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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
ingo, and during the following winter, amidst storms and losses, passed from port to port on the southern side of Cuba, where the experienced Miruelo was engaged as his pilot. In the spring of 1528. 1528, he doubled Cape San Antonio, and was stand- April. Cabeza de Vaca. published by Geo. W Riggs, Jr. ing in for Havana, when a strong South wind drove his fleet upon the American coast, and on the fourteenth of April, the day before Good Friday, he listed anchored in or near the outlet of Tampa Bay. On the day before Easter the Governor landed, and in the name of Spain took possession of the floating peninsula of Florida. The natives kept aloof, or if they drew near, marked by signs their impatience for his departure. But they had shown him samples of gold, which, if their gestures were rightly inter- Chap. II.} 1528. May. preted, came from the North. Disregarding, therefore, the most earnest advice of Cabeza de Vaca, he directed the ships to meet him at a harbor with which