The books of 1534 are, _Francis of Bologna_, _La Letera_, Venetia, n.d.; _Chronica compendiosissima_, Antwerp, 1534, containing letters from priests in Mexico; _Vadianus_, _Epitome_, Tigura, 1534, includes the Insulæ Oceani; _Peter Martyr_, _Libro Primo Della Historia_, Vinegia, 1534, which has joined to it a libro secondo by Oviedo, and an anonymous third book on the conquest of Peru; two anonymous works, _Letera de la nobil cipta_, and _Copia delle Lettere del Prefetto della India_, being letters from Peru, the latter describing the conquest; _Honter_, _De cosmographiæ_, Basileæ, 1534, with a chapter on the new islands; _Xeres_, _Uerdadera relacion de la conquista del Peru_, Seville, 1534; and an anonymous work on the same subject, _La conquista del Peru_, Seville, 1534.
[1535.] In this year appeared the first edition of the great historical work of Gonzalo Hernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, _La Historia general de las Indias_, Seville, 1535. Only nineteen of the fifty books which comprise the whole work appear in this edition; the work complete has since been published in Madrid, 1851-5. Steinhowel, _Chronica Beschreibung_, Franckenfort, 1535, has a chapter on 'America discovered in 1497.'
[1536.] In April, 1528, as we have seen, Pánfilo de Narvaez had landed on the west coast of Florida, probably at Tampa Bay, and attempted with three hundred men to reach Pánuco by land. The company gradually melted from famine, sickness, and battles with the savages, until only Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca with a few companions remained. They were held as slaves by the natives of the Gulf coast for six years; and then escaping, traversed Texas, Chihuahua, and Sonora, by a route which has not been very definitely fixed. Cabeza de Vaca with three companions reached the Spanish settlements in northern Sinaloa early in 1536, and their reports served as a powerful incentive to more extended exploration. _Relatione che fece Alvaro Nvnez detto Capo di vacca_, in _Ramusio_, tom. iii. fol. 310-30; _Purchas_, _His Pilgrimes_, vol. iv. p. 1499; _Cabeça de Vaca's Relation_, New York, 1871; _Ternaux-Compans_, _Voy._, série i. tom, vii.; _Oviedo_, _Hist. Gen._, tom. iii. p. 582 et seq.; _Barcia_, _Historiadores Prim._, tom. i.