ORIGINAL NARRATIVES
OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
REPRODUCED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
General Editor, J. FRANKLIN JAMESON, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D.
DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN THE
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
Narratives of Early Virginia
Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation
Winthrop's Journal "History of New England" (2 vols.)
Narratives of Early Carolina
Narratives of Early Maryland
Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey, and Delaware
Narratives of New Netherland
Early English and French Voyages
Voyages of Samuel de Champlain
Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States
Spanish Exploration in the Southwest
Narratives of the Insurrections
Narratives of the Indian Wars
Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence
The Journal of Jaspar Danckaerts
Narratives of the Northwest
Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases
The Northmen, Columbus, and Cabot
1528-1543
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THE NARRATIVE OF ALVAR NUÑEZ
CABEÇA DE VACA
EDITED BY
FREDERICK W. HODGE
OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY
THE NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF
HERNANDO DE SOTO
BY THE GENTLEMAN OF ELVAS
EDITED BY
THEODORE H. LEWIS
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MISSISSIPPI HISTORICAL SOCIETY
THE NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF
CORONADO, BY PEDRO DE CASTAÑEDA
EDITED BY
FREDERICK W. HODGE
New York
BARNES & NOBLE, INC.
Copyright, 1907
By Charles Scribner's Sons
All rights assigned to Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1946
All rights reserved
Reprinted, 1965
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Although, in the narrative of the Gentleman of Elvas, thetranslation by Buckingham Smith has been followed, some correctionshave been made in the text, and pains have been takento set right, in accordance with the Portuguese original at theLenox Library, the native proper names, on whose interpretationin the Indian languages the identification of localities in manycases depends. If variations from page to page in the spellingof some such names are observed by the reader, they may beassumed to exist in the original.
The three narratives printed in this book are but a smallselection from among many scores; for the narratives of Spanishexplorers in the southern United States constitute an extensiveliterature. But if interest and historical importance are bothtaken into ac