A Desperate Trek Cartoon Strip
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- Cabeza de vaca and all of his men depended on their breastplates, horses, lethal weapons to help keep the Indians at bay
- The expedition unraveled with frightening speed . While caught up in the excitement the commander demanded the captains to to take their ships on a exploration of the coast.
- After having to use all of their resources to live, they slaughtered their last horse. They then dragged the 15 ton rafts into the water and the 50 men crowed around and boarded each craft.
- What the men did not know they would be on a 8 year adventure that would lead to starvation, and being drenched by waves. People started fainting and became very close to death.
- 4 explorers that survived became led by thousands of Indians that fed, protected and passed prized possessions from group to the next and then became the first outsiders to behold what would become American southwest and northern mexico
- “we cured the sick, and they killed those who were well; that we came naked and barefoot, and they went about dressed and on horses and with lances; and that we did not covet anything but rather, everything they gave us we later returned and remained with nothing, and that the others had no other objective but to steal everything they found and did not give anything to anyone.”
- Cabeza de vaca wrote a note to the Indians and then went back to Spain and attached himself to the court of Charles V and was able to present his ideas to the new world. He then spent the last years of his life reminiscing his adventures in another world.
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