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Ponce De Leon
Title: Ponce De Leon
Category: History
Details: Words: 508 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ponce De Leon
Ponce de Leon was a sailor and explorer for Spain. He had been given governorship of
Hispaniola where he soon discovered that on Puerto Rico gold was found. He soon conquered
the island and was given governorship of it. From the gold he became very wealthy. He soon
learned of an Indian tale of an island called Bimini. On the Island There were supposedly lots if
gold and pearls and a mystical fountain that could …showed first 75 words of 508 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 508 total…hundred colonist and all
kinds of domestic animals. They landed on the west coast of Florida near Charlotte Harbor,
where the Calusa had driven them off before. Before they could erect buildings, they were
attacked, and Ponce de Leon wounded with a poison arrow. The colonists got into their ships and
left- one ship was blown to the coast of Mexico; the other, with Ponce de Leon, reached Cuba
where he died of his wound.
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