for guides and for interpreters, as because they said by signs that there was much gold in _Florida_) the Governor and all the company received much contentment, and longed for the hour of their departure, thinking in himself that this was the richest country that unto that day had been discovered. Before our departure the Governor deprived _Nuno de Touar_ of the office of Captain-general, and gave it to _Porcallo de Figueroa_, an inhabitant of _Cuba_, which was a mean that the ship was well furnished with victuals; for he gave a great many loads of _Casabe_ bread and many hogs. The Governor took away this office from _Nuno de Touar_, because he had fallen in love with the daughter of the Earl of _Gomera_, _Donna Isabella's_ waiting-maid, who, though his office were taken from him (to return again to the Governor's favor), though she were with child by him, yet took her to his wife, and went with _Soto_ into _Florida_. The Governor left _Donna Isabella_ in _Havana_, and with her remained the wife of _Don Carlos_, and the wives of _Baltasar de Gallegos_, and of _Nuno de Touar_. And he left for his lieutenant a gentleman of _Havana_, called _John de Roias_, for the government of the island. On Sunday the 18th of May, in the year of our Lord 1539, the Adelantado or president departed from _Havana_ in _Cuba_ with his fleet, which were nine vessels, five great ships, two caravels, and two brigantines. They sailed seven days with a prosperous wind. The 25th day of May, the day _de Pasca de Spirito Santo_[D] (which we call Whitson Sunday), they saw the land of _Florida_, and because of the shoals, they came to an anchor a league from the shore. On Friday the 30th of May they landed in _Florida_, two leagues from a town of an Indian lord called _Ucita_. They set on land two hundred and thirteen horses, which they brought with them to unburden the ships, that they might draw the less water. He landed all his men, and only the seamen remained in the ships, which in eight days, going up with the tide every day a little, brought them up unto the town. As soon as the people were come on shore, he pitched his camp on the sea-side, hard upon the bay which went up unto the town. And presently the Captain-general, _Vasquez Porcallo_, with other seven horsemen foraged the country half a league round about, and found six Indians, which resisted him with their arrows, which are the weapons which they used to fight withal. The horsemen killed two of them, and the other four escaped; because the country is cumbersome with woods and bogs, where the horses stuck fast, and fell with their riders, because they were weak with traveling upon the sea. The same night following, the Governor with an hundred men in the brigantines lighted upon a town, which he found without people, because that as soon as the Christians had sight of land, they were descried, and saw along the coast many smokes, which the Indians had made to give advice the one to the other.