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but who may have been Muskhogean, occupied the coast in the year 
1699, and their villages were encountered by Dickenson and his ill- 
fated party as they moved northward to St. Augustine, during the 
late summer and autumn of that year. (Dickenson, (1).) The 
references to the native habitations which are found in the narrative 
of the shipwreck are all too brief, but they are of the greatest interest. 
On July 25, 1699, the party reached a native village which evidently 
stood on the north side of Jupiter Inlet, and this was described (p. 
17) as being composed of— 
“little wigwams made of small poles stuck in the ground, which they 
bent one to another, making an arch, and covering them with thatch 
of small Palmetto leaves. . . . Wewere directed to a wigwam, which 
afterwards we understood to be the Cassekey’s (cacique); it was about 
a man’s height to the top, and herein was the Cassekey’s wife and 
some old women, sitting on a cabin made with sticks, about a foot 
high, covered with a mat; and they made signs for us to sit down on 
the ground which we did.’ As previously mentioned the term 
‘‘cabin,”’ as used in this narrative, referred to a small space within the 
house which was probably partitioned off by mats. In this instance 
it was occupied by a raised platform and covered with a mat, serving 
as a sleeping place at night. Five days later, July 30, 1699, Dicken- 
son had advanced as far as the north side of Indian River Inlet, where 
they discovered an Indian settlement. The house of the chief was 
about forty feet in length and twenty-five feet in width, formed of a 
framework and covered on sides and top with palmetto leaves. 
“There was a range of cabins on one side and two ends; at the 
entering on one side of the house, a passage was made of benches on 
each side leading to the cabins; on these benches sat the chief Indians, 
and at the upper end of the cabin was the Cassekey seated. . ... The 
Indians were seated as aforesaid, the Cassekey at the upper end of 
them, and the range of cabins was filled with men, women and 
children, beholding us. . . . In one part of this house, where a fire 
was kept, was an Indian man, having a pot on the fire wherein he was _ 
making a drink of a shrub, which we understood afterwards by the 
Spanish is called Casseena. . . . The drink when made cool to sup, 
was in a shell first carried to the Cassekey”’ (p. 33). 
They next, arrived at the village of Jece, some 10 or more miles 
north of the inlet and about one-half mile from the shore, surrounded | 
by a swamp (pp. 45-46). Here, during the night of August 4, 1699, 
occurred a violent storm. The wind blew from the northeast and 
rain fell in torrents. ‘‘The king’s house was knee deep with water 
and like to continue rising; I removed with my wife, child, Robert 
Barrow, and Benjamin Allen to an Indian house that stood on a hill 
of oyster shells, and in this house we remained the whole day.” 
The wind blew steadily from the northeast and the waters flooded 
