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A translation of a recently discovered manuscript journal of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida. By Luis Hernandez de Biedma.

Hernández de Biedma, Luys.

OTHER TITLES
Relacion del suceso de la jornada. English

CREATED/PUBLISHED
New York, 1846-53.

NOTES
Signed: Luis Hernandez de Biedma, (facteur de Sa Majesté)

An abridged translation of the then inedited Spanish ms. in the royal archives at Simancas, entitled "Relacion del suceso de la jornada que hizo Hernando de Soto, y de la calidad de la tierra por donde anduvo." The translation was apparently made from the French version in Ternaux-Compans, Voyages, relations et mémoire originaux ...Paris, 1841, v. 20.

SUBJECTS
Soto, Hernando de,--ca. 1500-1542.

MEDIUM
p. [95]-109. 23 cm.

CALL NUMBER
F366 .F87 vol. 2

PART OF
French, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1799-1877, ed. Historical collections of Louisiana v. 2, p. [95]-109

DIGITAL ID
rbfr 0008_0111 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbfr.0008_0111

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Issued as part of: Historical collections of Louisiana, embracing translations of many rare and valuable documents relating to the natural, civil and political history of that state)
(France in America: Selections from the LC Rare Books and Special Collections Division Description)

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