History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . s of Tampico. With three hundred men andeighty horses, he began that weird march across the was one that might well be called a road paved withhuman skulls by all who traversed its tortuous length. The conquest ofFlorida proves an in-cident meagre andpoverty-stricken, com-pared with the glor-|1^ ious discovery of themighty waterwaywhich flowed as a life-giving thoroughfarethrough fertile was de Sotosprincely gift to Spain,but gained as conquestso often records,through a battl
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . s of Tampico. With three hundred men andeighty horses, he began that weird march across the was one that might well be called a road paved withhuman skulls by all who traversed its tortuous length. The conquest ofFlorida proves an in-cident meagre andpoverty-stricken, com-pared with the glor-|1^ ious discovery of themighty waterwaywhich flowed as a life-giving thoroughfarethrough fertile was de Sotosprincely gift to Spain,but gained as conquestso often records,through a battle-gageof sickness and death. As carefully as thePilgrims hid beneaththe earth their deathroll, so did de Sotosfollowers conceal hisdemise from the In-dians, using the waterfor oblivion. De Sotosburial in the moonlight was a prototype by centuries, thoughovermatching in dramatic environment, the midnight burialof Sir John Moore in 1809. In 1514 the aged Cuban governor, Ponce de Leon,began amid Florida everglades his search for perpetualyouth. The feverish thirst for gold had ebbed; health and. Copyright F. E. IVright. BALBOA, WHO CLAIMED LARGE TERRITORYFOR SPAIN. LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS 347
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