<P> During his absence, Irala had stirred up resistance to Cabeza de Vaca's rule and capitalized on political rivalries . Scholars widely agree that Cabeza de Vaca had an unusually sympathetic attitude towards the Native Americans for his time . The elite settlers in modern Argentina, known as encomenderos, generally did not agree with his enlightened conduct toward the Natives; they wanted to use them for labor . Because he lost elite support, and Buenos Aires was failing as a settlement, not attracting enough residents, Martínez de Irala arrested Cabeza de Vaca in 1544 for poor administration . The former explorer was returned to Spain in 1545 for trial . </P> <P> Although eventually exonerated, Cabeza de Vaca never returned to South America . He wrote an extensive report on the Río de la Plata colony in South America, strongly criticizing the conduct of Martínez de Irala . The report was bound with his earlier La Relación and published under the title Comentarios (Commentary). He died poor in Seville around the year 1560 . </P> <P> La relación of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca is the account of his experiences with the Narvaez expedition and after being wrecked on Galveston Island in November 1528 . Cabeza de Vaca and his last three men struggled to survive . They wandered along the Texas coast as prisoners of the Han and Capoque American Indians for two years, while Cabeza de Vaca observed the people, picking up their ways of life and customs . They traveled through the American Southwest and ultimately reached Mexico City, nearly eight years after being wrecked on the island . </P> <P> In 1537, Cabeza de Vaca returned to Spain, where he wrote his narratives of the Narvaez expedition . These narratives were collected and published in 1542 in Spain . They are now known as The Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca . The narrative of Cabeza de Vaca is the "first European book devoted completely to North America ." His detailed account describes the lives of numerous tribes of American Indians of the time . Cabeza de Vaca showed compassion and respect for native peoples, which, together with the great detail he recorded, distinguishes his narrative from others of the period . </P>

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