The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1891 volume contains
two sixteenth-century accounts, one Spanish and one German, of the
exploration and conquest of the basin of the River Plate, which
includes parts of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay.
The account of Ulrich Schmidt was written as a reply to that of
Alvar Nu ez Cabeza de Vaca, the deposed governor of the area, and
presents a radically different version of events. Both narratives
reveal that the early Spanish conquerors of South America were
riven by dissent and ambition.
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