NO. l6 CALDERON LETTER WENHOLD II 



and at 24 leagues [away] is Port Saint George, now an English 

 settlement, distant 84 leagues from Saint Augustine. Fifteen leagues 

 to the west, inland, is the province of Joaqui, where is the great lake 

 in which, according to tradition, Fernando de Soto and his men saw 

 many pearl oysters. From this province to that of Apalache, along 

 the northern frontier, there dwells, in encampments, without fixed 

 dwellings, the numerous nation of the Chichimecos, heathen, so 

 savage and cruel that their only concern is to assault villages. Christian 

 and heathen, taking lives and sparing neither age, sex nor estate, 

 roasting and eating the victims. 



COAST OF THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER 



Traversing the coast along the southern frontier through the 

 Bahama canal, passing the harbors of Matanzas and Mosquitos, 30 

 leagues from the city of Saint Augustine is Cape Canaveral, whose 

 shoals extend 6 leagues into the sea ; and 8 leagues from it is the bar of 

 Ais. At 5 is Guaxa, or Ropa Tendida ; at 2, Jobe ; at 7, Agea ; at 

 4, Arroyo Seco from where one goes to Las Bocas and Cabeza de los 

 Martyres, at which latter point disembogues a large river that flows 

 into the large lagoon of Maymi where, according to tradition, there 

 is, on a little islet in it, the treasure of a galleon which was lost on that 

 coast. From this inlet one goes by sand banks and keys [inhabited by] 

 savage Indians to the inlet called Carlos. From there to the bay ol 

 Spiritu Santo the direction coastwise is from northwest to southeast. 

 Four leagues [beyond Carlos] is the bay of Tampa. At 6 from the 

 Beach of Pusale is the Pojoy river; at 12 is Tocopacas." It is 20 

 leagues to Majuro and 20 more to Guaza, 3 to the harbor of San 

 Martin and 20 to that of San Marcos in the province of Apalache. 

 From there one goes by an inlet of 18 leagues to Matacojo where, they 

 say, Fernando de Soto built ships to navigate it. At 3 leagues from 

 there the river Agna disembogues, and rounding the point of the cape 

 which some call Apalache and others Hibineza, one comes to the inlet 

 of Taxaquachile where the great river Apalachocoli empties. 



On all this coast, from the afore-mentioned bar of Mosquitos, called 

 Surruque, to the river Tocopacas, both on the islet which they call 

 Cayos" and on the mainland, live 13 tribes of savage heathen Carib 

 Indians, in camps, having no fixed abodes, living only on fish and roots 



""Is that of Tocopacas", is what the writer actually says. "That", in 

 Spanish, is here masculine, but so are " village " and " river ", and the reference 

 is therefore not very clear. 



" The word cayos is in parentheses ; why is not apparent. 



