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The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555)

Note 113 — A true and agreeable description of some principal Indian lands and islands, which have not been recorded in former chronicles, but have now been first explored amid great danger during the voyage of Ulrich Schmidt of Straubing, and most carefully described by him.

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Domingo Martinez de Irala.

[114] Payaguás. These were the Indians who killed Juan de Ayolas and all his people, according to Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca in his Comentarios, infra, and Ruy Diaz de Guzman in La Argentina; also Herrera, Década, v, libro 7, capitulo 5.

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