The Skeleton Of De Soto
The local historians of Baton Rouge, La., believe that the mortal remains of Fernando De Soto lie buried between two gigantio live oaks near the present site of Port Hndson. The books teil different tales abont ihe death and bnrial of the great discovcrer. Sorne say that he was wrapped in bis inantle and thrown into the Mississippi ; others that the remains were incased in a hollow log. In 1853 three hunters - Rigsby, Davis and Hurin - were encamped near what is now Port Hndson. While kindling a fire they fonnd a human skeleton in a hollow log that had been lying in a drift. The bones were those of a man six feet tall. In the log a heimet, a rnsty sword and a íarge bronze crcciflx were also found, and on one of the fingers of the skeleton's hand a large seal ring. The discoverers of this ghastly memento believe that the remains were those of De Soto, the discoverer of the Mississippi river. The burial place of the bones iswell known to the Rigsbys,
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