...valorous, virtuous, and valiant captaine, Don Fernando de °'Jfay, IMS, 55 1 ' atGuacoya. Soto, Governour of Cuba, and Adelantado of Florida ; whom fortune advanced, as it useth to doe others, that hee might have the higher fal. He departed in such a place, and at such a time, as...

...elected for governor. The next day, being the 21st of May, 1542, departed out of this life, the valorous, virtuous, and valiant Captain, Don Fernando de Soto,...advanced, as it useth to do others, that he might have the higher fall. He departed in such a place, and at such a time, as in his sickness he had but little...