Do any of you remember the name Cabeza DeVaca? He was a sixteenth century Spanish Explorer. He and one other person were the only survivors of a shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico. They were washed up on the Florida Coast.

In his account of his exploration of Florida and his Westford journey between the years of 1528— 1536. DeVaca tells how the Indians came to him and his companion asking them to cure the sick. The two white men were themselves half starved, lost and filled with blank despair, but the Indians felt that, being white men, they had superhuman power. Cabeza de Vaca felt that they had no such power. “But we had to heal them or die,” he wrote. “So we prayed for strength. We prayed on bended knees and in an agony of hunger.” Then they blessed each ailing Indian - and saw that the s…