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Burial of De Soto on the Mississippi
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Burial of De Soto on the Mississippi
Spanish soldiers lower the wrapped body of Hernando De Soto into the Mississippi River. A soldier holds a torch as a priest reads from the Bible. His men did this in the dead of night, and weighted his corpse down with sand, as they were trying to conceal his death by fever from the Guachoya people, whom among other native peoples he had been trying to convince he was the son of the Sun, to varying success. Date: 1542
Media ID 23089676
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1542 Body Conceal Corpse Dead Explorer Fever Hernando Holds Lower Mississippi Priest Reads Sand Soto Torch Weighted Wrapped
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