BUSHNELL] NATIVE VILLAGES AND VILLAGE SITES 89 
the lowlands and that night continued to rise until it reached the 
house, which soon ‘‘was afloat.’”’ The storm raged the following 
day and ‘‘the houses were almost blown to pieces and the Indians 
were often tying and mending them.” Interesting indeed is this 
reference to ‘‘a hill of oyster shells,’ which may have indicated the 
position of an even more ancient settlement, but it was not sur- 
mounted by the house of the chief of the village or by any structure 
resembling a ‘‘town house,” or a ‘‘temple,’”’ as would have been the 
custom among the majority of southern tribes. Here the chief’s 
dwelling stood on low ground, easily reached by the flood. 
Surviving this midsummer storm, the party resumed their journey 
northward and a few days later they reached a locality which appears 
to have been a short distance beyond Mosquito Inlet, probably on the 
mainland not far from the present village of Ormond, Volusia County. 
Going ashore (pp. 70-71), they found the ‘‘place was an old Indian 
field on a high bleak hill, where had been a large Indian house, but it 
was tumbled down.” This had probably been the site of a Timucuan 
town, and villages said to have been standing not far away may have 
been occupied by remnants of this people. (Pl. 15, a, 6.) 
When the Timucuan tribes became known to Europeans, through 
the discoveries of Ponce de Leon, who landed near the site of the 
present city of St. Augustine in the year 1513, they occupied many 
villages scattered across the northern part of the peninsula from the 
Atlantic to the Gulf. On the Atlantic coast they extended northward 
to Cumberland Island, on the present Georgia coast, and conse- 
quently claimed both banks of the St. Marys. Much information 
respecting the manners and customs of these people has been derived 
from the notes and drawings prepared by Le Moyne. (Le Moyne, 
(1).) Two of the latter are reproduced in plate 16, being copied from 
the engravings as presented in part 2 of De Bry’s great collection of 
voyages in 1591. Plate 16, a, appeared as plate 22 in Le Moyne’s 
narrative and there bore the legend: ‘‘There are in that region a 
great many islands, producing abundance of various kinds of fruits, 
which they gather twice a year and carry home in canoes and store 
up in roomy low granaries built of stone and earth and roofed thickly 
with palm branches and a kind of soft earth fit for the purpose.” 
Evidently the illustration shows one of the ‘‘granaries,” but how true 
either the drawing or legend may be remains a question not easily 
determined. The materials of which this structure was said to have 
been formed at once recall the rather vague reference in Oviedo to 
houses having ‘‘walls of lime and stone,” encountered within this 
region a generation earlier. The walls in both instances may have 
been formed of fragmentary pieces of coquina, easily secured at cer- 
tain places along the coast, and which might readily have been con- 
sidered by the early writers to have been artificially prepared. The 
