Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Explorer

Spanish explorer and chronicler of early colonial expeditions in North America and South America. His account La Relacion is a major firsthand narrative of 16th-century exploration and survival.

Quotes by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.
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