Brief Summary: Cabeza De Vaca

Cabeza De Vaca walked through swamps, deserts, and mountains, learned four different Native American languages, and was a slave to not-so-savage savages for over four years. He was a Spanish Conquistador who left Spain in 1527 to establish colonies in the New World, but as he was entering the Gulf of Mexico his ship was blown off course. Cabeza and his crew left the ships to look for treasure inland, but when they came back their ships were gone. They melted their weapons and made rafts in an attempt to sail to Mexico, but they drifted out to sea, and only one made it back to shore. Cabeza and his fellow survivors were captured by Native Americans, and after over four years of slavery in 1532, they escaped to Mexico City. What did Cabeza De