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Can you imagine having to sail across the atlantic ocean to establish settlements in the year of 1527? Well, that is what Cabeza de Vaca did! Cabeza started his journey and crashed into present day Tampa florida. They then made rafts to continue their journey.In november of 1528,they made it on to thought to be present day Galveston Island, learn how Cabeza made it using his survival skills, sucsess as a healer, and respect for the native americans. Cabeza used his survival skills to make it on this adventurous trek. Something that Cabeza had to deal with was periodic hunger. There was no grocery stores for Cabeza to go to, so he had to eat whatever he could find which included,berries, rats, in is a roots, lizards, snakes, and spiders. (Document …show more content…
Well all of these, were some things that Cabeza had to deal with. Cabeza however, had developed a respect for the native americans that welcomed him in. He was provided food, shelter, and had learned how to speak over 4 different languages while under captivity of the indians. One day, Cabeza was with the indians and had run into the spaniards who were spanish soldiers. “They wanted to slave the indians we brought with us, we were told that we had been lost for a long time, and of ill fortune and no worth, and that they were the lords of the land whom shall be obeyed by the indians.”(Document D) “The indians were, not at all convinced. We came from where the sun rose and, and the spaniards, came where it set. We cured the sick, and the spaniards killed those who are well.” (Document D) This states that Cabeza stayed with the indians, even how they were being treated, that he respected them. Cabeza de Vaca was an adventurer. He was one of the last four people to actually survive this journey. Without his skills in survival, his knowledge and success of being healer, or his respect if the indians, he probably would not have been able to have survived this long adventure. Cabeza is one of the most interesting and influential explores to ever

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