Juan
Ponce De Leon and the Fountain of Youth
Part
1: The Early Years
One
of the sailors who sailed with Christopher Columbus on his
second voyage to the New World was a man named Juan Ponce De
Leon. This voyage would change his life.
He
decided to stay in Hispaniola when Columbus returned. Ponce
became very popular and was named governor of neary Puerto
Rico then called (Boriquien) in 1508.
While
there, he heard many stories of a magical water source.
People called it the "Fountain of Youth" and said that
drinking its water kept you young. Ponce decided that he
must find this water source.
 For
the next few years, he tried to find out where this
"Fountain of Youth" was. He finally believed he knew where
it was, and he asked permission from Spain's King Charles V
to go in search of it. The king agreed, as long as Ponce
agreed to pay for the ships and crew.
The
young explorer did so readily, and they were off. It was
March 1513. They sailed for Bimini.
They
sailed for days but didn't see the island. On March 27, he
came within sight of the Florida coast. On April 2, he
landed at what he named St. Augustine. This was the first
Spanish settlement on the mainland of North America.
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