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CHAPTER III HERNANDO DE SOTO HERNANDO DE SOTO was about thirty - six years of age when he was appointed adelantado of Florida . He was " a gentleman by all four descents , " and had recently been created by the Emperor a knight of the ...
CHAPTER III HERNANDO DE SOTO HERNANDO DE SOTO was about thirty - six years of age when he was appointed adelantado of Florida . He was " a gentleman by all four descents , " and had recently been created by the Emperor a knight of the ...
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... Soto hoped to find there another Peru . · The news of De Soto's expedition took his countrymen by storm . When Vaca , fresh from his wanderings , appeared at court and told his great tale , the enthusiasm increased . Rich nobles sold ...
... Soto hoped to find there another Peru . · The news of De Soto's expedition took his countrymen by storm . When Vaca , fresh from his wanderings , appeared at court and told his great tale , the enthusiasm increased . Rich nobles sold ...
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... Soto mustered his volunteers for review at the port of Sanlúcar . Here he scanned them carefully and picked out his men , who were then counted and enlisted . They num- bered six hundred . And , considering the small size of the ships ...
... Soto mustered his volunteers for review at the port of Sanlúcar . Here he scanned them carefully and picked out his men , who were then counted and enlisted . They num- bered six hundred . And , considering the small size of the ships ...
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... Soto said farewell to his wife and sailed from Havana for Florida , the land still reputed to be " the richest of any which until then had been discovered " ; and on the thir- tieth he landed his men near an Indian town on Tampa Bay ...
... Soto said farewell to his wife and sailed from Havana for Florida , the land still reputed to be " the richest of any which until then had been discovered " ; and on the thir- tieth he landed his men near an Indian town on Tampa Bay ...
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... Soto established head- quarters there and sent out several companies of horse and foot to explore . He ordered the woods felled " the distance of a crossbow shot " around the town . He set sentinels about the place and de- tailed ...
... Soto established head- quarters there and sent out several companies of horse and foot to explore . He ordered the woods felled " the distance of a crossbow shot " around the town . He set sentinels about the place and de- tailed ...
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