[muawiyah]

There is a similar story about the "Seven Cities of Cibola". No one has ever found them, but they were a nearly universal myth.

More realistically, when DeSoto made his epic journey from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest the Indians all along the way told him where the gold was.

When he finally got to Terre Haute (Pacaha's Town) and they pointed off toward Weedpatch Hill in Brown County (and to the Needmore/Trevlac area in Monroe County), his men avoided the high glacial hills to their North and went instead through West Baden Springs and came back with a wagon load of fools gold (iron pyrite and some other mineral crystals).

Later on gold miners found gold exactly where DeSoto had been told.

I've always found it remarkable that DeSoto's people didn't pay attention to this matter of going to exactly where the gold is - some of these fellows had worked with DeSoto's employee Pizarro and they certainly knew something about the matter.

For more information on this trip check out

http://www.floridahistory.com/start.html

[SunkenCiv]

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