Cabeza de Vaca Cabeza de Vaca was a spanish conquistador who led a five ship 600 man-expedition to Florida. Cabeza de Vaca was not a good leader, and only became leader because the old leader failed miserably. The moment they left for the expedition it was a disaster. The moment the Spaniards entered the Caribbean it was just a disaster, after losing two ships in a hurricane and over 200 men by drowning and desertion. Cabeza de Vaca was a very will powered man. He didn’t care if he lost men, ships, as long as he reached the goals he had set everything was okay. He didn’t really care about the safety of his men, clearly. As soon as they had entered the Caribbean it was a huge mess. He had lost 2 ships, and over 200 men by drowning and