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noon. And as they would not return the Christians, and for that reason neither 
would we give up the Indians, they began to throw stones at us with slings, and darts, 
threatening to shoot arrows, although we did not see more than three or four bows. 
While thus engaged the wind freshened and they turned about and left us. 1 
This contains many interesting points. The Bay of Horses must 
have been somewhere near the mouth of Apalachicola River, and 
the place where they met the five Indian canoes hi what the Span- 
iards knew later as the province of Sabacola, though the Indians 
need not have been of that tribe, as we know from the account of 
Lamhatty that there were several other peoples in the neighborhood. 
The poor fisher folk whom they encountered were of the same prov- 
ince. The inlet in which they found the first Indian settlement 
must have been either East Pass or the entrance to Pensacola Bay, 
and the second entrance where Doroteo Teodoro and the negro went 
after water would be either Pensacola entrance or the opening into 
Mobile Bay. That these points were not west of Mobile Bay at all 
events is shown by one circumstance. In his narrative of the De 
Soto expedition Ranjel says: 
In this village, Piachi, it was learned that they had killed Don Teodoro and a black, 
who came from the ships of Pamphilo de Narvaez. 2 
Now, from a study of the narratives, we feel sure that Piachi was 
near the upper course of the Alabama River or between it and the 
Tombigbee. It thus appears that the Greek and the negro were 
carried, or traveled, inland, but it is not likely that they deviated 
much from the direct line inland, not more than the ascent of the 
Alabama or Tombigbee would make necessary. 
We need not suppose that the place where these Indians were met 
was Pensacola Bay, for there is reason to believe that at least the lower 
portion of Mobile Bay, perhaps the upper j3ortion also, was in times 
shortly before the opening of certain history occupied by tribes 
different from those found in possession by the French. It will be 
remembered that when Iberville settled at Biloxi and began to 
explore the coast eastward he touched at an island which he named 
Massacre Island, "because we found there, at the southwest end, a 
place where more than 60 men or women had been killed. Having 
found the heads and the remainder of the bones with much of their 
household articles, it did not appear that it was more than three or 
four years ago, nothing being yet rotted." 3 The journal of the 
second ship, Le Marin, confirms the statement, and adds: 
The savages who are along this coast are wanderers (vagabonds); when they are 
satiated with meat they come to the sea to eat fish, where there is an abundance of it. 4 
1 Bandelier, The .Tourney of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, pp. 41-49. 
2 Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, n, p. 123. 
> Iberville in Margry, IV, p. 147. 
* Margry, Dec., IV, p 232. 
