Larry Wilson
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52 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 14 Aug
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Nothing could exceed their sufferings.
Nowhere could they find the gold they came to seek.
The village of Apalache, where they hoped to gain a rich booty, offered nothing but a few mean wigwams.
The horses gave out, and the famished soldiers fed upon their flesh.
The men sickened, and the Indians unceasingly harassed their march.
At length, after two hundred eighty leagues of wandering, they found themselves on the northern shore of the Gulf of Mexico, and desperately put to sea in such crazy boats as their skill and means could construct.
Cold, disease, famine, thirst, and the fury of the wars
Navarez himself perished, and of his wretched followers no more than four escaped, reaching by land after years of vicissitude the Christian settlements of New Spain.
The interior of the vast country then comprehended under the name of Florida still remained unexplored.
The Spanish voyager as his caravel ploughed through the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest of some future conqueror.
Perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cusco with the temple of the sun encircled with a frieze of gold.
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