Comparing Cabeza's Trek Across Texas And Mexico

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You just crashed on an unknown island with forty nine other men and no supplies. Cabeza de Vaca was shipwrecked on an island with only a few other men in 1527. He was forced to walk through Texas and Mexico for eight years. Cabeza de Vaca: How did he survive? Cabeza de Vaca survived because of his wilderness skills, his success as a healer, and his respect for the Native Americans.
Cabeza de Vaca survived because of his wilderness and survival skills. In “Cabeza’s Trek Across Texas and Mexico”, the map shows his terrain and landscape through the “Sierra Madre Oriental” and a large desert (Document A). “Cabeza drank water stored in hollowed-out horse-leg containers”(Document B). Found in Cabeza’s art of survival (Document B), “Lost and Completely

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