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Others soon explored the entire coast of California to the limits of the present state of Oregon. HOW DE SOTO AND CORONADO CAME NEAR MEETING. De Soto and Coronado together pushed the Spanish frontier far northward to the center of North America. A story which was told by De Soto's men shows how close together the two great explorers were at one time.
Andrew Wilmore plunged boldly into the forbidden subject later on that evening, as the two men sat side by side at one of the wall tables in Soto's famous club restaurant. They had consumed an excellent dinner. An empty champagne bottle had just been removed, double liqueur brandies had taken its place. Francis, with an air of complete and even exuberant humanity, had lit a huge cigar.
Here disease attacked the men; scouts were sent out to seek a better place, but they found only trackless woods and rumors of Indian bands creeping stealthily up on all sides to destroy what remained of the little army of whites. Almost for the first time De Soto's resolute mind now gave way.
A hundred considerations had doubtless crowded upon her during the night, yet she by no means repented having showed the leech what she thought of the betrayer in purple and the demand which he made upon her. De Soto's attempt at persuasion had only increased her defiance.
The Indians who tried to shirk work or offered resistance were killed without mercy. De Soto's cruelties made the Indian of the South hate the white men, and left him the enemy of any who should come to those regions in after-years. More than once De Soto narrowly escaped destruction at the hands of the enraged savages.
It is estimated that De Soto's force in Anhayea, including the captives who were servants or slaves, amounted to about fifteen hundred persons. He had also over three hundred horses.
THE DISCOVERY OF NEW YORK HARBOR BY VERAZZANO. Verazzano's Own Account THE DEATH OF DE SOTO. By One of De Soto's Companions DRAKE'S VISIT TO CALIFORNIA. By One of Drake's Companions THE DEATH OF MARQUETTE. By Father Claude Dablon THE DISCOVERY OF NIAGARA FALLS. By Father Louis Hennepin
A century before, Ortiz, a member of De Soto's expedition, had been captured by the Indians and saved in precisely the same way, and many instances of the kind occurred in the years which followed.
The drunken uproar which that night reigned in the pirate ship was in horrid unison with the raging elements around her; contention and quarrelling followed the brutal ebriety of the pirates; each evil spirit sought the mastery of the others, and Soto's, which was the fiend of all, began to grasp and grapple for its proper place the head of such a diabolical community.
"Are there really men who possess such things?" "I hope you will discover that for yourself some day," he answered. "Tell me your plans? Where are you living?" "For the present with my father in Curzon Street." "With Sir Timothy Brast?" She assented. "You know him?" she asked indifferently. "Very slightly," Francis replied. "We talked together, some nights ago, at Soto's Restaurant.
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