Hernando de Soto
Born: 1500, Province of Badajoz
Type: Spaniard
We have started our journy with our new leader Hernando de Soto, the man with many flaws. We have been sent away , and by we I mean a small group of horseman, to find riches such as gold and silver prohaps even slaves. We have been picked by how well can fight and defend ourselfs. Hernando has been equipped with 600 men (picked out by how well they can fight), 10 ships, servants, staff, 200 horses, and a pack of blood hounds. We all can tell that this is going to be one long journy, will we be able to make it? I geuss we will just see.
Journal Entry #2
Hernando can be a very bad man, today he tricked the Native Americans by saying that he was a god, the reason Hernando said this to them was becuase we needed food and supplies. He told them that …show more content…
There is not much I can do about it, I don’t think i’ll make it to the end. Hernando is getting very sick as well and lets just hope he will get better by tommorow. It’s getting late now so i’m going to bed in hopes that my hand will heal a little faster. It has been awhile since I have wrote, but there is some very bad news that has everyone shaken up. Hernando de Soto is dead! His feaver was increasing very rapidly, and nothing could fix him. We all knew he wouldnt make it and even he himself said that he was not going to live. He may have lied and cheated other people but over all he was a very great and noble caption. We have made plans to have him wrapped, weighed, and dropped into the Mississippi River. This will not stop us from doing what we where sent out here to do! We are going to coninue the expidition and finnish what we have started, after all its what Hernando would have wanted. We do’t have many men left, about 300 is the least amount i can say. Not alot of food and supplies but we are back on the