A history of the United States . hmarvelous tales of whathe had seen and heard(1536). These talescaused the Viceroy ofMexico, Mendoza, tosend a certain friar toinvestigate them; and,upon the facts and thenumerous errors con-tained in the friarsreport, hopes werefounded that inducedthe sending out of alarge force under Fran-cisco Vasquez Corona-do (1540-1542). Thisexpedition conqueredmany pueblo villagesof the Southwest, butobtained no gold or silver, and, after struggling as far north as Kansas, endedin a disconsolate retreat. At about the same time anotherexpedition was moving westward from F
A history of the United States . hmarvelous tales of whathe had seen and heard(1536). These talescaused the Viceroy ofMexico, Mendoza, tosend a certain friar toinvestigate them; and,upon the facts and thenumerous errors con-tained in the friarsreport, hopes werefounded that inducedthe sending out of alarge force under Fran-cisco Vasquez Corona-do (1540-1542). Thisexpedition conqueredmany pueblo villagesof the Southwest, butobtained no gold or silver, and, after struggling as far north as Kansas, endedin a disconsolate retreat. At about the same time anotherexpedition was moving westward from Florida through theGulf region, under the command of Hernando de Soto (1539-1542). This gallant man pushed northwest across the moun-tains and discovered the Tennessee River, and later the Mis-sissippi ; but he died soon after, and his followers abandonedtheir enterprise. Thus by the middle of the century no per-manent Spanish settlement had been made in what is now theUnited States. Nor was Spain long to have things her own De Soto. 18 DISCOVERY. [§14 THE FRENCH EXPLORERS. 14. French Discoveries. — As we have seen, French fisher-men were among the first to reach Newfoundland. A little later the voyage ofGiovanni da Verraza-no, a native of Flor-ence, under commissionof Francis I., showedthe dawning interest inthe New World takenby the French 1524 Verrazano ex-plored much of theNorthern coast as faras Newfoundland. In1534 and 1535 JacquesCartier ^ discoveredPrince Edward Island,sailed up the Gulfof St. Lawrence, andpenetrated the greatriver as far as thepresent site of Mont-real, fancying mostof the time that he was rapidly nearing China.^ A fewyears later he came again, bringing colonists with him;but the enterprise did not succeed, and in consequence wassoon abandoned.
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