. St. Nicholas [serial] . nished for their violation of thestrict laws of Spain) were then trying to catchslaves. The soldiers had just left; but Cabezade Vaca and Estevanico, with eleven Indians,hurried forward on their trail, and next dayovertook four Spaniards, who led them to theirrascally captain. Diego de Alcaraz. It waslong before that officer could believe the won-drous story told by the naked, torn, shaggy, 592 THE FIRST AMERICAN TRAVELER. [June wild man; but at last his coldness was thawed,and he gave a certificate of the date, and of thecondition in which Vaca had come to him. andth
. St. Nicholas [serial] . nished for their violation of thestrict laws of Spain) were then trying to catchslaves. The soldiers had just left; but Cabezade Vaca and Estevanico, with eleven Indians,hurried forward on their trail, and next dayovertook four Spaniards, who led them to theirrascally captain. Diego de Alcaraz. It waslong before that officer could believe the won-drous story told by the naked, torn, shaggy, 592 THE FIRST AMERICAN TRAVELER. [June wild man; but at last his coldness was thawed,and he gave a certificate of the date, and of thecondition in which Vaca had come to him. andthen sent back for Dorantes and Castillo. Fivedays later these arrived, accompanied by severalhundred Indians. Alcaraz and his partner in crime, Cebreros, before they could accustom themselves toeating the food and wearing the clothing ofcivilized people. The negro remained in Mexico. On the iothof April, 1537, Cabeza de Vaca, Castillo, andDorantes sailed for Spain, arriving in chief hero never came back to North. CABEZA DE VACA ON THE MARCH. wished to enslave these aborigines ; but Cabezade Vaca, regardless of his own danger in takingsuch a stand, indignantly opposed the infamousplan, and finally forced the villains to abandonit. The Indians were saved; and in all theirjoy at getting back to the world the Spanishwanderers parted with sincere regret from thesesimple-hearted friends. After a few days hardtravel they reached the post of Culiacan aboutthe first of May, 1536, where they were warmlywelcomed by the ill-fated hero Melchior led one of the earliest expeditions (in 1539)to the unknown north; and in 1540, on asecond expedition across part of Arizona andinto California, was accidentally killed. After a short rest the wanderers left for Com-postela, then the chief town of the province ofNew Galicia — itself a small journey of threehundred miles through a land swarming withhostile savages. At last, they reached the cityof Mexico in safety, and were receive
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