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Essays on architecture as narrative and urban space as experience and the new geographies they create. The Unknown City takes its place in the emerging architectural literature that looks beyond design process and buildings to discover new ways of looking at the urban experience.
Jun 28, 2008 · March 2002. Pages 183-188. Download PDF. Books reviewed in this article: Borden, Iain, Joe Kerr and Jane Rendell (eds.) with Alicia Pivaro The unknown city: contesting architecture and social space Coutard, Olivier (ed.) The governance of...
- Sacred Caesarian Catholic Majesty:
- CHAPTER 2: The Governor's Arrival at Xagua with a Pilot
- CHAPTER 4: Our Penetration of the Country
- 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 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 26: The Coming of the Indians with Dorantes, Castillo, and Esteváinico
- 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 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 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 53: The Parley at Culiacán
- CHAPTER 54: The Great Transformation
- CHAPTER 55: Arrival in Mexico City
- CHAPTER 57: What Became of the Others Who Went to the Indies
- Afterword
AMONG ALL THE PRINCES who have reigned, I know of none who has enjoyed the universal esteem of Your Majesty [Emperor Charles V] at this day, when strangers vie in approbation with those motivated by religion and loyalty. Although everyone wants what advantage may be gained from ambition and action, we see everywhere great inequalities of fortune, b...
ON THAT DAY the Governor hove in with a brig he had bought in Trindad and, with him, a pilot by the name of Miruelo, who had been hired because he claimed he had been to the River of Palms and knew the whole northern coast. The Governor had also purchased another vessel, which he left beached at Havana with forty people and twelve horsemen under Ca...
THE DAY FOLLOWING, the Governor resolved to explore inland, taking the Commissary [Fray Suárez], the Inspector [Solis], and me, together with forty men, including six horsemen, who could hardly have done much good. We headed northward until about the hour of vespers, when we came upon a very big bay which seemed to extend far inland. [This would ha...
ON SIGHTING Apalachen [which was probably situated on or near the west bank of the Apalachicola], the Governor ordered me with nine cavalry and fifty infantry to invade the village. The Inspector [Solis] and I accordingly marched in, to find only women and boys. The men, however, returned while we were walking about, and began discharging arrows at...
THE TERRAIN we had suffered through since first landing in Florida is mostly level, the soil sandy and stiff. Throughout are immense trees and open woods, containing nut varieties, laurels, a species called liquid−amber 39 [sweet−gum], cedars, junipers, live−oaks, pines, red−oaks, and low palmettos like those of Castile. Everywhere are lakes, large...
TWO HOURS after we arrived in Apalachen, the Indians who had fled returned in peace to ask the release of their women and children. We released them. The Governor, however, continued to hold one of their caciques [chiefs], whereupon they grew agitated and attacked us the next day. They worked so fast, with such daring, that they fired the very hous...
SO WE marched on for eight days, meeting no resistance until we came within a league of our immediate objective. Then, while we ambled along unsuspectingly, Indians surprised our rear. An hidalgo named Avellaneda, a member of the rearguard who had already passed the point of ambush when the attack broke, heard his servant−lad cry out and turned bac...
THE NEXT MORNING [August 3] we quit Aute and made it to the place I had just visited. The journey was extremely arduous. We did not have horses enough to carry the sick, who kept getting worse every day, and we knew no cure for the disease [undoubtedly malaria, probably complicated by dysentery]. By the time we reached my previous campsite, it was ...
THE HAVEN we set out from we gave the name Vaya de Cavallos [Bay of Horses]. [Twelve years later, Indians led a detachment of De Soto's expedition to this cove of Apalachicola Bay, where scattered charcoal, hollowed−out logs that had been used for water troughs, etc., could still be seen.] We sailed seven days among those waist−deep sounds without ...
IT WAS the will of God, Who often shows His favor in the hour of total despair, that as we doubled a point of land at sunset we found ourselves sheltered in calm waters [apparently near Pensacola]; and many canoes of big, well−built Indiansunarmedcame out to speak, then paddled back ahead of us. We followed them to their houses at the water's edge ...
NEXT MORNING [October 28] I broke up thirty of their canoes, which we used for fire; the north wind, which raised yet another storm, confined us to land in the cold. When the storm subsided, we returned to sea, navigating three days [three or four, says the Joint Report ]. We had only a few containers to carry water, so could take but a little supp...
WITH MORNING came Indians in many canoes [twentyJoint Report ], calling on us to give up our two hostages. The Governor replied that he would when the Indians brought the two Christians. Five or six chiefs were distinguishable in the array of natives, who looked comelier, more commanding, and better disciplined than any Indians we had yet seen, alt...
THE GOVERNOR did not want to stop there but went into a nearby bay dotted with islets. The other barges joined him, and we found we could take fresh water from the sea, the river emptying into it in a torrent. To parch cornwhich we had eaten raw for two days nowwe scrambled onto an island, but found no firewood, so decided to go to the river, one l...
OUR TWO BARGES continued in company for four days, each man eating a ration of half a handful of raw corn a day. Then the other barge was lost in a storm. [The Joint Report says this loss occurred the day after the two barges joined.] Nothing but God's great mercy kept us from going down, too. It was winter and bitterly cold, and we had suffered hu...
AFTER WE ATE, I ordered Lope de Oviedo, our strongest man, to climb one of the trees not far off and ascertain the lay of the land. He complied and found out from the treetop that we were on an island. [This was Galveston Island.] He also said that the ground looked as if cattle had trampled it and therefore that this must be a country of Christian...
AS THE SUN ROSE next morning, the Indians appeared as they promtsed, bringing an abundance of fish and of certain roots which taste like nuts, some bigger than walnuts, some smaller, mostly grubbed from the water with great labor. That evening they came again with more fish and roots and brought their women and children to look at us. They thought ...
THAT VERY DAY, I saw an Indian wearing a trinket which I knew we had not given. Inquiring whence it came, we learned from our hosts' signs that it had come from men like ourselves, who bivouacked farther back. At this, I sent two Christians, with two Indians for guides, to contact them. It so happened that the latter were at that moment on their wa...
WITHIN A FEW DAYS of the departure of the four Christians, the weather turned so cold and stormy that the Indians could not pull up roots; their cane contraptions for catching fish yielded nothing; and the huts being very open, our men began to die. Five Christians quartered on the coast came to the extremity of eating each other. Only the body of ...
THE PEOPLE we came to know there [Capoques and Han, as identified later in the narrative] are tall and well−built. Their only weapons are bows and arrows, which they use with great dexterity. The men bore through one of their nipples, some both, and insert a joint of cane two and a half palms long by two fingers thick. They also bore their lower li...
THE ISLANDERS wanted to make physicians of us without examination or a review of diplomas. Their method of cure is to blow on the sick, the breath and the laying−on of hands supposedly casting out the infirmity. They insisted we should do this too and be of some use to them. We scoffed at their cures and at the idea we knew how to heal. But they wi...
AFTER Dorantes and Castillo returned to the island [from the Han oyster−eating season on the main], they rounded up all the surviving Christians, who were living somewhat separated from each other. They totaled fourteen. As I have said, I happened to be opposite on the main at that time participating in the Capoque blackberry−eating season. There I...
TWO DAYS after Lope de Oviedo departed, the Indians who had Alonso del Castillo and Andrés Dorantes reached the place we had been told of, to eat pecans. These are ground with a kind of small grain and fumish the sole subsistence of the people for two months of the yearand not every year, because the trees only bear every other year. The nut is the...
NOW I HEARD HERE how Dorantes and the eleven with him had left the island of Malhado [around late April, 1529) and stumbled upon the barge in which the Comptroller and the fnars had sailed, bottom up on the seashore [at the mouth of the San Bernardo, according to data given in the Joint Report]; how, making their way down the coast, they had encoun...
FIGUEROA recounted [to Dorantes, Castillo, and the eight or nine men with them there on the peninsula] how he and his three companions had got as far as that place [Matagorda Bay] when two of them [Fernández, the Portuguese sailor, and Astudillo, the native of Zafra] and the Indian [of Auia] died of cold and hunger; it was the middle of the winter....
THE REMAINING [eight] Christians prevailed on the Indians to receive them as slaves. [The Joint Report says that they first lingered with the fishing and blackberry−picking Indians who did not migrate with the group who had Figueroa, the priest, and the young swimmer; but that these hosts tired of seeking food for their guests and turned five of th...
THUS ENTHRALLED to their custom, they take life, destroying even their male children on account of dreams. [Obedience to dreams, according to Dorantes in the Joint Report, is the one superstition of these people. He said he had witnessed the killing or burying alive of eleven or twelve boys; rarely, he added, do they let a girl live.] They cast awa...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
[CASTILLO DID NOT SAIL to Spain with Cabeza de Vaca but did sail at some other time, only to return to Mexico, where he married a well−to−do widow and was granted half the rents of the Indian town of Tehuacán. As a citizen of Mexico City, he slips quietly from history's sight. When Dorantes's unseaworthy ship returned to Mexico, the Viceroy Mendoza...
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