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Cape Florida (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
. Bad weather would not allow the April 2. squadron to approach land: at length the aged soldier was able to go on shore, in the latitude of thirty degrees and eight minutes; some miles, therefore, to the April 8. north of St. Augustine. The territory was claimed for Spain. Ponce remained for many weeks to investigate the coast which he had discovered; though the currents of the gulf-stream, and the islands, between which the channel was yet unknown, threatened shipwreck. He doubled Cape Florida; he sailed among the group which he named Tortugas; and, despairing of entire success, he returned to Porto Rico, leaving a trusty follower to continue the research. The Indians had every where displayed determined hostility. Ponce de Leon remained an old man; but Spanish commerce acquired a new channel through the Gulf of Florida, and Spain a new province, which imagination could esteem immeasurably rich, since its interior was unknown. The government of Florida was the reward which
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ray the privilege of colonizing at his own cost the region which he had made known, from a point south of Tampico to the limit of Ponce de Leon, near the coast of Alabama. But Garay thought not of the Mississippi and its valley: he coveted access to the wealth of Mexico; and, in 1523, lost fortune and life ingloriously in a disputry, the same, perhaps, which has since been thought worthy of culture, and to admire the luxuriant growth of maize, which was springing from the fertile plains of Alabama. A southerly direction led the train to Tuscaloosa; nor Oct. 18. was it long before the wanderers reached a considerable town on the Alabama, above the junctionpare Belknap, in Am. Biog. i. 185—195; McCulloh, Researches, Appendix, III. 523—531; Nuttall, in his Travels in Arkansas, Appendix, 247—267; Pickett's History of Alabama; and T. Irving's Conquest of Florida. Such is the history of the first voyage of Europeans on the Mississippi; the honor of the discovery belongs, without a d<
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
e north. A company of seven, of whom the most distinguished was Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon, fitted out two slave ships from St. Domingo, in quest of laborers for their plantations and mines. From the Bahama Islands, they passed to the coast of South Carolina, which was called Chicora. The Combahee River received the name of the Jordan; the name of St. Helena, given to a cape, now belongs to the sound. The natives of this region had not yet learned to fear Europeans; and they fled at their approall English bark at length boarded their vessel, and, setting the most feeble on shore upon the coast of France, carried the rest to the queen of England. Thus fell the first attempt of France in French Florida, near the southern confines of South Carolina. The country was still a desert. Laudonmere, in Hakluyt, III. 371—384. Compare De Thou, a contemporary, l. XLIV.; Charlevoix, N. Fr. i. 24—35 Ensayo Cronologico, 42—45; L'Escarbot, Nouv. Fr. i. 41—62. After the treacherous peace b
Cuba (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 6
self, mortally wounded by an arrow, returned to Cuba to die. So ended the adventurer, who had coveteassed from port to port on the southern side of Cuba, where the experienced Miruelo was engaged as h but a holiday excursion of a bridal party. In Cuba, the precaution was used to send vessels to Flotuguese Relation, c. i. The infection spread in Cuba; and Vasco Porcallo, an aged and a wealthy man,ga, l. i. c. XII. Soto had been welcomed in Cuba by long and bril- 1539 May. liant festivals aned, and began to remember his establishments in Cuba. It had been a principal object with him to ob harbor of Pensacola; and a message was sent to Cuba, desiring that in the ensuing year supplies forng's Florida, II. 37. Meanwhile, ships from Cuba had arrived at Ochus, now Pensacola. Soto was hus perished Ferdinand de Soto, the governor of Cuba, the successful associate of Pizarro. His miseer dominions; but was left by her in abeyance. Cuba remained the centre of her West Indian possessi[1 more...]
St. Mark (Grenada) (search for this): chapter 6
cks, they abandoned all hope but of an escape from a region so remote and malign. Amidst increasing dangers they went onward through deep lagoons and the ruinous forest in search of the sea, till Aug. they came upon a bay, Cette baye est precisement ce que Garcilasso de la Vega appelle dans son histoire de la Floride le Port d'aute. Charlevoix: Journal Hist. Let. XXXIV., p. 473. I adhere to the constant tradition. which they called Baia de Caballos, and which now forms the harbor of Saint Mark's. No trace could be found of their ships; sustaining life, therefore, by the flesh of their horses and by six or seven hundred bushels of maize plundered from the Indians, they beat their stirrups, spurs, crossbows, and other implements of iron into saws axes and nails; and in sixteen days finished five boats each of twenty-two cubits, or more than thirty feet in length. In caulking their frail craft, films of the pal- Sept. metto served for oakum, and they payed the seams with pitch fr
Cuzco (Peru) (search for this): chapter 6
entures, that they might serve as a guide to the men who should go under the royal banners to conquer those lands; and the tales of the Columbus of the continent quickened the belief, that the country between the river Palmas and the Atlantic was the richest in the world. The assertion was received even by those who had seen Mexico and Peru. To no one was this faith more disastrous than to Ferdinand de Soto, of Xeres. He had been the favorite companion of Pizarro, and at the storming of Cusco had surpassed his companions in arms. He assisted in arresting the unhappy Atahualpa, and shared in the immense ransom with which the credulous Inca purchased the promise of freedom. Perceiving the angry jealousies of the conquerors of Peru, Soto had seasonably withdrawn, to display his opulence in Spain, and to solicit advancement. His reception was triumphant; success Chap. II.} 1537. of all kinds awaited him. The daughter of the distinguished nobleman, under whom he had first served
Chesapeake Bay (United States) (search for this): chapter 6
the sound of trumpets and drums, the Spaniards fell upon the unhappy men, who could offer no resistance. A few Catholics were spared; some mechanics were reserved as slaves; the rest were massacred, not as Frenchmen, but as Lutherans. The whole number of victims here and at the fort, is said, by the French, to have been about nine hundred; the Spanish accounts diminish the number of the slain, but not the atrocity of the deed. In 1566 Melendez attempted to take possession of 1566. Chesapeake Bay, then known as St. Mary's. A vessel was despatched from his squadron with thirty soldiers and two Dominicans, to settle that region and convert its inhabitants; but disheartened by contrary winds and the certain perils of the proposed colonization, they turned about before coming near the bay, and sailed for Seville, spreading the worst accounts of a country which none of them had seen. Melendez returned to Spain, impoverished, but triumphant. The French government heard of his Cha
Edisto (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
along the coast, the numerous streams were called after the rivers of France; and America, for a while, had its Seine, its Loire, and its Garonne. In searching for the Jordan or Combahee, they came upon Port Royal entrance, Laudonniere, in Hakluyt, III. 373. The description is sufficiently minute and accurate; removing all doubt Before the geography of the country was well known, there was room for the error of Charlevoix, Nouv. Fr. i. 25, who places the settlement at the mouth of the Edisto, an error which is followed by Chalmers, 513. It is no reproach to Charlevoix, that his geography of the coast of Florida is confused and inaccurate. Compare Johnson's Life of Greene, i. 477. which seemed the outlet of a magnificent river. The greatest ships of France Chap. II.} 1562. and the argosies of Venice could ride securely in the deep water of the harbor. The site for a first settlement is apt to be injudiciously selected; the local advantages which favor the growth of large ci
Port Royal (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
eived a French name; as the ships sailed along the coast, the numerous streams were called after the rivers of France; and America, for a while, had its Seine, its Loire, and its Garonne. In searching for the Jordan or Combahee, they came upon Port Royal entrance, Laudonniere, in Hakluyt, III. 373. The description is sufficiently minute and accurate; removing all doubt Before the geography of the country was well known, there was room for the error of Charlevoix, Nouv. Fr. i. 25, who placeas commissioned to execute colored drawings of the objects which might engage his curi- April 22 to June 22. osity A voyage of sixty days brought the fleet, by the way of the Canaries and the Antilles, to the shores of Florida. The harbor of Port Royal, rendered gloomy Chap. II.} 1564 by recollections of misery, was avoided; and after searching the coast, and discovering places which were so full of amenity, that melancholy itself could not but change its humor, as it gazed, the followers of
Montezuma, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
province of Yucatan and the Chap. II} 1517. Bay of Campeachy. He then turned his prow to the north; but, at a place where he had landed for supplies of water, his company was suddenly assailed, and he himself mortally wounded. In 1518, the pilot whom Fernandez had employed 1518. conducted another squadron to the same shores; and Grijalva, the commander of the fleet, explored the coast from Yucatan towards Panuco. The masses of gold which he brought back, the rumors of the empire of Montezuma, its magnificence and its extent, heedlessly confirmed by the costly presents of the unsuspecting natives, were sufficient to inflame the coldest imagination, and excited the enterprise of Cortes. The voyage did not reach beyond the bounds of Mexico. At that time Francisco de Garay, a companion of Columbus on his second voyage, and now famed for his opulence, was the governor of Jamaica. In the year 1519, after having heard of the richness and 1519. beauty of Yucatan, he at his own c
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