The Survivors of the De Soto Expedition


 NOTES


 John R. Swanton, Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition
 Commission (Washington, DC, 1939). The second edition, printed in 1985,
 is followed here.

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 The four chroniclers of the de Soto expedition are: Rodrigo Rangel, who
 wrote a diary of the expedition included in Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo,
 Historia natural y moral de las Indias; Fidalgo de Elvas, Relaqdo
 Verdadeira; Luis Hernmndez de Biedma, Relaci6n del suceso de la jornada
 a la isla de la Florida; Garcilaso de la Vega, La Florida del Inca. Historia
 del adelantado Hernando de Soto, gobernador y capitdn general del reino
 de la Florida, y de otros her6icos caballeros espanioles e indios. Good
 English translations of Rangel, Hernandez de Biedma, and the Gentleman
 of Elvas are found in Edward Gaylord Bourne, Narratives of the Career of
 Hernando de Soto, 2 volumes (New York, 1904). A good translation of La
 Florida del Inca is Garcilaso de la Vega, The Florida of the Inca (Austin,
 Texas, 1951).

 The original documents published in the nineteenth century are found in
 Buckingham Smith, Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the
 Conquest of Florida (New York, 1866). The transcription of the passenger
 registry in Spain for the Florida expedition is found in Antonio de Solar y
 Toboada and Jose Rijula y Ochotorena, El Adelantado Hernando de Soto
 (Badajoz, 1929).

 Garcilaso de la Vega, The Florida of the Inca, (Austin, Texas, 1951), p. 22.

4
 Buckingham Smith, Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the
 Conquest of Florida, p. 12. This work is cited so often that I have used the
 author's last name followed by a dash and the page number where the
 citation is found. Therefore this citation is identified as Smith-12.

 The first transcription is found in Antonio de Solar y Toboada y Jose de
 Rujula y Ochotorena, El Adelantado Hernando de Soto (Badajoz, 1929).
 Since this source is mentioned often here it is abbreviated with the initials
 of the last names of the authors, SR, followed by a dash and the page
 number where the citation is found. Alonso Raya appears twice in this
 transcription, SR-291 and SR-304. The women listed are Ines de Herrera,
 SR-298, Isabel de Mejia and Leonor de Volafios, SR-307. The "color loro"


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