The story of our nation, from the earliest discoveries to the present time ..together with a graphic account of Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippine islands .. . where their guide pretended to go crazy, and a captive declared that he knew nothing about such a u^ rich place as they were in search of. || De Soto ordered him burned for lying, and kept on, repaying all hospitality with cruel injustice. Ill take my turn now, whileyou rest, Katie, interrupted traveled on, and reached Mobile in the fall, in the land of Tus-caloosa, chief of the Mobilians, known as Black Warrior. A la
The story of our nation, from the earliest discoveries to the present time ..together with a graphic account of Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippine islands .. . where their guide pretended to go crazy, and a captive declared that he knew nothing about such a u^ rich place as they were in search of. || De Soto ordered him burned for lying, and kept on, repaying all hospitality with cruel injustice. Ill take my turn now, whileyou rest, Katie, interrupted traveled on, and reached Mobile in the fall, in the land of Tus-caloosa, chief of the Mobilians, known as Black Warrior. A large numberof braves were assembled to oppose the Spaniards, and a battle of ninehours was fought, the Spaniards winning the victory at a heavy town was fired, and the baggage of the Spaniards was burned withit, while De Soto was wounded. They spent the winter in a village ofthe Chickasaws, and the next spring De Soto ordered the chief to furnishhim with two hundred men to carry his baggage. That night, while theSpaniards slept, the Indians fired the village, and what had been savedbefore was now destroyed, leaving them as destitute as the Indians FERNANDO DE SOTO. 56 VOYAGES OF EARLY NAVIGATORS. But, with a courage worthy of a better cause, they re-tempered theirswords and made lances of ash-wood. Then they went on, discoveredthe Mississippi river, crossed it, explored as far as White River, probablyreached Tunicas, near the hot springs of the Washita, and passed thewinter at a town there. They found the natives higher in civilizationthan the wandering tribes which they had met. They had villages andcultivated the land. At last it was plain to De Soto that the expeditionwas a failure, and he determined to return by way of the Washita andRed Rivers. Just as they reached the Mississippi he died of fever and,some say, despair, and his body, wrapped in a mantle, was placed in arude log coffin, loaded with stones, and sunk in the middle of the mightyriver, so as to c
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