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A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 By: A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.] |
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OF LOUISIANA, EMBRACING TRANSLATIONS OF MANY RARE AND VALUABLE DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE NATURAL, CIVIL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THAT STATE. COMPILED WITH HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, AND AN INTRODUCTION, BY
B. F. FRENCH, Member of the Louisiana Historical Society; of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science; Honorary Member of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania; Corresponding Member of the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia, etc., etc. PART II. PHILADELPHIA:
DANIELS AND SMITH. New York , G. P. PUTNAM; Boston , LITTLE AND BROWN; New Orleans , B. M.
NORMAN; London , JOHN CHAPMAN; Paris , GALIGNANI AND CO.
1850. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by B. F. FRENCH, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA:
PRINTED BY T. K. & P. G. COLLINS.
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LOUISIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY BENJAMIN F. FRENCH.
[The following is an excerpt from this volume.
(note of etext transcriber.)]
A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF HERNANDO DE SOTO INTO FLORIDA. BY A GENTLEMAN OF ELVAS. PUBLISHED AT EVORA 1557. TRANSLATED FROM THE PORTUGUESE BY RICHARD HACKLUYT. LONDON, 1609.
CAPTAIN SOTO was the son of a squire of Xerez of Badajoz . He went into
the Spanish Indies , when Peter Arias of Avila was Governor of the
West Indies . And there he was without anything else of his own, save
his sword and target: and for his good qualities and valor, Peter
Arias made him captain of a troop of horsemen, and by his commandment
he went with Fernando Pizarro to the conquest of Peru : where (as
many persons of credit reported, which were there present) as well at
the taking of Atabalipa , Lord of Peru , as at the assault of the city
of Cusco , and in all other places where they found resistance,
wheresoever he was present, he passed all other captains and principal
persons. For which cause, besides his part of the treasure of
Atabalipa , he had a good share; whereby in time he gathered a hundred
and four score thousand ducats together, with that which fell to his
part; which he brought into Spain; whereof the Emperor borrowed a
certain part, which he repaid again with 60,000 rials of plate in the
rent of the silks of Granada , and all the rest was delivered him in
the contractation house of Seville . He took servants to wit, a
steward, a gentleman usher, pages, a gentleman of the horse, a
chamberlain, lackeys, and all other officers that the house of a noble
may require. From Seville he went to the court, and in the court,
there accompanied him John Danusco of Seville , and Lewis Moscoso
D'Alvarado , Nuño de Touar , and John Rodriguez Lobillo . Except
John Danusco , all the rest came with him from Peru : and every one of
them brought fourteen or fifteen thousand ducats: all of them went well
and costly appareled. And although Soto of his own nature was not
liberal, yet because that was the first time that he was to show himself
in the court, he spent frankly, and went accompanied with those which I
have named, and with his servants, and many others which resorted unto
him. He married with Donna Isabella de Bobadilla , daughter of Peter
Arias of Avila , Earl of Punno en Rostro . The Emperor made him the
Governor of the Isle of Cuba , and Adelantado or President of
Florida ; with a title of Marquis of certain part of the lands that he
should conquer. When Don Ferdinando had obtained the government, there came a
gentleman from the Indies to the court, named Cabeça de Vaca , which
had been with the Governor Pamphilo de Narvaez which died in
Florida , who reported that Narvaez was cast away at sea with all the
company that went with him. And how he with four more escaped and
arrived in Nueva España . Also he brought a relation in writing, of
that which he had seen in Florida ; which said in some places: In such
a place I have seen this; and the rest which here I saw, I leave to
confer of between his Majesty and myself... Continue reading book >>
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