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believe we might have come all the way along the sound, hut t lie Spaniards were not 
willing to discover the place to us. 
\n hour before sun set we got to the town call'd St. Mary's. This was a frontier and 
garrison town; the inhabitants are Indians with some Spanish soldiers. We were con- 
ducted to the ware house, as the custom is, every town having one: we understood 
these houses were either tor their times of mirth and dancing, or to lodge and entertain 
Btrangers. The house was about 31 feet diameter, 1 built round, with 32 squares; in 
each square a cabin about s feet long, of good height, painted and well matted. The 
centre of the building is a quadrangle of 20 feet, being open at the top, against which 
the house is built. In this quadrangle is the place they dance, having a great fire in 
the middle. I n i ,ne of the squares is the gate way or passage. The women natives of 
these towns clothe themselves with the moss of trees, making gowns and petticoats 
thereof, which at a distance, or in the night, looks very neat. The Indian boys we 
saw were kept to school in the church, the friar being their schoolmaster. This was the 
largest town of all, and about a mile from it was another called St. Philip's. At St. 
Marys we were to stay till the 5th or 6th inst. Here we were to receive our 60 roves 
of corn and 10 of pease. While we staid we had one half of our corn beaten into meal 
by the Indians, the other we kept whole, not knowing what weather we should have. 
. . . We got of the Indians plenty of garlick and long pepper, to season our corn and 
pease, both of which are griping and windy, and we made wooden trays and spoons to 
eat with. We g< >t rushes and made a sort of plaited rope thereof; the use we intended 
it for, was to be serviceable to help us in building huts or tents with, at such times as 
we should meet with hard weather . . . 
We departed this place [Oct. 6] and put into the town of St. Philip's, where the 
Spanish Captain invited us on shore to drink Casseena, which we did: the Spaniards, 
having left something behind, we staid here about an hour, and then set forward. 
About 2 or 3 leagues from hence we came in sight of an Indian town called Sap- 
pataw." 2 
"Sappataw" is probably a misprint for Sappalaw, i. e., Sapelo. 
Some, and probably all, of these missions were on the sites of former 
missions occupied by Timucua, but most of the latter Indians must 
have died out or been removed. At least, Dickenson says in two places 
that the Indians living there were "related" to the Yamasee then in 
Carolina. 3 
If Barcia may be trusted, a considerable number of Guale Indians 
fled to South Carolina at the time when the remainder of the tribe 
was removed to Florida. In 1702 a second outbreak occurred, re- 
sulting, apparently, in the reunion of all of the Guale natives on 
Savannah River, in the edge of the English colony and under the 
lead of the Yamasee. These two rebellions are indicated in the legend 
on an early Spanish map which states that the Spaniards occupied 
San Felipe, Guale, and Sapelo until 1686, when they withdrew to 
St. Simons, and that in 1702 St. Simons was also abandoned. It 
is clear, however, from Dickenson's narrative that the Georgia coast 
had been practically given up in his time, so that the "withdrawal" 
1 This figure is too small, perhaps due to a misprint; 32 squares 8 feet long would mean a circumference of 
256 feet and a diameter of 70-80 feet. The figure 3 in 31 is probably a misprint for 8 as suggested by Bushnell 
(see below). 
2 Dickenson, Narrative, pp. 90-94. See I). I. Bushnell, Jr., in Bull. 69, Bur. Amer. Ethn., pp. 84-85, 
who gives diagrammatic plans of the town houses. 
• Dickenson, Narrative, pp. 94, 96. 
