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We are at a loss to suggest a satisfactory interpretation of the in- 

 scrij)tion appearing in the center of one of the faces of the cross \Yhich 

 still retains its ring for suspension. Can it be a rude tracing by the donor, 

 on the spur of the moment, of the name of the Indian to whom the 

 cross was presented? This inscription has an illiterate, unskillful, and 

 hasty look about it. It is not a of a kind with the rest of the engrav- 

 ing, and was certainly added after the completion of the object. Writ- 



FiG. B 2. 



ten from left to right, it runs as follows: lYNKicrDU. Eead from right 

 to left, we have udiciknyl In either case, by a slight exercise of the 

 imagination, we have a name with a traditional aboriginal ring about it. 

 Manifestly these letters were not within the double circle when the 

 cross passed from the shop of the silversmith, and we are persuaded 

 that both a clumsy tool and an unskilled hand were employed in their 

 superscription. 



As we well know, the Florida tribes were wholly unacquainted with 

 tlie horse prior to the advent of the European. To them, therefore, on 

 its first appearance, this quadruped must have proved an object of 



These silver ornaments, too, were doubt- 



special interest and wonder. 



