Why Did Cabeza De Vaca Survive?

Some people have got lost but one person has been lost for a long time.Cabeza de Vaca was an adventurer who got lost and had to survive for a long time. Around 1527 Cabeza de Vaca set sail for his adventure for land or “The New World”. The leader of this journey was Panfilo de Narvaez, or known as a conquistador. Cabeza was a 37 year old man who would be the treasurer of the expedition. Their first stop was Cuba, which was winter when they were there, then they set sail for the northeastern Gulf of Mexico.But how did Cabeza de Vaca Survive?(Background Essay) One way that Cabeza de Vaca survived was wilderness skills, but what did Cabeza do for skills? So when Cabeza de Vaca washed ashore he killed his horses and used it for food and used the horse legs as a canister for water. But soon all of the horses are gone, so Cabeza de Vaca ate berries, mollusks, rats, roots, lizards, snakes, and spiders.Also
Cabeza lit a branch in the dying flames and kept the torch burning as Cabeza walked. Each night Cabeza huddled in a hole that Cabeza dug and around the pit cabeza put the torches around the hole too keep Cabeza warm.(Document B, A) One way that Cabeza de Vaca survived is that he respected Native Americans. When Cabeza escaped Cabeza later joined with the Charrucos, the Charrucos exchanged shells for animal hides for clothing and also flint for fire. Cabeza has learned about four languages including sign language, which is good for communicating to other tribes. In case for any danger or if Cabeza is in need the Indians can help Cabeza.(Documents A,B,C,D) Last but not least Cabeza de Vaca succeeded at being a healer which mainly goes with respect for the Natives.
The natives brought Cabeza a man, in his condition he has an arrow through his right shoulder. With his knife he dug it into the man's shoulder and pulled to make a gap with great difficulty he finally pulls out the arrow. After getting the arrow out Cabeza de Vaca put stitches on the man’s shoulder. Two days later he took out the stitches and he was healed. This was good because it made the tribe a better reputation.(Documents C,D) How did Cabeza de Vaca survive. In a real world situation you would need to use these survival skills like camping. You get lost from your family all you have is a mosquito net a flash light flint and two extra batteries. It just turned night and that's when the mosquitoes come out you set up your net and you light a fire around you and sleep there for the night. The next morning you eat berries and a snake. After breakfast you travel too find help you later find a family and they take you home.So, how did Cabeza de Vaca
survive?