. Young folks library . he other side ofRio grande, or the great Riuer. The Gouernour sent aCaptaine with fif tie men in sixe canoes downe the Riuer,and went himseHe by land with the rest: hee came toGuachoya vpon Sunday the 17th of April: he lodgedin the towne of the Cacique, which was inclosed about,and seated a crossebow shot distant from the Riuer. . .The Gouernour fell into great dumps to see howhard it was to get to the Sea : and worse, because hismen and horses euery day diminished, being without 148 A Book of Famous Explorers succour to sustaine themselues in the country: andwith that
. Young folks library . he other side ofRio grande, or the great Riuer. The Gouernour sent aCaptaine with fif tie men in sixe canoes downe the Riuer,and went himseHe by land with the rest: hee came toGuachoya vpon Sunday the 17th of April: he lodgedin the towne of the Cacique, which was inclosed about,and seated a crossebow shot distant from the Riuer. . .The Gouernour fell into great dumps to see howhard it was to get to the Sea : and worse, because hismen and horses euery day diminished, being without 148 A Book of Famous Explorers succour to sustaine themselues in the country: andwith that thought he fell sick, . . being euill handledwith feuers, and was much aggrieued, that he was notin case to passe presently the Riuer and to seeke him,to see if he could abate that pride of his, consideringthe Riuer went now very strongly in those parts; for itwas neere halfe a league broad, and sixteen fathomesdeep, and uery furious, and ranne with .a great current;and on both sides there were many Indians, and his. Burial of de Soto. power was not now so great, but that hee had need tohelpe himseKe rather by flights than by force. . the 21. of May, 1542. departed out of this life,the valorous, virtuous, and vaHant Captaine, Don Fer-nando de Soto, Gouernour of Cuba, and Adelantado ofFlorida, whom fortune advanced, as it vseth to doeothers, that hee might haue the higher fal [fall]. Hedeparted in such a place, and at such a time, as in hissicknesse he had but little comfort: and the dangerwherein all his people were, of perishing in that Coun- The Death of de Soto 149 trie, which appeared before their eies was cause suffi-cient, why euery one of them had need of comfort, andwhy they did not visit nor accompanie him as theyought to haue done. Luys de Moscoso determined toconceale his death from the Indians, because Ferdinandode Soto had made them beleeue, That the Christianawere immortal!. . As soone as he was dead, Luis de Moscoso com-manded to put him secretly in an house, whe
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