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虽然瓦埃斯远征去佛罗里达的四名幸存者很幸运地活着回到了“文明世界”，但他们也带来了一个消息，那就是在当时被称为新西班牙的北部，可能有一些有价值的东西。
Though the four survivors of the Narvaez expedition to Florida had been fortunate to return to “civilization” with their lives, they also brought news that there might be something worth looking for north of New Spain as then known.

据报道，迪瓦卡在“心之村”看到了来自南海(太平洋)的珊瑚珠，还有绿松石和祖母绿(可能是孔雀石)：
DeVaca reported seeing in the “Village of Hearts” coral beads reportedly from the South Sea (Pacific) and turquoises and emeralds (probably malachite) reportedly from

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157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. 157:

......北方有一些很高的山，他们用羽毛和鹦鹉的羽毛来做交易，他们还说那里还有很多人和很大房子的村庄。
… some very high mountains toward the north, where they traded for them with feather-bashes and parrot plumes, and they said also that there were villages with many people and very big houses.

第166页:
p. 166:

"从……佩图坦河到迭戈·德·古兹曼(西班牙捕奴者/劫掠者)到达的河，从我们第一次听说基督徒的地方，可能有80里格（长度单位）;到我们遭受雨淋的那个村庄有12里格;从那里到南海[太平洋] 12里格。在那个国家，凡是山区，我们都能看到许多金、锑、铁、铜和其它金属的迹象。
"From … the river of Petutan to the river which Diego de Guzman [the Spaniard slave catcher/marauder] reached, there may be, from the place where we first heard of the Christians, eighty leagues; thence to the village where the rain overtook us, twelve 1eagues; and from there to the South Sea [Pacific] twelve leagues. Throughout all that country, wherever it is mountainous, we saw many signs of gold, antimony, iron, copper and other metals.

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pp. 182-183:

在我们从一个大洋到另一个大洋期间，根据我们的仔细观察，可以确定从一个海岸到另一个海岸，最宽的地方大概有二百里格。我们听说南方的海岸有大量的珍珠，最好最值钱的就在那一片。
During all that time we crossed from one ocean to the other, and from what we very carefully ascertained there may be, from one coast to the other and across the greatest width, two hundred leagues. We heard that on the shores of the South there are pearls great wealth, and that the richest and best is near there.

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