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II. I 170 CONQUEST OF FLORIDA. turned^ widiout having effected any thing, but giving glowing accounts of the evident fer- tility and populousness of the province. These favourable reports determined De Soto to cross the river with his troops, as soon as the brigantines should be despatched, es- tablish his head-quarters in the chief town of Quigualtanqui, and there spend the summer and winter that must intervene before the re- turn of his envoys. To his infinite vexation, however, a vio- lent h...ostility was manifested on the part of Quigualtanqui. That Chieftain, being of a haughty character and possessing great power, was extremely tenacious of his territorial sway. He was incensed at the inroad o£ the Spanish scouts, and sent messengers to De Soto, swear- ing by the sun and moon, to wage a war of extermination against him and his people, should any of them dare again to enter his do- minions.-*^ At an earlier period, a ^message of this kind would have been answered by De goto by an inroad into the Cacique's dominions ; but his spirits were gradually failing.
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