How Did Hernando De Soto

Have you ever wondered how the states that Lewis and Clark did not find, were found? Hernando de Soto found, and explored Florida. Hernando de Soto was part of a Spanish scouting party. He and his “brothers” as he would call them, looked for the sign of danger.They had found Florida, or what they called La Florida. The people were members of an expedition led by Hernando himself. Hernando and his men were attacking Indians left and right, and one hero called out to them in their language. This man spoke Spanish and worshipped god. The men halted their assault. He had told the men that he was an earlier explorer who was left behind. The leader of his expedition, who was named Panfilo de Narvaez, had angered the local native chief. The native chief was named Hirrihigua. Narvaez had cut off the chief’s nose. Narvaez ordered that the chief’s mother shall be killed. Juan Ortiz, the strange man, had been captured at fifteen. Eleven years later Hernando de Soto’s men came along.
“De Soto was born in the province of Extremadura in Spain.” (World Book) When Hernando became a teenager, he set sail to the New World. Once in the New World, he began his new life. He became an explorer that worked in the Panama rain forests. Hernando de Soto worked in expeditions to enslave the natives that were called Indians. Hernando did the same with looking for golf and riches, as any other