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Collier, lifting her lorgnon. "Mrs. Collier has been reading my paper on the chateau country in France," said Barnes mendaciously. "Perfectly delightful," said Mrs. Collier, and at once changed the subject. De Soto's cocktails came in. Miss Cameron did not take one. O'Dowd proposed a toast. "To the rascals who went gunning for the other rascals.
However, this conduct was deemed courteous by the administration at Washington, and, feminine influence being always potent with Andrew Jackson, De Soto's sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life; and shortly after, being taken to a quiet little country prison, he made interest with the jailer and escaped.
Another interesting relic which the explorers are said to have seen, was a coat of mail shown to them by the Indians near the Red River, as once having belonged to a Spaniard. Though nearly one hundred and sixty years had gone by since Hernando de Soto's famous expedition, it is by no means improbable that this was a genuine relic of that enterprise.
Bowdoin sank back in his chair again. "Why, that was the captain. Mercedes was the mate's child." "No. The money was Soto's, and the child too. He told me he had only lately sent a detective here to try and trace the child." "The sheriff's officer, by Jove!" said Mr. Bowdoin. "But can you prove it? can you prove it?" he cried. "Mercedes had yellow hair, so had Soto. And he knew your name.
De Soto's great anxiety now was to get access to the ocean. But he could not learn that the Cacique had ever heard of such a body of water. He then sent Juan de Añasco with eight horsemen to follow down the banks of the river in search of the sea.
But his departure seemed to remove from them all restraints, and Spaniards and Peruvians alike were whelmed in a common ruin. No account has been transmitted to us of De Soto's return voyage. While he was in Peru, Don Pedro had died. His sick-bed was a scene of lingering agony, both of body and of mind.
It is probable that he communicated with the governor. De Soto's indignation was thoroughly roused. He summoned the culprit before him. Tobar, deeming his offense a very trivial one, without hesitation acknowledged it, thinking, perhaps, that he might receive some slight reprimand.
The Spaniards entered the village by these causeways unopposed, and found there a not inhospitable reception. The day after their arrival, seven of De Soto's body-guard, thoughtless and rollicking young men, set out, without authority from their superior officers, to seek amusement in the neighboring hamlets.
Of de Soto's century-and-a-quarter earlier discovery, nothing came, while the contention put forth for La Salle that he made an earlier visit than Joliet and Marquette is based "on the merest surmise." The Mississippi. The arm of Lake Michigan, now called Green Bay. The town of Prairie du Chien lies just north of the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers.
The malaria of the swamps attacked him, and he died within a few days. His body was wrapped in mantles weighted with sand, carried in a canoe, and secretly lowered in the midst of the great river he had discovered. His successor tried to conceal De Soto's death from the Indians. The Spaniards had called their leader the Child of the Sun, and now he had died like any other mortal.
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