Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . FERNANDO DR SOTO- DB SOTO, FERNANDO. DE SOTO DISCOVERING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. steel and riding 113 horses, with manyfootmen armed with arquebuses, cross-bows, swords, shields, and lances, and asingle cannon, and supplied with savagebloodhounds from Cuba, and handcuffs,iron neck-collars, and chains for the cap-tives, De Soto began his march in June,1539. He was accompanied by mechanics,priests, inferior clergy, and monks insacerdotal robes bearing images of theVirgin, holy relic
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . FERNANDO DR SOTO- DB SOTO, FERNANDO. DE SOTO DISCOVERING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. steel and riding 113 horses, with manyfootmen armed with arquebuses, cross-bows, swords, shields, and lances, and asingle cannon, and supplied with savagebloodhounds from Cuba, and handcuffs,iron neck-collars, and chains for the cap-tives, De Soto began his march in June,1539. He was accompanied by mechanics,priests, inferior clergy, and monks insacerdotal robes bearing images of theVirgin, holy relics, and sacramental breadand wine, wherewith to make Christiansof the captured pagans. At the very outset the expedition metwith determined opposition from the duskyinhabitants, but De Soto pressed forwardtowards the interior of the fancied landof gold. He wintered east of the FlintUiver, near Tallahassee, on the borders ofGeorgia, and in March, 1540, broke up hisencampment and marched northward, hav-ing been told that gold would be found inthat direction. He reached the SavannahRiver, at Silver Bluff. On the oppositeside of the stream, in (presen
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