Essay On Cabeza De Vaca

The Journey Of An Explorer Cabeza De Vaca a guy who came to Texas and wasn’t even planning on coming here helped colonize it to what Texas is today. Cabeza originally heading towards Mexico and ended crashing into what is now modern day Galveston Island and made Texas what it is today. Cabeza traveled all the way around Texas and soon met up with an Indian tribe who took him as a work slave which he soon escaped from them and he and his partners walked to Mexico city over a 21 month trip and a lot of friendly and not friendly indian tribes. Cabeza De Vaca: How did he survive? Cabeza survived because he had amazing wilderness skills, his success as a healer, and his respect for Native Americans. Cabeza De Vaca survived because of his wilderness skills.”Lost and completely naked Cabeza De Vaca used a lit branch and kept himself war. At night he lit four trees around the pit he dug the like points on the cross (Document B).” “Cabeza learned the 4 indian languages, including charrucos, plus sign language (Document B).” “ Cabeza ate berries what was available and for thirst Cabeza drank water from hollowed out horse legs (Document B).” Cabeza had to drink and eat whatever was available because he didn’t know whenever he was going to get his next meal and his strategies were good because …show more content…
With a knife that I had, I opened his chest to that place…. I inserted the knife and with great difficulty, at last I pulled it out (Document C).”That cure gave us very a very good reputation among them throughout the whole land (Document C).” Cabeza made it through Texas without only having a few bad encounters with the indians just because of curing that guy. Cabeza stayed with a lot of tribes because he knew the languages and because of his