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league to a league apart. There were other towns which had much maize, pumpkins, 
beans, and dried plums of the country, whence were brought together at Anhayca 
Apalache what appeared to be sufficient provision for the 'winter. 1 These ameixas 
[persimmons] arc better than those of Spain, and come from trees thai grow in the 
Gelds \\ ithout being planted. 
Below we read : 
The Governor ordered planks and Bpikes to be taken to the roast for building a 
piragua. Into which thirty men entered well armed from the bay, going to and coming 
from sea. waiting the arrival of tli< j brigantines, and Bometimes fighting with the natives, 
who went up and down theestuary in canoes. < >n Saturday, the twenty-ninth of No- 
vember, in a high wind, an Indian passed through the sentries undiscovered, and set 
fire to the town, two portions of which, in consequence, were instantly consumed. 
On Sunday, the twenty-eighth of December, Juan de Anasco arrived; and the 
Governor directed Francisco Maldonado, Captain of Infantry, to run the coast to the 
westward with fifty men, and look for an entrance; proposing to go himself in that 
direction by land on discoveries. The same day, eight men rode two leagues about 
the town in pursuit of Indians, who had become so bold that they would venture up 
within crossbow-shot of the camp to kill our people. Two were discovered engaged 
in picking beans, and might have escaped, but a woman being present, the wife of 
one of them, they stood to fight. Before they could be killed, three horses were 
w r ounded, one of which died in a few days. 2 
The balance of the narrative is practically the same as that of 
Ranjel. 
The following is from Bieclma: 
Across this stream [on the confines of Apalache] we made a bridge, by lashing many 
pines together, upon which we went over with much danger, as there were Indians on 
the opposite side who disputed our passage; when they found, however, that we had 
landed, they went to the nearest town, called Ivitachuco, and there remained until 
we came in sight, when as we appeared they set all the place on fire and took to flight. 
There are many towns in this Province of Apalache, and it is a land abundant in 
substance. They call all that other country we were travelling through, the Province 
of Yustaga. 
We went to another town, called Iniahico. 3 
In Garcilasso's Florida we have some additional information re- 
garding the Apalachee Indians: 
Alonso de ( 'armona, in his Peregrination, remarks in particular upon the fierceness 
of the Indians of the Province of Apalache, of whom he writes as follows, his words 
being exactly quoted: Those Indians of Apalache are very tall, very valiant and full 
of spirit; since, just as they showed themselves and fought with those who were with 
Pamphilo de Narvaez, and drove them out of the country in spite of themselves, they 
kept living in our faces every day and we had daily brushes with them; and as they 
failed to make any headway with us, because our Governor was very brave, energetic, 
and experienced in Indian warfare, they concluded to withdraw to the woods in small 
bands, and as the Spaniards were going out for wood and were cutting it in the forest 
the Indians would come up at the sound of the axe and would kill the Spaniards and 
i A mistake has probably been made here in the division of sentences, which must have read: "The 
Camp-master, whose duly ii is to divide and lodge the men, quartered them about the town. At the 
distance of half a league to a league apart there were other towns which had much maize," etc. 
> Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, I, pp. 4&-49. 
'Ibid., n, pp. 6-7. 
