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stance, and, after the lapse of a few generations, the legend 

 becomes so distorted that its real application is lost. They 

 possessed no tradition whatever of the expedition of De 

 Soto to the Mississippi; and yet it was attended with just 

 such circumstances — horses, fire-arms, etc.- -as would seem 

 to fix itself upon the minds of the savages. 



