Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour: out of the foure yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie ... of don Ferdinando de Soto ... (1609)
Knight of Elvas · At London : printed by Felix Kyngston for Matthew Lownes, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bishops head in Pauls Churchyard. · leaf 23
ed, and ferued of all the inhabitants of that Citie, andall his companie had their lodgings freely : thofe which de- fired to goe into the countri¢, were diuided by foure and foure,and fixe and fixe in the farmes or granges, according to theabilitieofthe owners of the farmes, and were furnifhed by… … and couered with tiles. Ie hath great Orchards and many trees in them,diffcring from thofe of Spaine: hft, yellow within,and of {mall tafte; and other trees and bignes like toa {mall Pineapple: itis a fruit very {weete in cafte : the fhel being taken away,the kernel is
Soto, Hernando de, approximately 1500-1542 · Florida -- History -- To 1565 · Imprint 1609
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