Indias Occidentales, published at Madrid in 1749. The Naufragios of Alvar Nufiez, from the edition of 1555, appears in volume i of Vedia’s Historiadores Primitivos de Indias (Madrid, ed. 1852). The letter to the Audiencia of Espafiola, ‘edited’ by Oviedo, has already been alluded to. A ‘Capitulacion que se tomé con Alvar Nufiez Cabeza de Vaca,’ dated Madrid, 18 Marzo, 1540, is found in the Colecion de Documentos Inéditos del Archivo de Indias (tomo xxiii, pp. 8-33, 1875). A Relacion by Cabeza de Vaca, briefly narrating the story of the expedition until the arrival of its survivors in Espiritu Santo bay, with his instructions as treasurer, is printed in the Colecion de Documentos de Indias, xiv, 265-279 (Madrid, 1870). The most recent Spanish edition of the more famous Relacion reprinted in the following pages forms a part of volume v of the Colecion de Libros y Documentos referentes & la Historia de America (Madrid, 1906), which also contains the Comentarios. ‘The single French translation was published as volume vii of Henri TernauxCompan’s Voyages taires form volume _ (Paris, vi. 1837) , from the edition of 1555, while the Commen- ‘In 1851 a translation of the edition of 1555 into English by (Thomas) Buck- ingham Smith, under the title The Narrative of Alvar Nuitez was published privately at Washington by George W. Riggs; Mr. Cabeza de Vaca, CAthvohuve and shortly after Smith’s death, in 1871, another edition, with many additions, was published in New York under the editorial supervision of John Gilmary Shea, and at the expense of Henry C. Murphy. It is this edition of the Narrative that is here reprinted. A paraphrase of the 1851 edition of Smith’s translation appeats in Henry Kingsley’s Tales of Old Travels (London, 1869). The chapters of W. W. H. Davis’s Spanish Conquest of New Mezxico Pa., 1869) are also a paraphrase of the same work. first fourteeD (Doylestown, Chapters xxx-xxxvi of the 1871 edition of Smith, somewhat abridged, were printed in an Old South Leaflet (Gen. Ser. No. 39, Boston, 1893). A ‘Relation of What Befell the Persons who Escaped Pamphilo lated and Historical 1867). from de Narv4ez the Disasters that Attended the Armament of Captain condensed on the Shores from and the letter published in the Countries of the North,’ Magazine (vol. xii, 141, 204, September-December, pp. by 267, Oviedo, 347; trans is printed in the The most recent English edition of the Cabeza de Vaca Relacion, trans lated from the very rare imprint of 1542 by Mrs. Fanny Bandelier, and edited, with an introduction, by her husband, Ad. F. Bandelier, was published in New York, in 1905, under the title, The Journey of Alvar Nufez Cabeza de Vaca, as one of the volumes of the ‘Trail Makers’ series.’’ . ' a been be found in the Map same call number as iN UEVA | VIZCAY. removed Case this and under book. |