In the course of it Cabezade Vaca was for eight years held captive by sundry Indian tribes, and at last his escape involved ten months of arduous travel.
The Indian name for the head of a barrio, or barangay, is dato, but the word more commonly used at present is the Castilian cabeza; so that now the Indian generally denominates this native authority cabeza sa balangay.
A cabeza is charged with the collection of the tribute of his cabaceria, consisting generally of about fifty persons.
The answer was as curious as laconic: "Comer la cabezadel negro.
We cannot but recall how Cortes and his Spaniards were held by the superstitious Aztecs to have come from another world, and how Cabeza de Vaca was believed to exercise the power of God to heal the sick.
Receiving a cold and discouraging reply to Cabeza de Vaca's lofty harangue, he retired, followed by an army of adherents and vassals, to his vast domains and strong castle in Portugal.
The report of Cabeza de Vaca, commonly designated as his "Naufragios," is as yet the earliest printed source known with reference to the Rio Grande Pueblos, concerning whom it imparts some vague information.
Cabeza de Vaca begged that two of his servants might be allowed to accompany him to prepare his food and attend upon him during the voyage.
The new Adelantado was Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, famous for his shipwrecks and adventures in Florida.
On the day of Our Lady of September,[338] the church upon which Cabeza de Vaca had himself worked ever since its destruction by fire was handsomely finished.
Another of his chiefs was Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, whom he always names Abernunzo Cabessa de Bacha.
Interest in the north country, both in Spain and America, was greatly quickened by the arrival of Cabezade Vaca in Mexico after his journey across the continent.
This gourd he sent before him by messengers as a symbol of authority and to command obedience, as he had seen successfully done in the western part of Texas, when in company withCabeza de Vaca.
He was one of the three companions of Cabeza de Vaca on his historic journey across the continent from the Gulf of Mexico to Culiacán.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cabeza" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
