One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same … - Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

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[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

Country, Fate, People, Prospect, Same

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All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

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Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

Fruits, Good, Land, Moving, Portion, Two

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

Sea, Storm, Wait, Waiting, Water

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