The Discovery and conquest of Terra Florida by Don Ferdinando de Soto
By: written by a gentleman of Elvas ; and translated out of Portuguese by Richard Hakluyt ; edited with notes and an introduction, and a translation of a narrative of the expedition by Luis Hernandez de Biedma, factor to the same, by William B. Rye.
Contributors: Knight of Elvas.; Hakluyt, Richard, 1552-1616.; Rye, William Brenchley, 1818-1901.
Series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society -- 9.
Publisher: Hakluyt Society
Published: 1851
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Soto, Hernando de, -- ca. 1500-1542; United States -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish; America -- Early accounts to 1600
Other titles: Relaçam verdadeira dos trabalhos q̃ ho governador dõ Fernãdo de Souto e certos fidalogos portugueses passarom no descobrimẽto da prouincia da Frolida.; The worthye and famovs history of the travailes, discouery, & conquest, of that great continent of Terra Florida.
Notes: "Reprinted from the edition of 1611."

Hukluyt had first published his translation of the anonymous "Relaçam verdadeira ..." under title "Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida ..."  London, 1609. The losses which the Virginia colony suffered during the following year, 1610, produced much discouragement. Hakluyt, as one of the chief promoters of this first English settlement in North America, with a view to tempting new adventurers and to encourage those who had already gone out as colonists, decided to issue a second edition of this translation. But in place of the ambiguous title of 1609, which from a casual glance might lead one to infer that the book treated of Virginia instead of Florida, Hakluyt made use of most accurate title "The worthye and famovs history of the travailes, discouery, & conquest, of that great continent of Terra Florida, being liuely paraleld, with that of our new inhabited Virginia.

As also the comodities of the said country, with diuers excellent and rich mynes ... which cannot but giue vs a great and exceeding hope of our Virginia, being so neere of one continent. Accomplished and effected, by ... Don Fernando de Soto ... London, Printed for Mathew Lownes, 1611." A reproduction of this t.-p. of 1611 is prefixed to the text in the above reprint.

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