Adventures into the Unknown Interior of America Cabeza de Vaca READ 53 PAGES EVERY NIGHT Read preface will give us a better idea of what this is proem De Vaca s report to the king afterword and epilogue why this is important for us super carefully What is the narrative s purpose What does it tell us Remember names of tribes What happened when he met and lived with a particular community Major characters events issues De Vaca and Estev nico and the 2 other survivors Important characters to follow Galveston Island of Malhado Take good notes on these happenings Gendered behavior of tribes people women will be true false and multiple choice on a timed slide Extra credit is a verbal prompt Take good notes on the gendered behaviors of the people that he lives with What are the gendered divisions Dates it was published Read about the author the thesis Establish the thesis The argument The main point Ask Why is this book important Why should I read it Read the preface to learn why they re writing the report Determine your thesis in the first few chapters Apalachen Apalachee Indians gave the Appalachian Mountains their name They captured 4 Indians and kept them as guides Apalachen village o Corn with bowls used to grind it Consisted of 40 low small thatch houses set up in sheltered places They saw deer rabbits bears and panthers They also saw opposums While in the Apalachen villiage the Indians came and asked for their women and children to be released The Governor held back one of their caciques chiefs so they attacked them The Indians on the other side of the lake where they were hiding attacked them too They had captured different Indigenous people along the way and they were enemies and neighbors plus the chief of the Apalachee They would help them learn about the land The Apalachen was the biggest town in the region The Indians told them about the Aute their friends had plenty of corn melons and beans Also fish because they were near the sea The Apalachen guerilla tactics were ruthless wounding our people and horses when they went for water They also killed a cacique of Tezcuco whom the Commissary had brought with him de Vaca describes the Indians as big and naked and from a distance looked like giants They were handsomely proportioned lean agile and strong The group rested at the village of Aute for two days after finding it deserted and the houses burned But corn squash and beans were plentiful and beginning to ripen He went back to tell the Governor of the inlets they found and found him and many others sick after having been attacked yet again It was probably malaria what started killing off all the guys Many men decided to desert the group saying that they stood a better chance if unencumbered by the prostrated Governor and largely prostrated infantry He often mentions that they ve put their faith in the Lord and that they many times relied on him to help them survive and make it through things To get food now they sent men and horses into Aute to get corn and stuff and they killed a horse every three days to help feed people They used palmetto husks horsetails and manes to braid ropes and riggings They used their shirts to make sails and junipers made oars They flayed the horses legs and tanned the skin then used it to make water bottles They had traveled approximately 280 leagues to reach their first Florida campsite what they named The Cross The day they left The Cross they only had one horse left and had lost 40 men from disease and Indian attacks They set out from the bay that they named Vaya de Cavallos The Bay Of Horses 5 men died from unrestrainedly drinking salt water because they were all so thirsty They reached what is near Pensacola and found some Indians They had clay jars of water and cooked fish They presented this to our men and we gave them corn and little trinkets Those asshole Indians fell on our guys in the middle of the night They attacked three times injuring the Governor with a rock to the face Not one man managed to escape unhurt They then found more Indians and traded a couple men to go find water and they took a few Indians as hostage so they had some leverage The Indians came back without their men Doroteo Teodoro was one of the men who were lost He offered to go and we now believe he had no intention of returning and he went to escape because he thought it was his best chance of survival Him and his servant may have lived on many years Canoes of Indians showed up the next morning ordering their men that we had hostage be released We refused and more and more Indians showed up until they eventually were driven away by strong winds The chiefs were distinguishable in the group they looked comelier more commanding and better disciplined than any Indians we had yet seen although not as big as some spoken of before Their hair hung loose and long and they wore marten robes 10 fathoms is 60 feet They found they could get fresh water from the river the Mississippi which they d just discovered that was emptying into the sea The Governer told Cabeza that it was no longer a time to be taking orders from one another but instead doing what one thought they should to survive With that he left Cabeza and another ship behind and headed to shore They were all basically dead men looking when they landed on November 6th They were on Galveston Island They met the Indians and made friends The men were greeted with welcoming arms from the Indians They gave them food and built them a hut They find that men like themselves have been to a camp a while back They send men and two Indians to find them They met the people Captains Andres Dorantes and Alonso del Castillo and their crew who had been shipwrecked as well They decided to stay where they were since the ship was messed up and they were naked They sent four of their best men Alvaro Fernandez a certain Mendez Figueroa and Astudillo of Zafra They also send an Indian from the Island of Auia Galveston Some men quartered on the shore started eating each other Only one body remained because he had nobody else to eat Their names were Sierra Diego Lopez Corral Palacios and Gonzalo Ruiz The Indians were shocked and then our diseases killed half the Indians so they got pissed We named this place Malhado The Island of Doom The men of Mahaldo pierced their nipples and lips with cane All they had were bows and arrows and they were awesome at shooting them They are tall and well built The women of Mahaldo toil incessantly MAHALDO WAY
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