<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto" id="mwUg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hernando de Soto">Hernando de Soto</a> stops near present-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls,_Mississippi" id="mwUw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Walls, Mississippi">Walls, Mississippi</a>, and sees the Mississippi River<sup about="#mwt39" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_8#cite_note-5" id="mwVA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwVQ">[5]</span></a></sup> (then known by the Spanish as <i id="mwVg">Río de Espíritu Santo</i>, the name given to it by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_Álvarez_de_Pineda" id="mwVw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alonso Álvarez de Pineda">Alonso Álvarez de Pineda</a> in 1519).<sup about="#mwt43" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_8#cite_note-6" id="mwWA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwWQ">[6]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt36" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFDye1993">Dye, David H. (1993). "Reconstruction of the de Soto Route in Arkansas: The Mississippi Alluvial Plain". In Young, Gloria A.; Hoffman, Michael P. (eds.). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EIt0uRRwPPMC" id="mwBrw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBr0">The Expedition of Hernando de Soto West of the Mississippi, 1541-1543: Proceedings of the de Soto Symposia, 1988 and 1990</i></a>. Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press. p.<span id="mwBr4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>40. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBr8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBsA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781557282705" id="mwBsE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781557282705"><bdi id="mwBsI">9781557282705</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt36" class="Z3988" id="mwBsM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Reconstruction+of+the+de+Soto+Route+in+Arkansas%3A+The+Mississippi+Alluvial+Plain&amp;rft.btitle=The+Expedition+of+Hernando+de+Soto+West+of+the+Mississippi%2C+1541-1543%3A+Proceedings+of+the+de+Soto+Symposia%2C+1988+and+1990&amp;rft.place=Fayetteville%2C+Ark.&amp;rft.pages=40&amp;rft.pub=University+of+Arkansas+Press&amp;rft.date=1993&amp;rft.isbn=9781557282705&amp;rft.aulast=Dye&amp;rft.aufirst=David+H.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DEIt0uRRwPPMC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+8"></span></span>