Notes on the Floridian Peninsula; its Literary History, Indian Tribes and Antiquities

118

Comptes Rendus, XV., p. 1047.

119

Repertorium ueber die – auf dem Gebiete der Geschichte erscheinenen Aufsätze, u. s. w. Berlin, 1852.

120

Bacalaos, the Spanish word for codfish.

121

See A. v. Humboldt’s Introduction to Dr. T. W. Ghillany’s Geschichte des Seefahrers Ritter Martin Behaim, s. 2-5, in which work these two maps are given.

122

Many of the names on this map are also on the land called Terra de Cuba, north-west of the island Isabella, Cuba proper, on the globe of Johann Schoner, Nuremburg, 1520. A copy of a portion of the globe is given by Ghillany in the work just mentioned. For an inspection of the original maps of Ptolemy of 1508 and 1513, I am indebted to the kindness of Peter Force, of Washington.

123

Otros conocieron ser tierra firme; y de este parecer fue siempre Anton de Alaminos, Piloto, que fue con Juan Ponce. Barcia, Introduccion al Ensayo Chronologico.

124

Herrera, Dec. I., Lib. I., cap. iii., p. 91.

125

For a description of this and other maps of America during the sixteenth century, see Dr. Ghillany, ubi suprà, p. 58, Anmerk. 17.

126

See G. R. Fairbanks, History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, pp. 113, 130, for descriptions of the two latter. A “Geog. Description of Florida” is said to have appeared at London, in 1665. Possibly it is the account of Captain Davis’ attack upon St. Augustine.

127

Descriptio Indiæ Occidentalis, Lib. IV., cap. xiii. (Antwerpt, 1633.)

128

Southern Review, Vol. VI., p. 410, seq.

129

Report of F. L. Dancy, State Engineer and Geologist, in the Message of the Governor of Florida, with Accompanying Documents, for 1855, App., p. 9.

130

A Description of the Province of Carolina, p. 2, London, 1727.

131

Trans. Hist. and Lit. Com. of the Am. Phil. Soc., Vol. I., p. 113.

132

Hist. of the American Indians, p. 358.

133

Gilii’ Saggio di Storia Americana, Tomo III., p. 375.

134

Rex qui in hisce Montibus habitabat, Ao. 1562, dicabatur Apalatcy; ideoque ipsi montes eodem nomine vocantur, is written on the map of the country in Dapper’s Neue und Unbekaute Welt (Amsterdam, 1673,) probably on the authority of Ribaut.

135

The plums mentioned by these writers were probably the fruit of the Prunus Chicasaw. This was not an indigenous tree, but was cultivated by the Southern tribes. During his travels, the botanist Bartram never found it wild in the forests, “but always in old deserted Indian plantations.” (Travels, p. 38.)

136

See Appendix III.

137

Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Illes Antilles de l’Amerique, Liv. II., pp. 331-353. Rotterdam, 1658.

138

History of the Caribby Islands, London, 1666.

139

Geographia Exactissima, oder Beschreibung des 4 Theil der ganzen Welt mit Geographischen und Historischen Relationen, Franckfort am Mayn, 1679. This is a German translation of D’Abbeville’s geographical essays. I have not been able to learn when the last part, which contains Bristock’s narrative, was published in French.

140

America. London, 1671.

141

De Nieuwe en Onbekeende Weereld. Amsterdam, 1671.

142

Die Unbekante Neue Welt. Amsterdam, 1673.