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Cabeza De Vaca's The Relation: Summary

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The reading that most interested me was Cabeza de Vaca’s The Relation. In this writing, Cabeza de Vaca sets out on an exploration to the New World and is shipwrecked and stranded with the Capoque and Han Native Americans and then the Avavares and Arbadaos Native Americans. Although he is stranded, he feels sympathetic towards the Native Americans and shows his anger towards the other violent explorers. The three most important lines in the writing begin with one on page 32. “They have other strange customs, but I have told the principal and most remarkable of them.” This shows that Cabeza de Vaca was stranded and thought that the Native Americans were strange and had a completely different culture than his people. While thinking this, he also
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