How Did Cabeza Survive His Journey

He then shipwrecked on Isle de Malhado in November, 1528. The reasons that he survived are because he had great wilderness skills, he was a very good healer, and he had respect for the Native Americans. One of the reasons that Cabeza survived was because he had great wilderness skills. De Vaca survived was because he ate whatever was available and he wasn’t a very picky person.

Cabeza de Vaca was lost and alone in the swamp wetlands of the San Antonio Bay. He was naked, his feet were covered in mud, and he was covered in mosquitoes, but he was still able to survive. Cabeza de Vaca was on a expedition with Panfilo de Narvaez along with 300 other men to establish settlements along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The 300 men were ordered to leave the ships by Panfilo de Narvaez on modern-day Tampa Bay, Florida to search for treasure. While they were all looking for their treasure, they didn't know that the would never see their ships again. Now the only thing that mattered was not colonization, it was survival. Cabeza de Vaca survived by healing the native americans, respecting the native americans, and using his wilderness skills to survive.

Cabeza de Vaca survived because of his success as a healer. Being a healer for the indian tribes he met along his journey helped him gain respect and trust of the indians.(C) This would have made the indians want to keep

Cabeza De Vaca survived because of his success as a healer, respect for the natives, and his wilderness and survival skills. Although these are probably the most important reasons of why he survived there may be many more. Cabeza De Vaca was one of only four men that made it to Mexico City. Cabeza was not the person leading the expedition, he was just leading his

Being one of four survivors out of a crew of 250 on the expedition Cabeza de Vaca was a part of, was not a walk in the park. Cabeza was on a ship setting sail for the New World, in 1527, when his ship was blown off course and landed him in Galveston Island, Texas. The Native Americans living in Galveston eventually became his slave owners for two years before he escaped. He encountered many obstacles including starvation, thirst, unfamiliarity, slavery, etc. He endured all of these over a course of seven years, before he made it out alive. The question that remains is, how did Cabeza de Vaca survive all of this? Cabeza survived, because he was very resourceful, he had the advantage of being able to

Lastly, Cabeza had amazing wilderness skills. As it shows in Document A, “Cabeza made a 2,500 mile walk to Mexico City. While on that adventure he crossed many rivers, mountains, and deserts.” Also, “In 1529 Cabeza De Vaca fought starvation as a slave and survived” (Document B). “One other amazing thing that Cabeza did to stay warm was finding a tree that had been struck by sighting and using that was a light and heat source.”

Cabeza de Vaca survived because of his survival skills, his success as a healer, and his respect for Native Americans. Cabeza de Vaca survived because of his wilderness/survival skills. “With other raft survivors adrift in the gulf of Mexico, Cabeza drank water stored in hollowed-out horse-leg containers” (Document B). In Document A, there is a map, that shows how Cabeza had to go through large rivers, deserts, mountain ranges, and he had met up with some Native American tribes in which Cabeza was not welcome. To accomplish these things, he needed great survival skills.

These feats were not easy and Cabeza de Vaca achieved it all and lived to tell the tale. Cabeza de Vaca survived by using his wilderness skills, having success as a healer, being respectful and building relationships with the Natives. One way Cabeza de Vaca survived was by utilizing his advanced wilderness skills. As it shows

Cabeza was a strong smart man, when he was “thirsty he would drink water stored in hollowed-out horse-leg containers. When he was hungry as a slave he ate what was available, including berries, mollusks, rats, roots, lizards, snakes, and spiders. ”(Doc. B) With these wilderness skills, he lived through all of it, wasn't fun but better than

Cabeza survived because of his wilderness skills, by using all the resources he had like eating horses (I’ve eaten horse in Kazakhstan, it tastes good actually!), since there was a lack of water, he hollowed out horse legs and filled them with water whenever he had the chance. He also watched what the natives ate, so he did the same since he was enslaved, and there was hardly any food. He learned the charrucos language and sign language to communicate to the Indians when he ran away from the Indians that enslaved him. “Cabeza learned 4 native american languages including charrucos plus sign language. Cabeza drank

This famous conquistador did many things, but I think the one linking most with his survival on his harsh journey was his wilderness skills. “Cabeza de Vaca drank water stored in hollowed out horse leg containers” (document B). Document A displays the treacherous distance of his walk and the terrain he would have to travel through. These display how he used the environment and his materials to his advantage such as the horse legs. It also shows that Cabeza must have had lots of skills to wayfare that long distance with almost no

However, he then goes on to say how deeply moved they were, which is somewhat ironic. It's almost as if Cabeza de Vaca and his followers know that the Indians aren't truly unworthy creatures but they use what everybody already agrees upon to manipulate their supposed worthiness and justify their claims. He also goes on to explain the warrior-like tendencies of the Indians and how fierce and relentless they are. He describes them by saying, "whoever has to fight Indians must take great care not to let them think he is disheartened or that he covets what they own. In war they must be treated very harshly, for should they notice either fear or greed, as a people they know how to bide their time waiting for revenge and take courage from their enemies' fears. After using up all their arrows, they part, each going his own way, without attempting pursuit, although one side might have more men than the other. Such is their custom." (68) They have these customs that are very unnatural and are not normative behavior. Cabeza de Vaca refers to the customs of the Charruco Indians with great

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions, Andres Dorantes, Alonzo del Castillo Maldonado, and Estevan were the sole survivors of a four hundred men expedition. The group of them went about the friendly Indian tribes preforming miracles of healing, with the power of Christianity. At one time five sick persons were brought into the camp, and the Indians insisted that Castillo should cure them. At sunset he pronounced a blessing over the sick, and all the Christians united in a prayer to God, asking him to restore the sick to health, and on the following morning there was not a sick person among them. De Vaca and his companions reached the Pacific coast where the Indians, showed signs of civilization, living in houses covered with straw, wearing cotton clothes and dressed skins, with belts and ornaments of stone, and cultivating their fields, but had been driven therefrom by the brutal Spanish soldiery and had taken refuge in the mountains, de Vaca and his comrades, being regarded as emissaries from the Almighty, exercised such power over these untutored savages that, at their bidding, the Indians returned to their deserted habitations, and began again to cultivate their fields, the assurance being given them by de Vaca and his companions that henceforth they would

Cabeza de Vaca changed drastically though his journey. When he starts off he’s very much focused on doing this for God and king, but he slowly becomes less concerned with that. He also develops a more accepting and worldly mind. When he first meets Native Americans he terrified that they’re going to sacrifice him#, because that’s the stereotype of the natives, but they are in fact very kind and offer him and his men fish and roots to eat. However, the Cabeza de Vaca from the end of the book would know better. He develops a lot of empathy for the natives and their plight at the hands of the Spanish,

Cabeza de Vaca was known for his discovery of America. He documented his trek in America, as a lost traveler, exposed to unfamiliar territory, multiple hardships, and the native Indian tribes. His journal entry over his reencounters with the Christians is only a small record over his adventures on the whole Narvaez Expedition of 1528. The document was published in Spain, 1542, at a time when dispute over the mistreatment of natives in America in their colonization became a subject to resolve. His journal entry discusses his brief experience in an Indian tribe, the news he receives of nearby Spanish men penetrating the tribal communities, and the realization that the “Christians” were not a character he thought they were. Cabeza de Vaca sympathized the indigenous tribes and believed that they should not face the cruelty the Spanish settlers set in order to