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“Until the Land Was Understood” Spaniards Confront La Florida, 1500–1600 Get access

Paul E. Hoffman
in La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence
Published: 02 December 2014
...The chapter unpacks statements about Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón’s 1526 colonizing expedition as a guide to how the ecologies of the Southeast’s coasts and interior, and the patterns of Native American settlement based on them, shaped Spanish colonial activities in La Florida, to 1600. It shows...
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Of a shipwreck and the unfortunate events that happened to the survivors of the fleet that Licentiate Ayllón led to the northern part of Tierra Firme. Get access

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
in Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Published: 01 March 2011
...This chapter relates the misfortunes on land experienced by the members of Licentiate Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón's fleet. Those who survived decided to come to the Hispaniola islands. To that effect, they put the licentiate's body in a lighter or barge to bring it to his home in Santo Domingo...