The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume is an
eye-witness account by an anonymous Portuguese 'Gentleman of
Elvas', describing Ferdinand de Soto's four-year expedition to
Florida which landed in Tampa Bay in 1539 and marched hundreds of
miles north-west through present-day Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
De Soto died of fever in May 1542, and the survivors made their way
back to Mexico in 1543. The text of this translation, by Richard
Hakluyt himself, was published in 1611, and first appeared in this
annotated edition in 1851.
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