Discovery

     In "La Relacion" Cabeza de Vaca and his crew are starved, weak, and looking for land.  He tells the story of how he was at the mercy of the natives when he landed on Galveston Island.  The natives fortunately take him and his crew in and shelter them well.  Disease strikes the natives however and the men are forced to be healers.  De Vaca returns to Spain in the hopes of being regarded a hero.

     Throughout the story de Vaca embellishes himself with bias. Right from the get-go he states that all his men are starved and weak, and that he is the only one capable of navigating his crew. When they are approaches the island he writes that the ground is plowed, therefore Christians must be on the land because he thinks Christians are the only ones capable of taming animals. De Vaca exaggerates when he says that 100 natives with arrows were looking down on him in order to sound more heroic.  At the end of the story De Vaca tells that instead of doing the weird healing customs of the natives, he instead prays to God and shows the natives the power of Christ.  De Vaca used all of the bias so that he would look better for the king and could be labeled a hero back in Spain.