bwawton] EAKLY. EISTORY OF THE CREEK IXhIAXS 293 
Ranjel says simply that the messengers "brought good news," 1 
and Garcilasso speaks as if they actually reached the province they 
were in search of. 2 On account of some slip in the memories of the 
Lit id's informants he applies the name Chisca to a town near the 
Mississippi which the other chroniclers call Quizquiz, or Quizqui. 3 
Biedma makes no mention either of the province or the expedition. 
It will be noticed that Elvas says nothing of any metal seen by the 
explorers. Garcilasso, on the other hand, states that they "reported 
that the mines were of a very highly colored copper". 4 The success 
of the expedition as reported by Garcilasso and Ranjel and this 
mention of copper mines accord ill with what Elvas says. Is it 
possible that some facts regarding the expedition were kept secret 
within official circles, but leaked out into the camp through the 
messengers? After the explorers had crossed the Mississippi Elvas 
tells us they "marched in quest of a province called Pacaha, which 
he had been informed was nigh Chisca," 5 and, after he had arrived 
at the former place, he sent out an expedition to see if they could 
turn hack toward the latter. 6 It is possible that they had learned of 
another band of Yuchi who are known to have been living near the 
Mussel Shoals about 1700 (pi. 3). 
The next we hear of this province is in the Pardo narratives. In 
November, 1566, as we have seen, Juan Pardo left the new port of 
Santa Elena and marched northward to the province of Juada, proba- 
bly the count ry of the Siouan Cheraw. There he built a fort, which be 
left in charge of a sergeant named Moyano (or Boyano). The follow- 
ing January (1507), after Pardo's return to Santa Elena, a letter 
reached him from Moyano informing him that his sergeant had been 
at war with a chief named "Chisca," that with 15 soldiers he had 
killed over 1,000 Indians and burned 50 huts. Later Moyano re- 
ceived a threatening letter from one of the mountain chiefs (un ca- 
cique de la sierra l, perhaps from this same Chisca — at any rate from 
one of his allies. Determined to be the first to attack, Moyano 
went out from the fort of San Juan with twenty soldiers, marched four days through the 
sierra, and reached the enemies one morning and found them so well fortified that it 
was a marvel, because they were surrounded with a very high wooden wall and having 
a small gate with its defences; and the sergeanl seeing that there was no way to enter 
bui by the gate, made a Bhelter by means of which they entered with great danger, 
because they wounded the sergeant in the mouth and nine other soldiers in different 
places, but none of them dangerously. When they finally gained the fort the Indians 
took refuge in the huts which they had inside, which were underground, from which 
they came out to skirmish with the Spaniards, and [the latter] killing many of the 
Indians, fastened the doors of the said huts and set fire to them and burned them all, 
so- that there were killed and burned L,500 Indians. 7 
1 Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, n, p. 1 10. * Ibid., p. .172. 
■ Garcilasso in Shipp, De Soto and Fla., pp. & Bourne, Narr. of E>e Soto, i, p. 117. 
« Ibid., p. 128. 
»Ibid., p. -Mietseq. i Ruidiaz, La Florida, n, pp. 177-480. 
