193
Desde los Martires al Cañaveral, Herrera, Dec. IV., Lib., IV., cap. VII.
194
Barcia (En. Cron. p. 118) says Ais commences twenty leagues up the St. Johns river; but distances given by the Spanish historians were often mere guesses, quite untrustworthy.
195
Basanier, Hist. Notable, pp. 133-4.
196
Vignoles, Obs. on the Floridas, pp. 74-5.
197
Biedma, Relation, p. 53; the Port. Gent. in Hackluyt, V., p. 492; La Vega, Lib. II., cap. x., p. 38.
198
Irving’s Conquest of Fla., p. 84, note.
199
Barcia, Año 1567; Fontanedo, pp. 20, 35.
200
Basanier, Hist. Notable, pp. 190-1, 108-9, 140 sq.
201
Jusqu’à Mayajuaca, dans la contrée de Ais, vers le lieu planté de roseaux. Fontanedo, Memoire, p. 35. Cañaveral is a Spanish word signifying the same as the expression I have italicised.
202
Basanier, Hist. Not. p. 90.
203
Ibid.
204
Basanier, Hist. Not. p. 8.
205
Hackluyt, Vol. V., p. 492, Fontanedo, p. 15.
206
Les Floridiens ne sement, ne plantent, ne prennent rien ni à la chasse, ni à la pêche, qui ne soit à la disposition de leurs chefs, qui distribuent, et donnent, comme il leur plait, etc. François Coreal, Voiages, Tome I., p. 44. The chiefs on the Bahamas possessed similar absolute power. (Peter Martyr, De Novo Orbe, Dec. VII., cap. I., p. 467.)
207
Basanier, Hist. Not., p. 132.
208
Basanier, pp. 9, 141.
209
Fontanedo, pp. 10, 11.
210
Basanier, Hist. Not. p. 7.
211
Travels, p. 456.
212
E. G. Squier, Aborig. Mon. of N. Y., App. pp. 135-7; Serpent Symbol, pp. 90, 94, 95.
213
Adair, Hist. N. Am. Inds., p. 205.
214
They came to meet Narvaez playing on such flutes, “tañendo unas Flautas de Caña,” Cabeza de Vaca, Naufragios, cap. V.
215
Bernard Romans, p. 62.
216
Francisco Ximenez, Origen de los Indios de Guatemala, p. 179.
217
De Morgues, Brevis Historia, Tab. XXI.