In 1528 a one-eyed Spanish conquistador named Panfilo de Narvaez landed in what we now know as Tampa, Florida, in search of gold. He was the first European to land there. Narvaez was, by all historical accounts, unlucky as hell but neither was he an especially clever explorer. Most of his men hated him as he was known to be an inhumanly cruel man, and those that didn’t despise him thought him to be a joke and imparted practically no faith in him.
All his explorations ended poorly, including this one, his final one, which ended in him never finding any gold and, faced with relentless hostility by natives, hightailing it out of the area in order to survive.