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Excerpt from An Interesting History of Florida and the Famous Tarpon Springs, the New Health Resort of Florida Just before the Spaniards under Cortez began their great conquest of Mexico in 1520, the French sent out an expedition for the purpose of appropriating some of the newly discovered land of America to itself. Ponce de Leon with his expedition, discovered the land of the Floridas in 1512. He landed on the east coast near the St. Johns river where St. Augustine now stands, and named the country Florida, on account of the rich and fertile growths, which everywhere met his gaze. It was at this place where he afterwards founded the Huguenot colony, which spread and flourished in these parts for upwards of 40 years; and of whose persecution afterwards by the Spaniards, history furnishes another thrilling accouut of the religious terrors of the 16th century. In 1520, when Cortez opened the conquest, of Mexico, Luke Vasques de Ayllon in the same year, equipped two ships and sailed from Hispaniola for the contemptuous and shortsighted purpose of capturing and placing the innocent natives into bondage. Arriving on the east coast, he invited the Indians on board, and when secured, he set sail for St. Domingo and sold them into slavery. In 1527, Charles V., of Spain, commissioned Pamphilo de Narvaez to conquer Florida. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.