Los Sobrevivientes de La Florida


zada from Zafra, Almendralejo, or Segura. No Ufia is known to be
in that vicinity.

 Cafiete, Garcia de. Son of Pedro de Cafiete and Elvira de
Avila, citizens of Illescas, SR-283. Smith-296 includes a survivor
called Cafiete from Ubeda or Baeza. This could be fray Sebastian
de Cafiete, author of the so-called Cafiete Fragment, who may have
been another witness and chronicler of the de Soto expedition and
whose complete writings are yet to be found.34

 Cardenas, Lorenzo de. In February 1545 he rendered testi-
mony in Tenochtitlan (Mexico), New Spain at the request of
Baltasar de Gallegos, one of de Soto's companions. At that time
Cardenas declared he had known Gallegos in 1537 when they were
making the necessary preparations in Sevilla to depart for the
Indies. Later, they sailed to the province of Florida where
Cardenas saw Gallegos participate in several explorations and
wars against the natives. After de Soto's death the survivors
decided to leave that land and, covered with animal skins, they
reached New Spain. Cardenas was living in the capital in 1545
when he declared he was 25 years old and signed his declaration.35
This conqueror is not mentioned by Hernandez de Biedma, nor by
Solar and Ruijula.

 Carmona, Alonso de. This survivor was residing in Cuzco,
Peru, in the year 1556, when he testified in the probanza of Pedro
de Arevalo. He stated that he had gone with Arevalo in de Soto's
expedition to Florida by way of Sevilla and Havana and finally
disembarking in the port of Espiritu Santo. After several years of
discoveries and de Soto's death, he followed Luis de Moscoso to
Mexico. Shortly after, he proceeded to Peru where he made this
signed deposition.36 Carmona was not included in Luis Hernandez
de Biedma's list of survivors, yet this citizen of Priego was an
important source of information for Garcilaso de la Vega who
cited his two written peregrinaciones.37 According to Garcilaso,
Carmona wrote his peregrinations after returning from Peru to live
in Spain. From there he sent them to Vega.38


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