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NARRATIVES OF DE
SOTO
Friday, the 30th, the army landed in Florida,
two
leagues from the town of an Indian
chief named Ucita. Two
hundred and thir-
teen horses were set on shore, to
unburden
the ships, that they should draw the less
water;
the seamen only remained on board, who going
up
every day a little with the tide, the end of
eight days
brought them near to the town.
So soon as the people
were come to land,
the camp was pitched on the sea-side,
nigh the
bay, which goes up close to the town.
Pres-
ently the Captain-General, Vasco
Porcallo,
taking seven horsemen with him, beat up
the
country half a league about, and discovered
six
Indians, who tried to resist him with
arrows, the weapons
they are accustomed to
use. The horsemen killed two, and
the four
others escaped, the country being
obstructed
by bushes and ponds, in which the
horses
bogged and fell, with their riders, of
weakness
from the voyage. At night the Governor,
with
a hundred men in the pinnaces, came
upon a deserted town;
for, so soon as the
Christians appeared in sight of land,
they
were descried, and all along on the coast
many
smokes were seen to rise, which the
Indians make to warn
one another. The next
day, Luis de Moscoso, Master of the
Camp,
set the men in order. The horsemen he put
in
three squadrons-the vanguard, battalion,
Object Description
| Document Number | AJ-021 |
| Document URL | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-021/ |
| Document Title | True Relation of the Vicissitudes That Attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and Some Nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of the Province of Florida Now Just Given by a Fidalgo of Elvas |
| Contributor | Bourne, Edward Gaylord, 1860-1908 (editor) and Buckingham Smith (translator) |
| Document Source | Bourne, Edward Gaylord (editor) and Buckingham Smith (translator). Narratives of the Career of Hernando De Soto in the Conquest of Florida as Told by a Knight of Elvas and in a Relation by Luys Hernandez de Beidma, Factor of the Expedition. Together with an Account of De Soto's Expedition Based on the Diary of Rodrigo Ranjel, His Private Secretary Translated from Oviedo's Historia General y Natural de las Indias.(New York: A.S.Barnes and Company, 1904). Volume 1, pages i-xxvii, 1-223. |
| Series | The Trail Makers: A Library of History and Exploration |
| Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Electronic Publication Date | 2003 |
| Print / Download PDF Version | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-021/print/ |
| Read Background | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-021/summary/ |
| Genre | journal; travel narrative; translation; |
| Language | English |
| Region / Country | West Indies, Gulf & Caribbean; Southeast; Great Lakes & Mississippi Valley; Mexico; |
| State / Province | Florida; Alabama; Georgia; North Carolina; South Carolina; |
| Event Date | 1538-1543 |
| Expedition / Settlement | Soto Expedition, 1539-1543 |
| Ethnicity | Spanish; Indian; |
| Key Persons & Places | Lady of Cofitachequi; Cutisachiqui; de Soto; Moscoso de Alvarado; Rio Grande; Aminoya; New Spain; Panico; Mestitam, Vera Cruz |
| Social Relations | women’s roles; Indian-white relations; communication; white attitudes; |
| Politics | diplomacy & treaties; warfare & battles; military; |
| Digital Format | xml |
| Digital Identifier | AJ-021 |
| Copyright & Access | © Copyright 2003 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin). For further information see http://www.americanjourneys.org/rights/ |
Description
| Document Number | AJ-021 |
| Document URL | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-021/ |
| Document Title | True Relation of the Vicissitudes That Attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and Some Nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of the Province of Florida Now Just Given by a Fidalgo of Elvas |
| Contributor | Bourne, Edward Gaylord, 1860-1908 (editor and introduction) and Buckingham Smith (translator) |
| Document Page | 22 |
| Document Source | Bourne, Edward Gaylord (editor) and Buckingham Smith (translator). Narratives of the Career of Hernando De Soto in the Conquest of Florida as Told by a Knight of Elvas and in a Relation by Luys Hernandez de Beidma, Factor of the Expedition. Together with an Account of De Soto's Expedition Based on the Diary of Rodrigo Ranjel, His Private Secretary Translated from Oviedo's Historia General y Natural de las Indias.(New York: A.S.Barnes and Company, 1904). Volume 1, pages i-xxvii, 1-223. |
| Series | The Trail Makers: A Library of History and Exploration |
| Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Electronic Publication Date | 2003 |
| Print / Download PDF Version | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-021/print/ |
| Read Background | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-021/summary/ |
| Genre | journal; travel narrative; |
| Page Type | text; |
| Language | English |
| Region / Country | Southeast; |
| State / Province | Florida; |
| Event Date | 1539 |
| Expedition / Settlement | Soto Expedition, 1539-1543 |
| Digital Format | jpeg |
| Digital Identifier | AJ-021-0060 |
| Copyright & Access | © Copyright 2003 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin). For further information see http://www.americanjourneys.org/rights/ |
| Full Text |
NARRATIVES OF DE SOTO Friday, the 30th, the army landed in Florida, two leagues from the town of an Indian chief named Ucita. Two hundred and thir- teen horses were set on shore, to unburden the ships, that they should draw the less water; the seamen only remained on board, who going up every day a little with the tide, the end of eight days brought them near to the town. So soon as the people were come to land, the camp was pitched on the sea-side, nigh the bay, which goes up close to the town. Pres- ently the Captain-General, Vasco Porcallo, taking seven horsemen with him, beat up the country half a league about, and discovered six Indians, who tried to resist him with arrows, the weapons they are accustomed to use. The horsemen killed two, and the four others escaped, the country being obstructed by bushes and ponds, in which the horses bogged and fell, with their riders, of weakness from the voyage. At night the Governor, with a hundred men in the pinnaces, came upon a deserted town; for, so soon as the Christians appeared in sight of land, they were descried, and all along on the coast many smokes were seen to rise, which the Indians make to warn one another. The next day, Luis de Moscoso, Master of the Camp, set the men in order. The horsemen he put in three squadrons-the vanguard, battalion, |