How Did Cabeza De Vaca Survive?

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The odds were not good! The goal was no longer colonization or riches it was survival. Cabeza was on one of the five Spanish ships to the new world in the 1520s. Little did they know that the tricky currents in the Gulf of Mexico would push the ships off course and shipwrecked then landed in Galveston Island, Texas. How was Cabeza de Vaca able to serve in Galveston Island and walk back to Mexico. The three main reasons why Cabeza de Vaca survived are having great communic, Wilderness Skills, and being considered a Shaman.

The first reasons Cabeza was able to survive was becoming a Shaman. The Natives brought a man who had been wounded in his right shoulder with a arrow. So with a knife Cabeza de Vaca oped up his chest and with great difficulty