A.D. 



1581-83. 



[III. 392.] 



Pamphilo de 

 Narvaex 

 entred into 

 Florida 1527 



Rio del Norte. 



Another 



province. 



Very great 

 quantity of 

 silver. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



received their life and being, and these worldly goods. 

 Many of them with their wives and children came unto 

 the frier (which the captaine and souldiers brought with 

 them) that hee might crosse and blesse them. Who 

 demanding of them, from whom they had received that 

 knowledge of God, they answered, from three Christians, 

 & one Negro which passed that way, and remained 

 certaine dayes among them, who by the signes which 

 they made, were Alvaro Nunnez, Cabe9a de Vaca, and 

 Dorantes, and Castillo Maldonado, and a Negro ; all 

 which escaped of the company which Pamphilo de 

 Narvaez landed in Florida ; who after they had bene 

 many dayes captives and slaves, escaped and came to 

 these townes, by whom God shewed many miracles, and 

 healed onely by the touching of their hands many sicke 

 persons, by reason wherof they became very famous in 

 all that countrey. All this province remained in great 

 peace and security ; in token whereof, they accompanied 

 and served our m^en certaine dayes, travelling along by 

 the great river aforesayd. 



Within few dayes after they came unto another great 

 province of Indians, from whence they came forth to 

 receive them, upon the newes which they had heard 

 of their neighbors, and brought them many very curious 

 things made of feathers of divers colours, and many 

 mantles of cotton straked with blew and white, like 

 those that are brought from China, to barter & trucke 

 them for other things. All of them both men, women 

 and children were clad in chamois skinnes very good 

 and wel dressed. Our people could never understand 

 what nation they were for lacke of an interpreter : how- 

 beit they dealt with them by signes ; and having shewed 

 unto them certaine stones of rich metall, and inquired 

 whether there were any such in their countrey : they 

 answered by the same signes, that five dayes journey 

 Westward from thence there was great quantity therof, 

 and that they would conduct them thither, and shew 

 it unto them ; as afterward they performed their 



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