. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . e than I have expected, he answered calmly,when told of his condition; and I submit without a murmurto the will of God. Ho called the officers together, and bade them choose his suc-cessor; then, when they left the choice to him, nominated De Mos-coso. He counselled them as to their future course, and entrustedDe Moscoso with a message for Donna Isabella. He took leave ofthe soldiers, whose every hardship he had shared, whose everydanger he had braved; and May 21, 1542, he died. Secretly, at night, they dug his grave; silently they loweredhis body
. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . e than I have expected, he answered calmly,when told of his condition; and I submit without a murmurto the will of God. Ho called the officers together, and bade them choose his suc-cessor; then, when they left the choice to him, nominated De Mos-coso. He counselled them as to their future course, and entrustedDe Moscoso with a message for Donna Isabella. He took leave ofthe soldiers, whose every hardship he had shared, whose everydanger he had braved; and May 21, 1542, he died. Secretly, at night, they dug his grave; silently they loweredhis body into it; fearful that the Indians, if they knew of hisdeath, would fall upon his followers and destroy them next day they announced to the natives that the leader wasbetter, although not yet able to leave his tent; and to concealtheir grief, they instituted a sort of tournament. Backward andforward over the grave of their general they rode, apparently inthe greatest joy. The impassible savages looked on, and sus-pected the BURIAL OF DE SOTO. The searching inquiries of the cacique soon revealed this sus-picion to the Spaniards, and fearful that the grave of De Sotowould be desecrated as they had defiled the Indian tombs, theyexhumed his body, and weighting the winding-sheet heavily withsand, lowered it, at midnight, silently into the Mississippi. Th<
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