Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Quotes

• Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

  Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

  Sea, Water, Waiting

  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (2002). “Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition”, p.54, Penguin

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• All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

  Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

  Beauty, Country, Land

  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”

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• One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

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  Country, Fate, People

  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”

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• Dos días después de la mudanza nos encomendamos a Dios, Nuestro Señor, y huimos, con la esperanza de que, aunque ya era tarde en la estación y los frutos de las tunas se estaban acabando, permaneciendo en el campo aún podríamos hacernos con una buena porción de tierra.

  Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

  Moving, Land, Two

  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”

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