Supposedly the first European contact with The Pensacola. The Narváez expedition was a Spanish journey of exploration originally set to colonize Spanish Florida, that ended up crossing the South of present-day United States and North of Mexico from 1528 to 1536. It was led by Pánfilo de Narváez, who was appointed to rule as adelantado. The surviving members of this expedition were the first Europeans to sight the Mississippi River and to cross the Gulf of Mexico and Texas. The crew initially numbered about 600, including men from Spain, Portugal and Italy. Making stops along the way to Florida at Hispaniola and Cuba, the expedition suffered a hurricane, among other storms. After landing near Tampa Bay, they were subject to attacks by American Indians, and suffered the effects of severe lack of food and disease. By September 1528, following an attempt to sail from Florida to Mexico, only 80 men survived after being swept onto Galveston Island, Texas. Over the next few years, more men died, and only four of the original party survived. In 1536, the four survivors—Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and his enslaved Moor Estevanico—finally managed to rejoin Spanish countrymen in present-day Mexico City. After returning to Spain, Cabeza de Vaca was notable for writing about the great expedition in his La Relación (The Relation), published in 1542 (in later editions, it was renamed Naufragios)
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