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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 2 (search)
ed God to cause it to rain very heavily, occasioning a great flood, by which the mouth of the harbor was opened, and the admiral enabled to draw out the ships to sea, in order to proceed to Spain; I, meanwhile, remaining on land as accountant of his Highness, with seventy men, and the greater part of the provisions of biscuit, wine, oil, and vinegar being left with me. Vii.—How Diego Mendez got food for Columbus. [also taken from the last will of Diego Mendez.] On the last day of April, in the year fifteen hundred and three, we left Veragua, with three ships, intending to make our passage homeward to Spain; but, as the ships were all pierced and eaten by the teredo, Ship-worm. we could not keep them above water. We abandoned one of them after we had proceeded thirty leagues: the two which remained were even in a worse condition than that; so that all the hands were not sufficient, with the use of pumps and kettles and pans, to draw off the water that came through the h
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 6 (search)
very bad lances; and some of them sought to come among the Portuguese. So those passed, and were counted and enrolled, which Soto liked and accepted of, and did accompany him into Florida, which were in all six hundred men. He had already bought seven ships, and had all necessary provision aboard them. He appointed captains, and delivered to every one his ship, and gave them in a roll what people every one should carry with them . . . . . In the year of our Lord 1538, in the month of April, the adelantado delivered his ships to the captains which were to go in them; and took for himself a new ship, and good of sail, and gave another to Andrew de Vasconcelos, in which the Portuguese went. He went over the bar of San Lucar on Sunday, being San Lazarus day, in the morning, of the month and year aforesaid, with great joy, commanding his trumpets to be sounded, and many shots of the ordnance to be discharged. Ii.—De Soto attacks the Indians, and finds a fellow-countryman. F
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 7 (search)
land called La Florida, drawing toward the north part, unto the head of Britons, i.e., Cape Breton. The whole coast was then thought a part of India. distant from the said head of La Florida nine hundred leagues, or thereabout, to the end we might certify you, and make true report of the temperature, fertility, ports, havens, rivers, and generally of all the commodities that be seen and found in that land, and also to learn what people were there dwelling. . . . Thursday, the last of April, at the break of the day, we discovered and clearly perceived a fair coast, stretching of a great length, covered with an infinite number of high and fair trees; we being not past seven or eight leagues from the shore. . . . . Where finding thirty-six fathom water [we] entered into a goodly and great river, Probably St. John's River, Florida. which, as we went, found to increase still in depth and largeness, boiling and roaring through the multitude of all kind of fish. This being en