USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cabeza de Vaca returned to Spain, where he wrote a full account, especially describing the many indigenous peoples they encountered. He later served the colonial government in South America.

Detailed explanation-2: -The crew steadily died off from illness, accidents and attacks until only Cabeza de Vaca and three others remained. In 1532, the four survivors set out on an arduous journey across the present-day states of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Detailed explanation-3: -After claiming the land for Spain, Narváez began an overland expedition in May with about 300 men. The force made a difficult and distressing march northward, continually fighting Indians, until the survivors reached the area of present-day St. Marks, Florida, near the end of July.

Detailed explanation-4: -After various shipwrecks, Cabeza de Vaca became the captain of a greatly diminished force of Spaniards who, in order to survive, wandered for eight years across the Southwest from Texas to California and finally to Mexico.

Detailed explanation-5: -Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca first set foot on land that would become Texas in 1528, when his crude raft ran aground near Galveston Island. The raft held survivors of an ill-fated Spanish expedition to settle Florida.