:i08 JOURNAL OF GALLEGO. 



here, and found it to be 9i° soutli of the equinoctial. It runs 

 east and west. 



" On Good Friday of this same year we went from this island 

 to another a league distant. We found in it abundance of cocoa- 

 nuts ; and we placed a quantity on board the brigantine for our 

 sustenance. Whilst we were at this island, a canoe came off to us 

 with three Indians ; they left us to go from there to the large 

 island ; and they offered us hogs, but we did not want them. 



" On arriving at the large island, the 'maestre de campo ' landed 

 and came to a town which was on high-ground. Here they gave 

 him two hogs, which he brought off with him to the ship, having 

 met with no bad treatment ; and we returned to pass the night at 

 the islet (?). This day was Holy Saturday. On the foUewing day, 

 which was the Feast of the Resurrection, we skirted the south coast 

 of the island ; and from here we went to another island, which is a 

 league from it. On our arrival, there came off to us mor6 than 20 

 canoes of fighting-men, who planned taking us to their town and 

 capturing us, and displayed much delight amongst themselves, I 

 ordered the anchor to be weighed that we might get to a better 

 place, because we were almost touching the shoals. When the 

 Indians saw that we were about to shift our position, they got into 

 their canoes in a great hurry with their bows and arrows, and 

 clubs, and many stones ; and in a very fierce manner they began 

 to shoot their arrows and stones at us. Seeing their daring, we 

 replied with the muskets ; and many Indians were killed, and the 

 whole were repulsed; and they rallied and came on to the attack with 

 greater fury ; but this time they suffered even more, and for the 

 second time they were repulsed and routed. There were more than 

 700 Indians. We took three canoes ; but afterwards we abandoned 

 two and kept the other. Deserting their towns, they went ofi' with 

 many howls and cries to the higher land in the interior. Soon the 

 ' maestre de campo ' landed with 20 men : and he endeavoured to 

 bring off some provisions to the brigantine, and to restore friend- 

 ship with the natives ; but from their dread of the muskets they 

 would never approach ; and they kept much in advance of them 

 calling to each other by conch-shells and with drums. Seeing that 

 there was iio help for it, we set fire to a house, after having taken 

 possession of the island in the name of His Majesty, as in the case 

 of the other islands ; and we gave it the name of ' La Florida.' This 

 island is in- latitude Si}° and lies east and west with the island of 



