Álvar Núñe-beza de Vaca: Adventures
in the Unknown Interior of America, 1542, translated and annotated by Cyclone Covey
(1963, copyright not renewed), full text [At ibiblio]
"The semi-official report to the king of Spain by the ranking surviving officer of a
royal expedition to conquer Florida which fantastically miscarried."
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695): Poems [At Sappho]
Antonio Valerian: Nican Mopohua,
(or Huei Tlamahuitzoltica) [At Sancta.org].
The story of Our Lady of Guadaloupe, who is said to have appeared in 1531. Written in
Nahuatl, the Aztec language, around the middle of the sixteenth century. This copy
published in Nahuatl by Luis Lasso de la Vega in 1649.
Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa: Colonial Lima, from A
Voyage to South America, 1748 [At Historical Text Archive]
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