. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... THE COAST OF FLORIDA. Bahamas, from which they sailed to the NorthAmericar coast, reaching it at or near sound, in the present State of SouthCarolina. The Indians had not yet learnedto fear the whites, and were utterly unsus-picious of the fate which awaited them. Theywere timid at first, but this feeling was soonovercome by the distribution of presentsamong them. Their confidence being won,they received the Spaniards with kindness,and at their req
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... THE COAST OF FLORIDA. Bahamas, from which they sailed to the NorthAmericar coast, reaching it at or near sound, in the present State of SouthCarolina. The Indians had not yet learnedto fear the whites, and were utterly unsus-picious of the fate which awaited them. Theywere timid at first, but this feeling was soonovercome by the distribution of presentsamong them. Their confidence being won,they received the Spaniards with kindness,and at their request visited the ships. 52 DISCOVERY OF THE WESTERN CONTINENT. When the decks of the vessels were cov-ered with the unsuspecting natives Vasquezmade sail, and standing out to scj Steered forthe West Indies, regardless of the entreatiesof the natives who were thus torn from theirfriends and relatives on the shore. A retrib-utive justice speedily avenged this violent storm arose and one of the shipsfoundered with all on board. A pestilencebroke out in the remaining vessel, and swept.*way many of the captives. Returning to. HERNANDO CORTEZ. Spain, Vasquez boasted of his infamous deed,and even claimed a reward for it at the handsof the Emperor Charles V., who acknow-ledged his claim, and appointed him governorof Chicora, as South Carolina was called, withauthority to conquer that country. Vasquezspent his entire fortune in fitting out an expe-dition, and reached the coast of Chicora in 1525- There he met with nothing but largest ship was stranded in the Cora- bahee River, then called by the whites theRiver Jordan, and so many of his men werekilled by the Indians that he was obliged toabandon the undertaking. He returned toEurope to die of grief and mortification forhis failure. It may be, says Bancroft, that ships sailing under his authority madethe discovery of the Chesapeake and namedit the Bay of St. Mary; and perhaps even en-tered the Bay of Delaware, whi
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