BIBLIOGRAPHY xli VOYAGE OF ULRICH SCHMIDT 1 THE COMMENTARIES OF ALVAR NUÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA:-- CHAP. I.--Of the Commentaries of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca 95 CHAP. II.--How we departed from the island of Cabo Verde 98 CHAP. III.--Which treats of how the governor arrived with his armada at the island of Santa Catalina, in Brazil, and disembarked his troops there 100 CHAP. IV.--How nine Christians came to the island 101 CHAP. V.--How the governor hastened his journey 104 CHAP. VI.--How the governor and his people advanced into the interior 106 CHAP. VII.--Which treats of what happened to the governor and his people in his journey, and of the nature of the land 108 CHAP. VIII.--Of the troubles that the governor and his people underwent on their way, and of a kind of pine tree, and of the fruits of that land 112 CHAP. IX.--How the governor and his people found themselves starving, and appeased their hunger with worms from reeds 114 CHAP. X.--Of the fear the Indians had of the horses 117 CHAP. XI.--How the governor navigated the river Yguazú in canoes, and how, in order to avoid a cataract of that river, he carried the canoes one league by hand 119 CHAP. XII.--Which treats of the rafts that were made to carry the sick 122 CHAP. XIII.--How the governor arrived at the Ascension, where the Spaniards lived whom he had come to relieve 124 CHAP. XIV.--How the Spaniards, left behind through sickness, on the river Pequiry, arrived at the town of Ascension 126 CHAP. XV.--How the governor, wishing to re-people Buenos Ayres, sent reinforcements to those who had come there in the ship '_Capitana_' 127 CHAP. XVI.--How the natives kill and eat their enemies 129 CHAP. XVII.--Of the peace which the governor concluded with the Indian Agazes 131 CHAP. XVIII.--Of the complaints addressed to the governor by the pobladores against the officers of His Majesty 134 CHAP. XIX.--How the governor received complaints against the Indian Guaycurús 135 CHAP. XX.--How the governor informed himself concerning the complaint 136 CHAP. XXI.--How the governor and his people crossed the river, and how two Christians were drowned 139