Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca participated in the most disastrous expedition to the New World and still one of the greatest epics ever told. On April 14, 1528 the expedition led by Panfilo de Narvaez landed on the coast of Florida with the intention of conquering. Of the three hundred men in the company, only Cabeza de Vaca and three companions managed to reach English soil after eight years living all kinds of perils.
Fearing the Indians of the coast and believing that in those northern territories would find gold, ascended the Rio Grande or Bravo, instead of addressing the English settlement of Panuco. During the trip to northwestern Mexico, healers exercised through the imposition of hands and the recitation of Hail Marys and Our Fathers. When Cabeza de Vaca successfully removed an arrowhead that an Indian had stuck close to the heart, the fame of healers and people who were good among the Indian tribes no longer abandoned.
will be gained from the natives and made various explorations in search of a route to return to New Spain in what is now the American Southwest and northern Mexico. After wandering for long time for the extensive area that is now the border between Mexico and the United States arrived in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Rio Bravo or Grande, along the river found tribes engaged in hunting bison that lived. Finally
Petatlán banks of the River (now called Rio Sinaloa) re-established contact with a team of English explorers in 1536 a few miles from Culiacan, English settlement.
During that trip the first ethnographic observations collected on indigenous people of the Gulf of Mexico Shipwrecks writing a story titled, now considered the first historical narrative about the United States.
Links:
GoogleVideo : BBC documentary on the epic story of Cabeza de Vaca.
Blip.tv: Chapter of the "White Nights" dedicated to the novels of travel, among the guests are writers and EloisaGómez Ruben Caballero, who know the history of Cabeza de Vaca. Document
: free online copy of the book Castaway in PDF format.
Sources: Wikipedia
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