eminencie

tiranie and oppression…

aledg

It must needs be their great disorder, for they spent excesseivly whilst they had, or could get it; and, it may be, wasted parte away among ye Indeans (for he yt was their cheef [157]was taxed by some amongst them for keeping Indean women, how truly I know not).

Don Antonio de Otermín

This last was unnecessary, the Indians being ever diligent to bring us all they could.

they must be won by kindness, which is a way certain, and no other is.

the people thin and weak, all fleeing or in concealment.

Of this the Indians were very glad.

"We questioned him further, as to who had brought them thence : they all responded, that certain men who wore beards like us, had come from heaven and arrived at that river; bringing horses, lances, and swords, and that they had lanced two Indians. In a manner of the utmost indifference we could feign, we asked them what had become of those men : they answered us that they had gone to sea, putting their lances beneath the water, and going themselves also under the water; afterwards that they were seen on the surface going towards the sunset.

"With grass and straw the women cover their nudity.^ They are a timid and dejected people...

six hundred open hearts of deer

they are friends as if nothing had happened

the men never interfere.

the Indians leave him to perish, unless it be a son or a brother; him they will assist, even to carrying on their back.

otherwise those who lived would be delicate having httle strength.

The children are suckled until the age of twelve years, when they are old enough to get sup- port for themselves

They said that up to that time they had struggled with great hunger, which was the cause of their not having sought me

I should have died

I carried some marks on my hair of the danger to which I was exposed

while walking naked as I was born

e resolved to pass the season with these Indians.

few skins

It was strange to see these men, wild and untaught, howling like brutes over our misfortunes.

in a plight so different from what it was before, and so extraordinary, they were alarmed and turned back.

Near the shore a wave took us, that knocked the boat out of water the distance of the throw of a crowbar

he departed with his boat...

healthiest of all the men

After the provisions and clothes had been taken in, not over a span of the gunwales remained above water ; and more than this, the boats were so crowded that we could not move : so much can necessity do, which drove us to hazard our hves in this manner, running into a turbu- lent sea, not a single one who went, having a know- ledge of navigation.

This ap- peared impossible to every one : we knew not how to construct, nor were there tools, nor iron, nor forge, nor tow, nor resin, nor rigging; finally, no one thing of so many that are necessary, nor any man who had a knowledge of their manufacture; and, above all, there -was nothing to eat, while building, for those who should labor...

no cure.

I myself saw an arrow that had entered the butt of an elm to the depth of a span.

The country is very cold.

To me, one only duty remains, to present a relation of what was seen and heard in the ten years I wandered lost and in privation through many and remote lands

but coming in the providence of God and solely by His will.

I think no prince can be found whose service has been attended with the ardor and emulation shown for that of your Highness at this time

inducement

making it a point to keep them from knowing how far they had sailed; in this manner two reckonings were kept, the shorter one falsified, and the other being the true account.

Gloria in excelsis Deo

reward

19 September. Continued on, and sailed, day and night, twenty- five leagues, experiencing a calm. Wrote down twenty-two. This day at ten o’clock a pelican came on board, and in the evening another; these birds are not accustomed to go twenty leagues from land. It drizzled without wind, which is a sure sign of land. The Admiral was unwilling to remain here, beating about in search of land, but he held it for certain that there were islands to the north and south, which in fact was the case and he was sailing in the midst of them. His wish was to proceed on to the Indies, having such fair weather, for if it please God, as the Admiral says, we shall examine these parts upon our return. Here the pilots found their places upon the chart: the reckoning of the Nina made her four hundred and forty leagues distant from the Canaries, that of the Pinta four hundred and twenty, that of the Admiral four hundred.

Reckoned only forty-eight leagues, that the men might not be terrified if they should be long upon the voyage.

sailors steered badly

disliked the voyage

behooves

iceroy and Governor in all the islands and continents which I might discover and acquire, or which may hereafter he discovered and acquired in the ocean; and that this dignity should be inherited by my eldest son, and thus descend from degree to degree forever.

disposition and the proper method of converting them to our holy faith;

the first light appeared in the first point of the East, where the most elevated point of the globe is.

hrewd, intelligent, and courageous

excessively black

they only established their own hemisphere, which, as I have already said, is half of a perfect sphere

equinoctial line

form of a pear

Behold his eyebrows

nd make of the Wabanaki a mighty race

t would drop dead

taken her to himself

would

Tomah Josephs

I think that the Indian who told me this story

came to this country to have my mother baptized as a Catholic.

English

he people had never seen a canoe before. They came flocking down to look at it.

(adopted)

She pointed it at the deer; it fell dead

The medicine had accomplished this.

had

She knew that I used it, but nevertheless she was afraid of it

Let us eat peyote again to-night.” That evening I ate eight peyote.

It had legs and arms and a long tail

I have harmed myself

regalia

Mount Sinai

peyote

who were friendly to man

He fairly shook with joy at the thought, so that he fell over backward and could not get on his feet again

rheumatism

seven

Men came after the animals and plants.

only the cedar, the pine, the spruce, the holly, and the laurel were awake to the end, and to them it was given to be always green and to be greatest for medicine, but to the others it was said: "Because you have not endured to the end you shall lose your, hair every winter.

power to see and to go about in the dark, and to make prey of the birds and animals which must sleep at night.

we do not know by whom

seven handbreadths high and just under the sky arch.

conjurers

Cherokee do not eat it.

grow and spread on every side until it became the island which we call the earth

animals were above

When all was water,

Early-arriving Euro- peans were hosted and fed and sheltered and studied; they were regarded as neither gods nor demons, and their appearance probably did not seem more than a mildly interesting event to the ordinary Native American citizen.

circumscribed

culled

there is no such thing