1Edward Gaylord Bourne, Narratives
of
the
Career
of
Hernando
de
Soto
in
the
Conquest
of
Florida,
as told by a Knight of Elvas and in a relation
by Luys Hernández de Biedma (2 vols.; New York, 1904). Hereafter cited
as Bourne, De
Soto.
The introduction to this article is based chiefly on
these narratives.
