Identifier: spanishborderlan01bolt (find matches)
Title: The Spanish borderlands; a chronicle of old Florida and the Southwest
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Bolton, Herbert Eugene, 1870-1953
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Publisher: New Haven, Yale university press (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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king for the northern strait, andsailed the American coast between Nova Scotia andFlorida. Thus, by the year 1525, Spanish naviga-tors had explored the entire shore line from CapeBreton to Cape Horn. At length, in July, 1526, Ayllon sailed fromEspanola with six vessels carrying five hundredmen and women from the islands, some blackslaves, eighty-nine horses, and other equipmentfor the colony. It was a force larger than thatwith which Cortes had invaded Mexico. Therewere also three Dominican friars; for, wrote theKing, *Our principal intent in the discovery ofnew lands is that the inhabitants and nativesthereof, who are without the light or knowledgeof the faith, may be brought to understand thetruths of our Holy Catholic Faith, that theymay come to a knowledge thereof and be-come Christians and be saved, and this is thechief motive that you are to bear and hold inthis affair.^ Lowery, Spanish Settlements, p. 162. From Sheas transla-tion in The Catholic Church in Colonial Days, p. 105.
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PONCE DE LEON, AYLLON, NARVAEZ 17 Ayllon anchored his ships at the mouth of a river,probably the Cape Fear, which, with romantic op-timism, he named the Jordan. In making port helost one of his ships with its cargo, and this led tothe construction on the spot of an open boat withone mast, to be propelled by both oars and sail.Here we have the first shipbuilding of record in theUnited States. From this place exploring partieswent out by sea and others pushed a short way in-land. A misfortune now befell Ayllon. His inter-preter, the romancer, Francisco Chicorana, seizedthe opportunity so long waited for and deserted tohis people. Ayllon was thus unable to talk to theChicorans and convince them of his friendly intent.This region, however, about a dangerous harbor,looked uninviting, and no more was needed thanthe news of a pleasanter land, brought by returningexplorers, to start Ayllon and his colonists south-ward. Down the coast they all went to the mouthof the Pedee River — the Gualda

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