A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . of clear hunger and debihty about thecamp where they came to beg. The governor ordered, under heavypenalties, that nothing should be given them to appease their hunger;but to the credit of his men the orders were not rigidly obeyed, for the Christians, seeing that even the hogs had their bellies full, andthat these poor Indians came and took so
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . of clear hunger and debihty about thecamp where they came to beg. The governor ordered, under heavypenalties, that nothing should be given them to appease their hunger;but to the credit of his men the orders were not rigidly obeyed, for the Christians, seeing that even the hogs had their bellies full, andthat these poor Indians came and took so much pains to serve them, 170 SPANISH DISCOVERIES AND EXPLORATIONS. [Chap. VII. and whose extreme misery they could not but pity, charitably gavethem of the maes they had, — a weakness they reproached themselvesfor afterward, when they loaded their vessels with stores for thevoyage and had room for more. These boats were finished in June. Most of the horses and all the^^ ^ ^ hogs were killed for provisions, and on the 2d of July, 1543,down the the expedition, reduced now to three hundred and seventv- Mississippi. ^ J two persons, embarked for the voyage down the were seventeen days in reaching the mouth of the river, fighting. Departure of the Spaniards. their way on the water as they had always done on the land, for theIndians grew the more aggressive with the hope that they were seeingthe last of the hated white men. Sailing out into the Gulf, pursuedto the last moment by the natives, they cruised for fifty days alongthe coast of Louisiana and Texas, till they reached the Spanish colonyof Panuco. Haggard, gaunt, half-naked, having only a scanty cover-ing of skins, looking more like wild beasts than men, they kissed theground when they landed among their countrymen, and on bendedknees, with hands raised above them, and their eyes to heaven re-mained untiring in giving thanks to God. But the relation of such hardships as these men endured, fol-lowing upon the
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