Signed: Luis Fernandez de Biedma, (facteur de Sa Majesté)
An abridged translation of the then inedited Spanish ms. in the royal archives at Simancas, entitled "Relacion del suceso de la jornada que hizo Hernando de Soto, y de la calidad de la tierra por donde anduvo." The translation was apparently made from the French version in Ternaux-Compans, Voyages, relations et mémoires originaux ... Paris, 1841, v. 20.