The indigenous population that manage to survive that De Soto encounter were merely the same population that Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (ca. b.1490- d.1588) described in his journeys with Pánfilo de Narváez (ca. b.1478- d.1528). Narváez is a Spanish explorer who held an expedition before De Soto. He arrived in the Tampa Bay area in February 1528 with three hundred men, but only a hand few survived from resistance of the natives, or starvation. With the failure of an aid ship Narváez and his men had no choice but to disembarked Florida but was lost at sea. One of the survivors was De Vaca and his literatures assisted the De Soto expedition because he followed Narváez’s previously established route of the mainland of Florida.
