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Aug 8, 2024 · Dwindling food stores, attacks by the Apalachee people, and decreasing numbers caused de Narváez and his men to return to the coast, but they could not locate their ships.
Nov 17, 2017 · The above two descriptions of the bay and mainland adjacent to the Isla Malhado corroborate each other, and they provide many clues about Malhado's location. Compare the satellite photo of Follet's Island (left), Galveston Island (center), and the Bolivar Peninsula (right) in Figure 6, above.
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Nov 16, 2009 · With his exploration party reduced to only 80 or 90 men, Cabeza de Vaca’s motley flotilla finally wrecked on what was probably Galveston Island just off the coast of Texas.
Closely following the Gulf Coast, the boats proceeded to the west, but frequent storms, thirst and starvation reduced the expedition to about 80 survivors before a hurricane cast Cabeza de Vaca and his remaining men on the western shore of a barrier island.
The THC partnered with National Park Service (NPS) and the University of Texas (UT) in 1969 to relocate the shipwrecks. Work began with a visual survey of the beach at Padre Island to look for coins and other artifacts that may have washed ashore, providing clues to the approximate location offshore.
Oct 29, 2021 · The Padre Island artifacts recovered from the salvaging company were taken first to the General Land Office, then to the Texas Memorial Museum, and in October 1969 to the University of Texas Balcones Research Center (now the J. J. Pickle Research Campus) in Austin.
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Dec 31, 2019 · When shipwrecked survivors of the ill-fated 1528 expedition of Pánfil de Narváez reached Malhado (or Isle of Misfortune), west of Galveston Island, they encountered friendly natives. One of the Spaniards, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, reported that these coastal people provided food and shelter and otherwise treated them well.
