swanton] EARL'S HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 55 
them in their houses as relics." 1 The island of Guale, as already 
stated, was St. Catherines [sland. h is described in the narrative 
which we have just quoted as "about l or 5 leagues in diameter." 
[n-Augusl Menendez again visited Fori San Felipe and Guale, but his 
stay was short. Finding the garrison at the former place in serious 
straits for food, ho directed Juan Pardo to take 150 soldiers inland 
and quarter them at intervals upon the natives. While there are 
several accounts of this and subsequent expeditions undertaken by 
Pardo into the interior, the only one that concerns us here is a Rela- 
tion by Juan de la Vandera, hi command of the post at San Felipe, 
which sets forth "the places and what sort of land is to be found at 
each place among the provinces of Florida, through which Captain 
Juan Pardo, at the command of Pero Menendez de Aviles, entered 
to discover a road to New Spain, from the point of Santa Elena of the 
said provinces, during; the years 1566 and 1567." 2 The first part of 
this is of considerable importance for our study of the Cusabo tribe. 
It runs as follows : 
He started from Santa Elena with his company in obedience to orders received 
and on that day they went to sleep at a place called Uscamacu, which is an island 
surrounded by rivers. Its soil is sandy and makes very good clay for pottery, tiles, 
and other necessary things of the kind; there is good ground here for planting maize 
and grapevines, of which there is an abundance. 
From Uscamacu he went straight to another place called Ahoya, where they stopped 
and spent the night. This Ahoya is an island; some parts of it are surrounded by 
rivers, others look like mainland. It is good or at least reasonably good soil where 
maize grows and also big vine stocks with runners. 
From Ahoya he went to Ahoyabe, a small village, subject to Ahoya and in about 
the same kind of country. 
From Ahoyabe he went to another place, which is called Cozao, which belongs to a 
rather great cacique and has a lot of good land like the others, and many strips of 
stony ground, and where maize, wheat, oats, grapevines, all kinds of fruit and vege- 
tal >les, can be grown, because it has rivers and brooks of sweet water and reason- 
ably good soil for all. 
From Cozao he went to another small place which belongs to a chieftain (cacique) 
<>f the same C ozao; the land of this place is good, but there is little of it. 
Prom here he went to Enfrenado, 3 which is a miserable place, although it has many 
corners of rich soil like the others. 
From Enfrenado he went to Guiomaez from where to the cape of Santa Elena there 
are forty leagues. The road by which he went is somewhat difficult, but the land or 
soil is good and everything that is grown in * !ozao can be cultivated here and even more 
and better; there are great swamps, which are deep, caused by the great tlatness of 
the country. 4 
Uscamacu, where Pardo spent the first night, is certainly identical 
witJi the Maccou of the French, and would thus be somewhere to 
the southwest of Broad River. Pardo and his company were prob- 
ably set across to the neighborhood of this place in boats from Fort 
1 Bareia, La Florida, pp. 104-110, 
2 Kuidiaz, La Florida, n, pp. 451^86. 
3 This word would moan "bridled" in Spanish. It may be a native term but does not look like one. 
« Translation by Mrs. F. Ilandelier. 
