Most
Americans know Cabeza de Vaca as one of the four survivors of a three
hundred man expedition to Florida in 1583. H e wandered eight years in
North America a a naked, unarmed healer of Indians and probably the
first European to describe thundering herds of buffalo.
In
1541 the same Alvero Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was penetrating southern
Brazil by canoe near what is now the riverine intersection of Brazil,
Argentina, and Paraguay. When in the distance, he saw a cloud of spray
"two spear throws or more above the treetops." He had to beach the
expedition before it plunged over the brink of an enormous waterfall. He
ha discovered Iguazú Catarata. Iguazu is as wide as three Niagras and
one hundred feet higher.
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