... Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the by John S C Abbott The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi, by John S C Abbott This eBook is for the use of ... made available by The Internet Archive) FERDINAND DE SOTO, THE DISCOVERER OF THE MISSISSIPPI BY JOHN S C ABBOTT NEW YORK: DODD & MEAD, No 762 BROADWAY 1873 Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of ... hardihood and variety of incident, that of the renowned Hernando de Soto, and his band of cavaliers It was poetry put in action It was the knight-errantry of the old world carried into the depths of the...