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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers. Search the whole document.
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Apalachicola Bay (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
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Book IV: the strange voyage of Cabeza de Vaca.
(A. D. 1528-1533.)
These extracts are taken from The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca, translated by Buckingham Smith, Washington, 1851, pp. 30-99. See, also, Henry Kingsley's Tales of Old Travel.
I.—The strange voyage.
[Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca sailed for Florida in June, 1527, as treasurer of a Spanish armada, or armed fleet.
In Cuba they encountered a hurricane, which delayed them; but they at last reached the coast of Florida in February, 1528, probably landing at what is now called Charlotte harbor.
A portion of the party left their ships, and marched into the interior, reaching a region which they called Apalache, probably in what is now Alabama.
Then they were driven back to the seashore, amid great hardships, losing one-third of their number before they reached Aute, now the Bay of St. Mark's.
Near this they came to the sea; and here the narrative begins.]
It was a piteous and painful thing to witness the perple