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Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Form
Form Travel Writing
Year
Year 1542
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 200

Three hundred men wade ashore in Florida with a royal warrant and no idea where they are. Eight years later four are alive, and one of them is writing it down for the emperor who sent them.

through all that country we went naked, and not being accustomed to it, like snakes we shed our skin twice a year.
Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

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