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A Possible Relic Of De Soto

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
December
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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TheTallahassee(Fla.) F Lor idan says A few years ag, nbuut two miles east of Tallahassee, was found a ponderous spur, of unique and carióos workman sliip, the like of wkieb '-as not beei Been in modern times. The burr was one and a half incbes in diameter, uk lie bar proportiouatelv heavy. Oi either sido of the rowel daalel smali leniiant bells, tliat 'avú fortli a tinking sound in response to each step oí lie wearer - doubüess sonie stecl-clatl and bonneted wanior of the long ago. Xot naany days since, while parties vete plowing near the identical spot, a olid and shapeless mass was turned up which, upon close examination, provecí o be an iron stirrup of ancáent pattern as heavy and as massive as the spur poken of first, and ürmly irabedded in a thick coaling of elay and rust. When his was removed, the stirrup was 'ound to be in a remarkable good state of preservation. The sides represent two Ethiopian ügures standing upon the foot-rest, leaning forward facing each other, while they support with outstretched arnis wbat loruis the top of the stirrup or that part connected witk the leatber. So unlike are both these relies to anything known to the generations of this day and time, and, both being found so near the same place, it is not unreasonable to ascribe them to the same era and individua!. Nor is the supposition at all improb: - ble that one of the knightly folluwei s of De Soto, lured on through this then unknown región and wiiderness, like that dauntless son of Spain, by a ihiist for the yellow heaps of gleauiing gold that loomed up ahead of thein in vain visions and heated fancies, liere feil a victim to the tomahawk and scalping kjiife of the wronged and revengelul red ; and no doubt some one of the 'Talhihassee Tribe," of which aTlgei Tail" claimed to be a descendant, boasted, as he displayed at hits belt a ytt bloody scalp, that he had "killed a pal;face."

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