The Account

Cultural Writing. A new and improved translation of the Spanish explorer's chronicle of his journey across a large portion of what is now the United States. De Vaca's journey (1528 - 1536) of hardship and misfortune is one of the most remarkable in the history of the New World and contains many first descriptions of the land and their inhabitants. THE ACCOUNT is of estimable value for students of history an literature, ethnographers, anthropologists, and the general reader. It is the second literary text to be issued by a national project to reconstruct the literary history of Hispanics of the United States.

Acknowledgements	p. 5
Introduction	p. 11
The King	p. 26
Proem	p. 28
Which Tells When the Fleet Sailed, and of the Officers and People Who Went with It	p. 30
How the Governor Came to the Port of Xagua and Brought a Pilot with Him	p. 33
How We Arrived in Florida	p. 34
How We Entered the Land	p. 35
How the Governor Left the Ships	p. 38
How We Entered Apalachee	p. 41
What the Land is Like	p. 42
How We Left Aute	p. 46
How We Left the Bay of Horses	p. 49
of Our Skirmish with the Indians	p. 52
What Happened to Lope De Oviedo with Some Indians	p. 55
How the Indians Brought Us Food	p. 56
How We Found Out About Other Christians	p. 58
How Four Christians Departed	p. 59
What Happened to Us in the Village of Misfortune	p. 62
How the Christians Left the Isle of Misfortune	p. 64
How the Indians Came and Brought Andrés Dorantes and Castillo and Estebanico	p. 67
How He Told Esquivel's Story	p. 70
How the Indians Left Us	p. 74
How We Escaped	p. 76
How We Cured Some Sick People	p. 77
How They Brought Other Sick People to Us the Following Day	p. 79
How We Left After Having Eaten the Dogs	p. 84
About the Customs of the Indians of That Land	p. 85
How the Indians Are Skilled with a Weapon	p. 87
About the Peoples and Languages	p. 89
How We Moved on and Were Welcomed	p. 91
About Another New Custom	p. 93
How They Stole from One Another	p. 96
How the Custom of Welcoming Us Changed	p. 99
How We Followed the Corn Route	p. 103
They Gave Us the Deer Hearts	p. 105
How We Saw Traces of Christians	p. 108
How the Mayor Received Us Well the Night We Arrived	p. 112
How We Had Them Build Churches in That Land	p. 115
What Happened When I Wanted to Leave	p. 117
What Happened to the Others Who Went to the Indies	p. 120
Notes	p. 122
Editions of the Account in Chronological Order	p. 141
Translations of the Account in Chronological Order	p. 143
Bibliography	p. 144
Index	p. 151
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