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centered about Santa Fe Lake, but extended eastward across the 
St. Johns. The Potano were apparently on the Alachua plains, but 
sometimes Potano province is made to reach eastward to the At- 
lantic ami to include the "Fresh Wat er" province. Northwest of the 
Potano, and bordering on the Apalachee country, were the provinces 
of Onatheaqua and Hostaqua (or Yustaga). 
In the Spanish period our information becomes more detailed, 
owing largely to tin 1 labors of the Franciscan missionaries. Utina, 
Potano, and Hostaqua or Yustaga, are still recognized as important 
provinces, but Onatheaqua lias disappeared, and it is difficult to tell 
just what province corresponds to the old overlordship of Saturiwa. 
Yustaga is mentioned in one letter as though it were independent of 
and coordinate with Tiniucua. Tacatacuru, or Cumberland Island, is 
certainly independent. The mission field to the south is divided be- 
tween San .hi an del Puerto at the mouth of St. Johns River and St. 
Augustine. However, according to one account, Dona Maria, chief- 
tainess of Nombre de Dios de Florida, close to the latter place, was 
ruler over San Juan del Puerto, so that the territory governed by 
her may have been the old domain of Saturiwa. Inland from Taca- 
tacuru, known to the Spaniards as San Pedro, were two independent 
Timucua provinces called Yui (Ibi, Iuy) and Icafi or Icafui. There 
is some confusion about this last, because the missionaries seem to 
speak of it as identical with Cascangue or Cascange, while this latter 
is often referred to as a Guale tribe, and it took part in the uprising 
of 1597. Probably we have to deal with two peoples, one Timucua, 
the other Guale, living close together. 
South of St. Augustine was a group of towns classed together in 
what the Spaniards called the Fresh Water district, which seems to 
have been placed by some in the Potano province. It was long and 
narrow; Maiaca, the farthest town, was 8 leagues from Tocoy, the 
nearest. In the minds of some there was a doubt as to whether this 
last belonged properly to the province or not. Toward Cape Cana- 
veral was a tribe called Surruque, Curruque, or by some similar name. 
It is probably the Serrope mentioned by Laudonniere, although he 
places it on a large lake inland. By the large lake we must under- 
stand the lagoons back of Canaveral. Surruque may be classed pro- 
visionally as Tiniucua, though there is no certainty. Tocobaga was 
a province between Tampa Bay and Withlacoochee River, Ocale a 
province north of the Withlacoochee, and Acuera inland to the east 
of the latter. In De Soto's time there seems to have been a town or 
province of considerable importance called Aguacaleyquen between 
the Santa Fe and the upper Suwanee. 
Below r is a practically complete list of Florida missions and Timucua 
provinces, tribes, towns, and chiefs, so far as they have been revealed 
to us by the early writers 
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