Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
by Cabeza de Vaca
- Preface
- Note on the Text
- Sacred Caesarian Catholic Majesty
- CHAPTER 1: The Sailing of the Armada
- CHAPTER 2: The Governor's Arrival at Xagua with a Pilot
- CHAPTER 3: Our Landing in Florida
- CHAPTER 4: Our Penetration of the Country
- CHAPTER 5: The Governor's Leave-Taking
- CHAPTER 6: The Entry into Apalachen
- CHAPTER 7: The Character of the Country
- CHAPTER 8: Adventures in and out of Apalachen
- CHAPTER 9: The Ominous Note at Aute
- CHAPTER 10: Our Departure from Aute
- CHAPTER 11: The Building of the Barges and Our Departure from the Bay
- CHAPTER 12: The First Month at Sea after Departing the Bay of Horses
- CHAPTER 13: Treachery in the Night Ashore
- CHAPTER 14: The Disappearance of the Greek
- CHAPTER 15: The Indian Assault and the Arrival at a Great River
- CHAPTER 16: The Splitting-Up of the Flotilla
- CHAPTER 17: A Sinking and a Landing
- CHAPTER 18: What Befell Oviedo with the Indians
- CHAPTER 19: The Indians' Hospitality before and after a New Calamity
- CHAPTER 20: News of Other Christians
- CHAPTER 21: Why We Named the Island "Doom"
- CHAPTER 22: The Malhado Way of Life
- CHAPTER 23: How We Became Medicine-Men
- CHAPTER 24: My Years as a Wandering Merchant
- CHAPTER 25: The Journey to the Great Bay
- CHAPTER 26: The Coming of the Indians with Dorantes, Castillo, and Estevainico
- CHAPTER 27: The Story of What Had Happened to the Others
- CHAPTER 28: Figueroa's Further Story of What Had Happened to the Others
- CHAPTER 29: Last Up-Dating on the Fate of the Others
- CHAPTER 30: The Life of the Mariames and Yguaces
- CHAPTER 31: The Tribal Split and News of the Remaining Barge
- CHAPTER 32: Our Escape
- CHAPTER 33: Our Success with Some of the Afflicted and My Narrow Escape
- CHAPTER 34: More Cures
- CHAPTER 35: The Story of the Visitation of Mr. Badthing
- CHAPTER 36: Our Life among the Avavares and Arbadaos
- CHAPTER 37: Our Pushing On
- CHAPTER 38: Customs of that Region
- CHAPTER 39: Indian Warfare
- CHAPTER 40: An Enumeration of the Nations and Tongues
- CHAPTER 41: A Smoke; a Tea; Women and Eunuchs
- CHAPTER 42: Four Fresh Receptions
- CHAPTER 43: A Strange New Development
- CHAPTER 44: Rabbit Hunts and Processions of Thousands
- CHAPTER 45: My Famous Operation in rhe Mountain Country
- CHAPTER 46: The Severe Month's March to the Great River
- CHAPTER 47: The Cow People
- CHAPTER 48: The Long Swing-Around
- CHAPTER 49: The Town of Hearts
- CHAPTER 50: The Buckle and the Horseshoe Nail
- CHAPTER 51: The First Confrontation
- CHAPTER 52: The Falling-Out with Our Countrymen
- CHAPTER 53: The Parley at Culiacan
- CHAPTER 54: The Great Transformation
- CHAPTER 55: Arrival in Mexico City
- CHAPTER 56: My Voyage Home
- CHAPTER 57: What Became of the Others Who Went to the Indies
- Afterword