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This is a new edition of the volume first published in 1891.
Translated for the Hakluyt Society, and with notes and an
introduction, by Luis L. Dominguez, this volume presents the
accounts of the first two historians who wrote on the conquest of
the Rio de la Plata, which took place in the reign of Charles V,
King of Spain and Emperor of Germany. The first of these was a
German, a native of Straubing, in Bavaria, whose name was Ulrich
Schmidt. Schmidt published a narrative of his voyage under the
title "Warhafftige und liebliche Beschreibung etclieher furnemen
Indianischen Landschafften und Insulen, die vormals in keiner
Chronicken gedacht, und erstlich in der schiffart Ulrici Schmidts
von Straubingen, mit grosser gefahr erkundigt, und von ihm selber
auffs fleissigst beschrieben und dargethan." The first part of this
volume is the book translated into English, for the first time,
from the original German, and now published by the Hakluyt Society.
The second was a Spaniard, native of Jerez de la Frontera in
Andalusia, named Alvar Nunez, better known by the surname which he
took from his mother, Dona Teresa Cabeza de Vaca. Nunez published a
narrative of the events that had happened to him during his term of
office, viz., from 1541 to 1544. This record, the first published
on the conquest of the Rio de la Plata and Paraguai, appeared in
Valladolid in 1555, under the general title "Relacion y Comentarios
de Alcar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, de lo acaecido en las dos jornadas
que hizo a las Indias. The Relacion refers to his adventures in
Florida, and was first published in 1542,1 while the Comentarios
appeared as a second part of the new edition of his voyages under
the title just mentioned. This is the second book contained in the
present volume.
In 1526 Carlos I of Spain granted Panfilo de Narvaez a license to
claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States. Panfilo de
Narvaez set sail in 1527 to conquer and settle present day Florida.
Setting out with a crew of approximately 600 members ultimately
only four members would survive the ill-fated expedition. The
journey would take these four survivors from Spain to Hispaniola
and Cuba and then onto Florida. Sailing through a hurricane and
other storms the expedition would finally land near Tampa Bay.
Suffering from Indian attacks and the effects of poor food and
disease the crew, of which there was now only eighty, decided to
sail from Florida to Mexico. In 1536, the four survivors-Alvar
Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Andres
Dorantes de Carranza, and his enslaved Moor Estevanico-finally
managed to rejoin Spanish countrymen in present-day Mexico City.
Upon returning to Spain Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca would receive
considerable notoriety for his published account of the ordeal.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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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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