Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi by John S. C. Abbott

Author:John S. C. Abbott [Abbott, John S. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Reference, General
ISBN: 9781494702175
Google: ix_fngEACAAJ
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2013-12-16T03:27:50+00:00

De Soto had succeeded in capturing four of the most distinguished captains of Vitachuco. They had been ostensibly the friends of the Spaniard, had ate at his table and had apparently reciprocated all his kindly words and deeds. While thus deceiving him, they had coöperated with Vitachuco for his destruction. De Soto summoned them with their chief before him.

"He reproached them," says Mr. Irving "with the treacherous and murderous plot, devised against him and his soldiers, at a time when they were professing the kindest amity. Such treason, he observed, merited death; yet he wished to give the natives evidence of his clemency. He pardoned them, therefore, and restored them to his friendship; warning them, however, to beware how they again deceived him, or trespassed against the safety and welfare of the Spaniards, lest they should bring down upon themselves dire and terrible revenge."

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