swanton] KAKLY HISTOR"! OF THE CREEK INDIANS 53 
River Dulce of Le Moyne <>n his map erroneously inserted between 
the Rivera Grande and Belle — and in all probability is identical 
with Savannah River. 
The only remaining tribal name mentioned by Laudonniere is 
Chiquola, 1 but the circumstances under which it was obtained render 
its ethnographical value very slight. Being familiar with some of 
the narratives of the Ayllon expedition in which Chicora is given con- 
siderable prominence, Laudonniere inquired of the Indians whom 
he met regarding it. He was entirely unacquainted with their 
language but understood that they were trying to tell him that Chi- 
quola was the greatest lord of all that country, that he surpassed 
themselves in height by a foot and a half, and that he lived to the 
north in a large palisaded town. Later he tells us that the fact of 
the existence of such a chief and his great power were confirmed by 
those who were left to form a settlement. If there is any truth hi 
this story and the Indians were not simply telling what they thought 
the explorers would like to hear, the great town was probably that of 
the Kasihta. 2 
In 1564 a Spanish vessel was sent from Habana to find the French 
and root them out, and the narrative of this expedition states 
that there were said to be 17 towns around the Bay of Santa Elena. A 
town called Usta is mentioned, evidently identical with Audusta, and 
another town, not elsewhere recorded, called Yanahume. 3 In the 
former was a Frenchman who had remained yi the country rather 
than take chances in the small vessel in which his companions had 
ventured forth. 
The same year Laudonniere again sailed for America, but this time 
the Frenchmen decided to settle upon St. Johns River, Florida, and 
they did not return to Port Royal. The year following their new 
settlement was destroyed by the Spaniards under Menendez, and 
French attempts to colonize the Carolinas and Florida came to an end. 
In a letter written shortly after his conquest, Menendez states that 
he had heard that the elder brother of Ribault with the survivors 
from the French garrison "had gone 25 leagues away, toward the 
north, to a very good port called Guale, because the Indians of that 
place were his friends, and that there were within 3 or 4 leagues 
40 villages of Indians belonging to two brothers, one of whom was- 
named Cansin and the other Guale." 4 In Cansin and Guale we of 
course recognize, in spite of changes and corruptions hi orthography, 
Couexis and Ouade. In the spring of 1566 Menendez sailed north- 
w ard himself and reached Guale, where he was informed by a French 
refugee that Guale and Orista were at war with each other and that 
1 Laudonniere, Uist. Not. Ul- lu Floride, pp. ..'9-31. Lowery, MSS. in Lib. Cone. 
; See p. 219. * Ruiuiaz, La Florida, U, p. 145. 
