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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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shame and blushinge of the fauorers who shouted for joy. A more formidable and more disastrous attempt than any of these to take possession of the country was made in 1528 by Pam-philo de Narvaez. He sailed from Spain in 1527 under a Narvaez. . . . . 1528. commission from the Emperor, Charles V., with five ships 1 That the Gomez who explored the coast of the United States in 1525, and the Gomez who deserted Magellan, are identical, is generally accepted as without question. But Piga-fetta, in his relation of the Magellan voyage, calls the Gomez of that fleet, not Estevanbut Emanuel. See Pigafetta, in Pinkertons Voyages and Travels, vol. xi. 2 On the Ribero Map, the legend, Tierra de Estevan Gomez, is written across that re-gion now occupied by the Middle and Northern Atlantic States of the Union. 152 SPANISH DISCOVERIES AND EXPLORATIONS. (Chap. VIL and about five hundred men ; but delays occurring in the West Indies,where he passed the following winter, he made a second start in March,
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1528, with four ships and abrigantine, carrying four hun-dred men and eighty horses. Two days before Easter he landed in or near Tampa Bay,^and prepared at once to ad-vance into the country. In a reconnaissance along the coast they came upon a little Indian ciavos and Esciavos. village, where they found some bodies in a sort of mummified condi-tion, the sacred remains, no doubt, of the ancestors or the chiefs of the tribe. The officer in command chose to assume this preservation of the dead as a kind of idolatry, and ordered them to be burned, and the outrage was a sufficient warning to the natives of the treatment they might expect from such invaders. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a Spaniard of noble birth, was the treasurer of the expedition and its voluntary historian. He protested earnestly against the mad project of Narvaez to leave the coast, cer-tain, he said, that were that done, he would never more find the ships, nor the ships him. Nevertheless he determined to follow his captain rather

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