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Of the father and son who were adrift on a plank until the father died; and how the son escaped. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of a ship that departed this city of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola and struck a rock on this coast and a sailor jumped from the ship to the rock and came by land to this city while the ship sailed safely on to Spain. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of a ship that sank in the Ocean Sea1 three hundred leagues from land; of how all the people on board survived for twelve days in the ship's boat without drinking or eating anything except for two pounds of hardtack. 1 Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of a ship many leagues out to sea that caught fire which was miraculously extinguished. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of three ships two hundred or more leagues out to sea that miraculously escaped disaster with all their people aboard and managed to return to Puerto Plata on this Island of Hispaniola. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of a shipwreck in which the Mother of God worked her marvels for the ship's master named Baltasar de Chaves. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of the wreck of a ship that embarked from this city of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola on which was traveling a gentleman resident of the island of Cuba named Juan de Rojas with his wife, doña María de Lobera, whom he had married here a few days earlier and was taking to his home in the town of La Havana, On the island which is also known as Fernandina. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of a very notable case that happened a few years ago to one Antonio de Palenzuela on the coast of Tierra Firme. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of what happened to Master Francisco de Santa Ana, resident of Tirana, suburb of Seville, and to others with him on a ship from these parts bound for Spain with a great quantity of gold and silver; and how they miraculously escaped. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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In Which is related the marvelous case of a Portuguese ship that with thirty seamen left the port of this city of Santo Domingo to return to Portugal and, caught in a storm, was blown to the island of Bermuda, Where the ship was wrecked and the people escaped by God's mercy. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of another shipwreck that happened later in the same year as the previous one but with not such happy outcome as was related above. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'

Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies' Get access

Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo
Published online: 14 September 2011
Published in print: 01 March 2011
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Of a Portuguese youth who, while traveling on a ship under full sail in fine weather, dove into the water wearing a balaclava to swim to another ship of the fleet; and how, by god's mercy, he was picked up by a ship following a quarter of a league behind. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of the caravel they call the Taviras' for the marvelous thing that Will Be recounted here that God and His Glorious Mother did for these women and for other persons who were involved In this shipwreck. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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How Licentiate Alonso Zuazo's Caravel was Wrecked on the Alacranes Islands with Almost Fifty-five or Sixty Persons, of Whom Seventeen Miraculously Escaped with him; and of Many Things that Happened on this Voyage and Shipwreck. To Avoid Overtiring the Reader, this Chapter will be Divided Into Thirty-nine Paragraphs or Parts. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of the misfortune that befell a captain named Benito Hurtado and his people at sea and on land in Tierra Firme in the settling of the province of Cheriquí and in other parts through which they passed.1 1 Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of the several wrecks of Cristóbal de sanabria, of seville, who now is a resident of this city of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola, and of the others who were with him; and because the story is long it is contained in fourteen paragraphs or parts. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of the unfortunate event and shipwreck (which some have attributed to a lack of prudence) of a pilot named Juan Bermúdez, who departed the port of this city of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola bound for Castile in the year 1538 and returned from the Azores the following year, 1539, without making Spain. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Which is more than a shipwreck tale because it treats of a marvelous event which is given in an extraordinary report of the very famous and powerful river called the marañón, along which Captain Francisco de Orellana and other hidalgos navigated more than two thousand leagues for eight months until arriving in Christian lands at Las Perlas Island (or Cubagua) in this oceanic region, and from there the captain came to this city of Santo Domingo with some soldiers from his company, participants in his travails and witnesses to everything herein contained;1 all this as recorded by a devout and reverend father of the Order of Preachers Friars, Gaspar de Carvajal,2 who was present in person for everything and who relates the lesson and brief history in the following fashion:3 1 2 3 Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
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Of the Shipwreck and Marvelous event that befell a reverend canon of the holy cathedral of this our city of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola and to others who experienced this crisis, from which they escaped by God's mercy in the manner that will be related here. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011