How Did Cabeza De Vaca Survive

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Cabeza de Vaca survived by using intelligent strategies that kept him alive just barely. Cabeza used his great communication skills for survival. He was also an amazing healer. Another reason is he had amazing talent with navigation. Overall, Cabeza was a strategist, and he was very smart. Cabeza de Vaca survived by using his amazing communication skills. Cabeza learned four Indian languages, including Charrucos, plus sign language. He was very talented given the fact that he could speak about 5 different languages including sign language. Cabeza was brilliant and insanely clever. Cabeza is very capable given that the time he was living in and lack of knowledge about the world, he can still learn 5 different languages. Cabeza de Vaca used his

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