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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation	506	0	Browse	Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	92	0	Browse	Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight)	40	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.	18	0	Browse	Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1860., [Electronic resource]	4	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.	4	0	Browse	Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.)	4	0	Browse	Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 6 (search)

rative by one of the companions of De Soto, first published in 1557. I.—how de Soto set sail. Captain Soto was the son of a squire of Xerez of Badajos. He went into the Spanish Indies when Peter Arias of Avila was governor of the West Indies. And there he was without any thing else of his own, save his sword and target. And, for his good qualities and valor, Peter Arias made him captain of a troop of horsemen; and, by his commandment, he went with Fernando Pizarro to the conquest of Peru, where (as many persons of credit reported, which were there present) . . . he passed all other captains and principal persons. For which cause, besides his part of the treasure of Atabalipa, he had a good share; whereby in time he gathered an hundred and fourscore ducats De Soto. together, with that which fell to his part, which he brought into Spain. . . . The emperor made him the governor of the Isle of Cuba, and adelantadoor president of Florida, with a title of marquis of certain par

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