Soto, Hernando de, -- approximately 1500-1542

Based upon "La Florida del Inca" of Garilaso de la Vega, and the English translation of 1686 of the anonymous "ReLacam verdadeira".

As told by a Knight of Elvas and in Relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma, Factor of the expedition. Translated by Buckingham Smith together with an account of De Soto's Expedition. Based on the diary of Rodrigo Ranjel, his private secretary. Translated from Oviedo's Historia General y Natural de las Indias. Edited with an introduction by Edward Gaylord Bourne, professor of History in Yale University. Illustrated. Volume 1. The Bradford club -- Life of Soto -- Proem -- True relation of the vicissitudes that attended the governor Don Hernando de Soto and some nobles of Portugal in the discovery of the province of Florida / now just given by a fidalgo of Elvas. Index of the chapters contained in the Discovery of Florida (p. 1-210) -- Annotations / made by the translator to matters in the Relac¸am (p. [211]-228) -- Relation of the conquest of Florida / presented by Luys Hernandez de Biedma in the year 1544 to the King of Spain in council ; translated from the original document (p. [229]-261) -- Appendix. Translations [of letters, official documents and royal decrees] (p. [263]-312) -- Index (p. [313]-324).