Excerpt from De Soto and His Men in the Land of FloridaAs long as there have been in this world two men telling the same story, there have been two ways of telling that story, and if there are two readers, there will be just so many ways of believing it. It seemed hardly more necessary here, than in the sol dier stories of our own Civil War, for instance, to confute and refute, sift and weigh evidence, when the question is only one of mere human characteristics, exaggerations, and discrepancies, which are the ear marks, after all, of human experience, varying in detail, but agreeing in the main essentials.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.