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| Introduction | xiii |
| Bibliography | xli |
| Voyage of Ulrich Schmidt | 1 |
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| The Commentaries of Alvar NuÑez Cabeza de Vaca:— |
| Chap. I.—Of the Commentaries of Alvar NuÑez Cabeza de Vaca | 95 |
| Chap. II.—How we departed from the island of Cabo Verde | 98 |
| Chap. III.—Which treats of how the governor arrived with his armada at the island of Santa Catalina, in Brazil, and disembarked his troops there | 100 |
| Chap. IV.—How nine Christians came to the island | 101 |
| Chap. V.—How the governor hastened his journey | 104 |
| Chap. VI.—How the governor and his people advanced into the interior | 106 |
| Chap. VII.—Which treats of what happened to the governor and his people in his journey, and of the nature of the land | 108 |
| Chap. VIII.—Of the troubles that the governor and his people underwent on their way, and of a kind of pine tree, and of the fruits of that land | 112 |
| Chap. IX.—How the governor and his people found themselves starving, and appeased their hunger with worms from reeds | 114 |
| Chap. X.—Of the fear the Indians had of the horses | 117 |
| Chap. XI.—How the governor navigated the river YguazÚ in canoes, and how, in order to avoid a cataract of that river, he carried the canoes one league by hand | 119 |
| Chap. XII.—Which treats of the rafts that were made to carry the sick | 122 |
| Chap. XIII.—How the governor arrived at the Ascension, where the Spaniards lived whom he had come to relieve | 124 |
| Chap. XIV.—How the Spaniards, left behind through sickness, on the river Pequiry, arrived at the town of Ascension | 126 |
| Chap. XV.—How the governor, wishing to re-people Buenos Ayres, sent reinforcements to those who had come there in the ship ‘Capitana’ | 127 |
| Chap. XVI.—How the natives kill and eat their enemies | 129 |
| Chap. XVII.—Of the peace which the governor concluded with the Indian Agazes | 131 |
| Chap. XVIII.—Of the complaints addressed to the governor by the pobladores against the officers of His Majesty | 134 |
| Chap. XIX.—How the governor received complaints against the Indian GuaycurÚs | 135Chap. LXXXI.—How they wished to kill a sheriff who had made them a requisition | 253 |
| Chap. LXXXII.—How the insurgents gave the Indians permission to eat human flesh | 254 |
| Chap. LXXXIII.—How the insurgents had to write to His Majesty and send him a report | 256 |
| Chap. LXXXIV.—How they gave arsenic three times to the governor during the voyage | 259 |
| Narrative of Hernando de Ribera | 263 |
| Index | 271 |
