De Soto, a Spanish voyager, was sent to conquer Florida, penetrated as far as the Mississippi; worn out with fatigue in quest of gold, died of fever, and was buried in the river (1496-1542).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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