Juan Ponce de Leon
Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish conquistador. He is known as the first European known to have visited Florida.On March 27, 1513 de Leon sighted North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island. Later, on April 2, he landed somewhere on the east coast of the newly discovered land and claims it for Spain.
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It lingers now in patches
the landscapes of Japanese painters. Under these shreds of the elfish vapor
also called Shinkiro, which signifies Mirage,-- the Vision of the
pictures and poems and dreams...
BUTTERFLIES
I
Would that I could hope for the luck of that Chinese scholar known to
celestial sisters, who every ten days came to visit him and to tell him
butterflies -- ghostly stories; and I want to know them. But never shall I
that I manage, with exceeding difficulty, to translate, contains so.
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