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A Very Brief Summary: Cabeza De Vaca

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Cabeza de vaca was stranded on texas after their boats had disappeared he was left there with 300 men how would they all get out alive. They were on a colonizing trip and when they told the men to look for tesur and returns there was no boat in sight. How did cabeza de vaca serve through all of this and make it to mexico city.
One reason cabeza de vaca survived was because he was a healer when he was near a tribe they seemed helpful and nice they gave im food water and a place to sleep until they became slave master and captured by the slave masters at one point while in slavery he held one of them who had a arrow thor there heart when he was done with the surgery he was respected and they loosened up on him until

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