University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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I THE JOURNEY OF ALVAR NUNEZ CAREZA OE VACA I.VJ.:J6) Tran, laird b, MNM K MU.1.II.K . . . But they advi- -d me to keep it --. r.-t I plot to ewa|w 1 from the They I the linlian-l are a very merry people, and e en when Indian- le-t they wnuld kill me forthwith, and that to avoid thi it a- lami-hed do not ea- to dam-e and -elehrate their feasts and cere- nrtrsary to remain ith them for -i month ' longer, after which time moniaU. Thiii Ix-l time- are when tumas I (irirkly pear-l are ripe, tliev Hiinld remove to amitliei -ertioti iii order to eat prirkly pear . hei an-e then they have plenty to eat and spend the time in dancing I hex- are a fruit of the -i e of ej:n-. red and lilai k and ta-te very good. and eating day or night . . . Y r three month- the -nlci-t upon them e rlnively. eating nothing S O

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N 1528 Cabeza de Vaca was shipwrecked on the Texas coast. For six years he and three companions existed in the re- gion, some of the time as slaves, again as medicine men, making excursions with In- dians to eat tunas, the apples of the prickly pear. They were the first Europeans to put foot on the soil of Texas. Wandering west in 1 536 they met fellow Spaniards near the Gulf of California. Almost immediately, it seems, Cabeza de Vaca wrote the Narrative of his adventures. It was published in Spain in 1842 but had been widely circulated before publication. Standard translations of it are by Buckingham Smith and Fanny Bandelier. Besides being the first book relative to Texas, it remains one of the human documents of the world. Cabeza de Vaca ' s oral accounts of the Seven Cities of the Cibola resulted in Coro- nado ' s expedition, 1540-1541, in search of the fabled gold. One of his men named Castan- eda wrote an extraordinary narrative de- scriptive of the Staked Plains, mirages, buffalo, etc., and of many adventures within what are now the confines of Texas. Cbro- nado ' s children still tell and believe in the golden dreams that impelled Coronado. Spanish military explorers and missionaries consistently kept diaries; government officials of Mexico followed with other reports. A mass of chronicles in the Spanish language covers the centuries from the time of Cabeza de Vaca to that of the Texas Revolution; most of them make weary reading except to spe- cialists.

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