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the way found a stream of water "so extreme cold that he could not suffer his hand in it." — He left 

 the island before "January 1545," and the last date in his History of maritime discoveries is " 1550." 

 Returning to Portugal, he was kept in a hospital " seventeene yeeres until the hower of his death " 

 (Francis de Sousa). 



The honey-guide ( . . . ), a South African bird noted for indicating deposits of wild honey by 

 flying from tree to tree, described to Galvano 43 by a Portuguese who had visited Sofala. 



About this time (see G. de Tassy i. 385), the sect of the Sikhs founded, and their sacred book 

 called the " Adi Granth " written by Nanak Schah. 



" 1537 A. D." (Alst. p. 217), Ferdinand, brother of Charles V., made king of Hungary. 



" Jun. iv. non." (addit. art de verif.), Bull from pope Paulus III., prohibiting the enslavement of 

 American tribes ; hitherto practised by the colonists " sub praetextu quod fidei catholicae expertes 

 existant," under the pretence of not being Catholics. — The order was received by the viceroy of 

 Peru in 155 1 . 



" Early in 1538 A. D." (Markham edit. Ciez. p. v and 47), from Uraba on the Gulf of Darien 

 Pedro Vadillo crossing the mountains proceeded up the valley of the Cauca to its source at Popayan. 

 Cieza de Leon, after passing five years in America, now at the age of nineteen accompanying the 

 party. — He returned to the Cauca in the service of Jorge de Robledo, was present at the founding of 

 Antioquia in " N. Lat. y°," and commenced writing his journal higher up the river at Cartago. 



" In this year" (Galvan.), Marcos de Missa, a Franciscan monk, proceeding from Mexico North- 

 ward through Culuacan "came to the prouince of Sibola, where he found seuen cities" (pueblos) "of 

 which he related marvels : and the farther he went, the richer he found the countrie of gold, siluer, 

 precious stones, and sheepe '' — (the bighorn, Ovis). 



"Near the end of March" (Alst.), Protestant meeting at Brunswick. Christian III. of Den- 

 mark received into the Federation : and admission sought by the marquis of Brandenburg, and by 

 the duke of Prussia. 



"The same year" (Alst), origin of the Sect of Antinomians : and their doctrines opposed by 

 Luther. For the Protestant refugees from Belgium and France, a church set apart at Argentinensis, 

 under the charge of Calvin. — Who continued there some years. 



"The same year" (Kobell ii.), by volcanic agency near Naples, Monte Nuovo, a new mountain 

 "four hundred and forty feet" in height, raised up in the space of "seven days." 



"In this year" (Spreng.), Symphorianus Campegius of Lyons publishing his Campo elysio 

 Galliae. 



" Friday, May 30th, 1539" (W. B. Rye edit. De Sot. 7), Ferdinando de Soto landing with "two 

 hundred and thirteene horses " at the port of Spirito Santo on the West side of Florida. At the end 

 of " two leagues," on "Sunday, June 1st," he reached the native village of Ucita, the chiefs house 

 " neere the shore upon a very hie mount, made by hand for strength." A Spaniard named John 

 Ortiz, left behind by Narvaez, unexpectedly making his appearance, friendly communication was 

 opened with the natives. Gallegos " with fifty horsemen and thirty or forty footemen " was sent 

 " thirty leagues " Northward to the village of Paracossi, chief of the Florida tribes. De Soto arriv- 

 ing with most of his men, all now proceeded "towards the west," crossed a river where were "low 

 palme trees like those of Andaluzia" (Sabal Adansom), and finding at every village "some beetes " 

 (Chenopodium ?) which were eaten " sodden with water and salt," reached Cale, but the town was 

 deserted. Leaving "Aug. nth," after gathering " maiz," on a " seven daies journie " for Apalache, 

 where Narvaez built "barkes" and left the country, De Soto was opposed by the natives and only on 

 "Tuesday, Oct. 27th," reached Anaica Apalache; the sea being "ten leagues" distant. A young 

 man, taken prisoner, said he came from Yupaha, <t country "farre off toward the sunrising," gov- 

 erned by a woman and where gold was mined. — " Wednesday, March 3d," De Soto departed 

 Northward for Yupaha, "with maiz for sixfie leagues." "Wednesday, 21st," he reached Toalli, 

 and from this " towne " forward the houses instead of being " thatched with straw " were " covered 

 with reeds in manner of tiles," were "verie cleanly, some of them had walks daubed with clay;" 

 the men wore "deeres skins" "well corried," and " of the same leather they make shooes." On 

 the "4th of April," he "passed by a towne called Altamaca ; " and on the "10th" came to Ocute. 

 Leavintr on the " 12th," he passed through the town of a chief named Cofaqui, and came to the 

 province of a chief named Patofa, to " a fat country, beautifull, and very fruitfull ; " whereas the 

 country all the way from Spirito Santo " is a barren land, and the most of it groves of wild pine trees " 

 (Pinus iada, and palustris). Turning now Eastward, on the " 26th " he was within a " two daies 

 journie " of Cutifa-Chiqui (according to native tradition Silver Bluff on the East bank of Savannah 

 river, in Barnwell district) : after passing "through countries of divers languages," the people now 

 understood the Yupaha lad, and as he had asserted were governed by a woman : the " woods are 

 thin, and ful of walnut trees" (Carya sp.\ "and mulberrie trees" (.If ones rubra) ; and at the town 

 " a da^er and beades " were found, that had been left by Ayllon in the haven " two daies journie " 



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