Research Paper On Cabeza De Vaca

Imagine hiking roughly 2,000 miles while facing incredibly dangerous blazing hot deserts and steep mountains and doing that in 21 months. In the spring of 1527, five Spanish ships left the port of Seville and headed for the new world. Cabeza set out with 300 other men to shore where they would start a very long expedition. Cabeza drifted out to sea on a raft and came back to shore into current day Galveston, Texas. In the fall of 1532 Cabeza de Vaca started the long trek with three other survivors from modern day Texas to modern day Mexico City, and he

It all started when he ran into an Indian tribe with one man that had an arrow stuck in his chest, above his heart. When Cabeza stopped in the village with the injured Indian, the first thing the tribe asked him was if he could get the arrowhead out of the indian. Cabeza then proceeded to extract arrowhead out of the indian. Afterwards, the word spread that he was a good man, and could heal an injury as bad as that one. So every time he went to a village in that area where he healed the indian the villages always welcomed him and let him stay there.
The main reason Cabeza survived is because of survival skills. Without survival skills he would not have survived the journey. For instance; not many people would think of storing water in a hollowed out horse leg! Also he had the smart idea to keep a tree branch that was struck by lightning on fire to keep him and his companions warm. As stated in document B. If he didn’t do any of those things to survive he would have died half way along the