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在德·瓦卡的日记中，欧洲人第一次提到了美洲野牛。里面是这么说的：
DeVaca’s journal is the first known European mention of the American bison. It says, quote:

阿尔瓦·努涅斯·卡贝萨·德·瓦卡，《关系》，译：范妮·班德尔，《阿尔瓦·努涅斯·卡贝萨·德·瓦卡家族和他的同伴从佛罗里达到太平洋的旅程》，1528-1536年，(纽约：AS巴恩斯公司，1905年)，第94页：
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, “La Relación… ,” trans. Fanny Bandelier, The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536,” (New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1905), p. 94:

这个国家到处都有许多鹿，家禽和其它动物....他们也有奶牛[他用这个词来称呼野牛]；我看过它们三次，吃过它们的肉。在我看来，它们的大小和西班牙的一样。它们的角很小，像摩尔人的牛;它的毛很长，像细羊毛，像厚呢大衣;有些是褐色的，有些是黑色的，我个人觉得，它们比西班牙产的肉更好，也更多。印第安人用小兽皮做毯子遮身，用比较大的兽皮做鞋子和靶子。这些牛从北方来，穿越整个大陆，到达佛罗里达海岸，分布在方圆四百多里格(1200英里)的地方。在这片土地上，它们所经过的山谷中，住在那里的人们以它们的肉为生，然后大量的兽皮被运往内陆。
All over this country there are a great many deer, fowl and other animals .... Here also they come up with cows [This was the word he used for the Buffalo]; I have seen them thrice and have eaten their meat. They appear to me of the size of those in Spain. Their horns are small, like those of the Moorish cattle; the hair is very long like fine wool and like a peajacket; some are brownish and others black, and to my taste they have better and more meat than those from [Spain]. Of the small hides the Indians make blankets to cover themselves with, and of the taller ones they make shoes and targets. These cows come from the north, across the coun­try further on, to the coast of Florida, and are found all over the land for over four hundred leagues [1200 miles]. On this whole stretch, through the valleys by which they come, people who live there descend to sub­sist upon their flesh. And a great quantity of hides are met with inland.

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