Relation of Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca.
By: [Translated from the Spanish by Buckingham Smith]
Contributors: Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871, tr.
Series: March of America facsimile series,; no. 9
Publisher: University Microfilms
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Ann Arbor [Mich.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Narváez, Pánfilo de, d. 1528.; Indians of North America.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.; America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Notes: Original t.p. has imprint: New York, 1871.
The 1st Spanish ed. was published at Zamora in 1542, under title: "La relacion que dio Aluar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca de lo acaescido en las Indias en la armada donde yua por Gouernador Páphilo de Narbáez desde el año de veynte y siete hasta el año de treynta y seys ..." The present ed. is a revision of B. Smith's translation privately printed at Washington in 1851 from the second Spanish ed. published at Valladolid, 1555.
"Alva[r] Nunẽz Cabeça de Vaca [by T.W. Field]": p. 233-254. "Memoir of Thomas Buckingham Smith [by J.G. Shea]": p. [255]-263. The appendix includes translations of various Spanish documents relating to the expedition of Narváez and its historian.