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Source is Eugenio Ruidiaz y Caravia's, "La Florida; su conquista y colonizacion por P. Menendez de Aviles. [Illustrated.]", published in Madrid, 1893.
Accompanying note: "He made the first recorded landing of white men in Florida on April 2, 1513. landing near Saint Augustine, he named the land pascua Florida because of its discovery in the time of the feast of flowers."
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