Wishing to avoid a collision with the Indians at that time, De Soto weighed anchor, and proceeded with his fleet two leagues further up the bay, where he disembarked his troops in boats. The place where he landed was on the eastern shore of Hillsborough Bay, above the mouth of the Little Manatee River, and near the line which separates Hillsborough and Manatee Counties. The Indians being anxious to get rid of De Soto and his followers, informed them that _El Dorado_, for which they were seeking, was further northward. De Soto sent his ships back to Havana, and commenced his toilsome march overland, which ended with his death and burial in the Mississippi River, on the 5th day of June, 1542, three years and one month after the date of his arrival in Tampa Bay. [Illustration: SUNNYSIDE COTTAGE. The Residence of SAMUEL C. UPHAM, Braidentown, Florida.] CHAPTER VI. "SUNNYSIDE"--ORANGE AND BANANA GROVES--LEMONS AND LIMES--COFFEE TREES AND PINE-APPLES--CALIFORNIA GRAPES--QUALITY OF THE LAND--MODE OF CULTIVATION--FLORIDA, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE--INCREASED PRODUCTION--BETTER AND CHEAPER TRANSPORTATION--INTERROGATORIES AND ANSWERS. Having given the reader a hasty outline of the Manatee region, I will add a brief _resume_ of my personal experience at "Sunnyside" during the past eighteen months. On my arrival in Braidentown, in the fall of 1879, my land was a "howling wilderness." At this time I have a young orange grove of six hundred trees, sixty lemon, fifteen lime, ten guava, half a dozen olive, two soft-shell almond, twenty coffee, four each Japan plum and persimmon, two pomegranate, two cocoa-nut and four Le Conte pear trees, all of which are growing luxuriantly. I also have one acre in bananas and sixty pine-apple plants, both of which will bear fruit next year. Around the fence inclosing my house lot, I have sixty California grape-vines of the choicest varieties, viz.: Flaming Tokay, White Muscat of Alexandria, Mission and Rose of Peru. The vines are looking well, and will bear fruit next year.