Read this brief background of Cabeza de Vaca and his experience in North America.
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Read this page and continue with the list of links.
You can read all of La Relacion by clicking "Next Page" from this page or continue following the list of links to read the sections we will discuss in class.
Begin reading at the top of this page. This is the book's dedication, which is to Emperor Charles V (1500-1558). He was the grandson of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, who first sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus.
Stop reading (this is still the introduction) at the bottom of the page and continue with the list of links.
After the expedition breaks up, Cabeza de Vaca and some of his colleagues are shipwrecked on an island (now called Galveston) on the coast of what is now Texas. We pick up the story there. Begin reading at "Chapter Fourteen: How Four Christians Departed" and continue following the list of links.
Stop reading at the end of Chapter Fifteen and continue following the list of links.
At this point, Cabeza de Vaca and several colleagues have escaped from the Native American tribes on the coast and headed further inland. They are being treated as healers after appearing to have cured several sick people. Begin reading at "Chapter Twenty-Two: How They Brought Other Sick People to Us the Following Day," and continue following the list of links.
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was shipwrecked in Texas and was one of the first Europeans to travel throughout the North American Southwest and parts of modern-day Mexico. This is an introduction to his life and excerpts from his own story, The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.
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