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 . th to entreaties andthreats, defied him. It was easy enough to provoke an Spaniard replied to some haughty words from a chief by laying hisback open with a cutlass, and all the Indians sprung to their Battle withbows and arrows. Every house was an ambuscade, and be- *^^ the Christians could fly to the fields five of them
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 . th to entreaties andthreats, defied him. It was easy enough to provoke an Spaniard replied to some haughty words from a chief by laying hisback open with a cutlass, and all the Indians sprung to their Battle withbows and arrows. Every house was an ambuscade, and be- *^^ the Christians could fly to the fields five of them were those who escaped was De Soto, who, forming his troops,at once invested the town, and led the assault, the soldiers carryingtheir arms in one hand and a torch in the other. The defence wasbrave, desperate, and useless. A contest between naked savages andmen, many of whom were mounted, and all were in armor, wasrather a hunting-chase than a battle. Twenty-five hundred of theIndians were speedily put to the sword, or were driven to tortureand death by suffocation in the smoke and flames of their ownhouses ; of the Spaniards, eighteen only were killed, and one hun-dred and fifty received arrow wounds from which they quickly recov-. 164 SPANISH DISCOVERIES AND EXPLORATIONS. [Chap. VII. ered.^ Their most serious loss was of the property destroyed by thefire, for at the first desperate onset, before the Spaniards had time torally, the chains of the captives were stricken off and their burdenstaken within the palisades. De Soto was now, as he learned from the Indians, within six days ofPensacofa (Ochuse), where some of his ships awaited news of he concealed the fact from his own men, lest they should deserthim, and held no communication with the ships, for he preferred thatas yet there should be no tidings sent to Cuba of the expedition. Hispearls, the only thing of value he had found, were all lost; he hadlittle else to report than continued misfortune, and t
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