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3. This is the translation by James E. Kelley Jr. in his “Juan Ponce de León’s Discovery
of Florida: Herrera’s Narrative Revisited,” Revista de Historia de América 111 (January–June 1991):42. I have altered Kelley’s rendering of Pascua as “Passover” to “Easter.”
4. Ibid.
5. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, La “Relacíon” o “Naufragios” de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , ed. Martin A. Favata and José B. Fernández (Potomac, Md.: Scripta Humanística,
1986). See also new translations in Charles Hudson and Carmen McClendon, eds., Forgot-
ten Centuries (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994), and in John H. Hann, “Transla-
tion of the Florida Section of the Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Accounts of the 1528 Trek
from South Florida to Apalachee led by Pánfilo de Narváez,” manuscript, Florida Bureau
of Archaeological Research, Tal ahassee.
6. John Francis Bannon, introduction to The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, First European Contacts · 39
trans. Fanny Bandelier, with Oviedo’s version of the lost joint report translated by Gerald
Theisen (Barre, Mass.: Imprint Society, 1972), p. 27.
7. Alonso de Chaves, Quatri Partitu en Cosmographia practica, y por otro nombre Es-pejo de Navegantes (Madrid, 1537; reprint, Madrid, 1983); Luys Hernández de Biedma,
“Relation of the Island of Florida . . . 1539,” ed. and trans. John E. Worth, in Lawrence A.
Clayton, Vernon James Knight, Jr., and Edward C. Moore, eds., The De Soto Chronicles:
The Expedition of Hernando De Soto to North America in 1539–1543, 2 vols. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993), 1:225.
8. John R. Swanton, ed., Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission, U.S. House of Representatives Doc. 71, 76th Cong., 1st sess. (Washington: Govern-
ment Printing Office, 1939); reprint, with an introduction by Jeffrey P. Brain (Washington:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985).
9. Louis D. Tesar, “The Case for Concluding that De Soto Landed Near Present-Day
Fort Myers, Florida: The Conclusions Presented by Warren H. Wilkinson Reviewed,” Flor-
ida Anthropologist 42, no. 4 (December 1989):276–79, and Lindsey Williams, “A Charlotte
Harbor Perspective on de Soto’s Landing Site,” ibid., 280–94. See also Rolfe F. Schel , De
Soto Didn’t Land at Tampa (Ft. Myers Beach: Island Press, 1966).
10. Jerald T. Milanich and Charles Hudson, Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993).
11. Garcilaso de la Vega, the Inca, La Florida, trans. Charmion Shelby, in The De Soto Chronicles , ed. Clayton, Knight, Moore, 2:357–58.
12. See the transcript “Paracer que da a S.M. el Consejo de la Nueva España, en virtud
de su Real Cédula [fecha en Madrid a 23 de Septiembre de 1561] que sigue, sobre la forma
en que estava la costa de la Florida, y que no convenía aumentar la Población,” Bucking-
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