A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andre Resendez
Author:Andre Resendez [Resendez, Andre]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780786727605
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2007-11-19T16:00:00+00:00
THE CASTAWAYS HAD reached an agricultural oasis in the midst of a sea of nomads. The captive’s village turned out to be part of a cluster of settlements located at the confluence of the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos, an area aptly known today as La Junta de los Rios (“The Juncture of the Rivers”), between Presidio, Texas, and Ojinaga, Chihuahua. Almost fifty years after Cabeza de Vaca’s visit, another Spanish expedition headed by a Mexico City merchant named Antonio de Espejo went through La Junta area and counted five pueblos and more than 10,000 inhabitants living in flat-roofed houses. Espejo learned another interesting fact. The residents told him that “three Christians and a negro had passed through there.” Espejo immediately concluded that such visitors could only have been “Alonso [sic] Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Dorantes, Castillo Maldonado, and a negro, who had all escaped from the fleet with which Pánfilo Narváez entered Florida.”16
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