Helper´s Impending Crisis Dissected (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Helper´s Impending Crisis Dissected Among other items of the most absorbing interest in this work is a correct account of the capture and burning of the Peruvian Inca, and the massacre of thousands of his subjects. We can declare most conscientiously that no American history ever published gives a true account of these transactions, and the other tyrannical deeds of Pizarro and his confederates. The narrative of these events in the "Life of De Soto" is taken principally from suppressed manuscripts in the Spanish libraries, which the kings of Spain would not allow to be published. The murder of the Inca is one of the most astounding and revolting deeds ever recorded in the history of the world. This great work also gives a complete and truthful account of De Soto´s discoveries and adventures on that part of the American continent now forming the States of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and the Indian Territory. Some of these veritable details are far more wonderful than the wildest inventions of the novelist. The futile but persevering search of the Spaniards after the imaginary fountain of youth, and a Gold Region supposed to exist in some part of North America, is graphically related. The horrifying cruelties of the Spaniards are faithfully detailed. The whole of De Soto´s route in North America is described as almost one continuous conflict with the natives. Several of his battles with the North American Indians, in sanguinary horror, surpass all similar events in the records of Indian warfare. His great battle fought at Mauvilla (the site of which is near Mobile, in the State of Alabama) occasioned a greater loss of human life than any other engagement which ever took place between the white race and the aboriginal tribes of America. The fearful sufferings of the Spaniards after this battle are described. All their baggage, clothes, camp equipments, plunder (including pearls and gold of great value), fell into the hands of the Indians. The subsequent adventures of De Soto are full of peril and hardship: many of his followers were frozen to death; many others were massacred by the Indians; a large number perished in a conflagration of the Spanish camp, and the survivors were left in the midst of a severe winter without clothes or shelter. In all these disasters, the indomitable resolution of De Soto excites the admiration of the reader. He sets all danger at defiance, overcomes every obstacle, and fights his way to the Mississippi. He builds boats, crosses that mighty stream in spite of the opposition of the natives, who assemble in great numbers along the banks of the river and harass the Spaniards with a continued attack. De Soto´s progress through the wilderness to the foot of the Ozark Mountains is next given. His terrible conflicts with the original Camanches are described. This tribe proves to be unconquerable. De Soto returns to the Mississippi. His grief, disappointment and remorse. He is attacked with a severe disease. His biographer suspects that he was poisoned. Proofs adduced. He dies. 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.
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