Note 164 — Chapter XIII · ON PARAGUAY

Schmidel’s account of his journey has the curious title: Warhafftige und liebliche Beschreibung etlicher fürnemen Indianischen Landtschafften und Insulen, die vormals in keiner Chronicken gedacht, und erstlich in der Schiffart Ulrici Schmidts von Straubingen mit grosser Gefahr erkündigt, und von ihm selber auffs fleissigst beschrieben und dar gethan. It was first printed in 1567 at Frankfurt am Main at the end of a book of travels issued by Schmidel with the title Neuwe Welt: Das ist wahrhafftige Beschreibunge, etc., etc. This book with a new title page but otherwise unchanged was issued in the same year as the second part of a book of travels published by Sebastian Franck (Erst Theil dieses Weltbuchs von neuwen erfundenen Landschaften. Warhafftige Beschreibunge, etc.) The second Edition appeared in 1597 in Theodor de Bry’s Collection of voyages (America, VII Theil) and a Latin translation by Gothard Artus was issued in 1599 in the Latin version of de Bry’s Collection (Americae Pars VII). In this year Levinus Hulsius in his collection of voyages issued a revised and somewhat abridged version of Schmidel’s narrative under the title Warhafftige Historien einer wunderbaren Schiffart welche Ulrich Schmidel ... in Americam ... gethan, and, also in 1599, a Latin version of the same revised text (Vera historia, etc.). The first Spanish translation is said to have been made and published in 1731 by Gabriel Cárdenas (Z. Cano) (probably a pseudonym of Andrés González de Barcia: note the anagram involved); one was certainly issued by Barcia in 1749 in his Historiadores primitivos de las Indias occidentales. The text used is that of Hulsius. This version was reprinted with some corrections by Pedro de Angelis in his Colección de obras y documentos relativos a la historia antigua y moderna de las Provincias del Río de la Plata in 1836. The first edition in French was that published by Ternaux-Compans.