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independent tribes, each usually occupying only one settlement. 
The most important of these appears to have been Ais, located close 
to what is now Indian River Inlet. The next in prominence, if not 
in power, were the Tekesta, at or near the present Miami, and between 
these were the Jeaga, or Jega, in Jupiter Inlet, and the Guacata and 
Santa Lucia Indians, probably identical, who lived about St. Lucie 
River. The province of Ais is said to have extended northward 
almost to Cape Canaveral, but the authority of its chief was probably 
not very great along the northern edge of this area, where we are 
told of a province called llumay. 
We will consider first the towns of Calusa. Two lists of Calusa 
towns have come to my notice; one in Fontaneda's Memoir, the other — 
possibly from him also, but containing many more names and some 
variants of the names in his Memoir — in the Lowery manuscripts. 
From the fact that Tampa is given b} T Fontaneda as a Calusa town, it 
has been quite generally assumed that the Calusa extended as far north 
as the bay of that name, but in the Lowery manuscripts I find very 
strong evidence that the original Tampa Bay was farther south 
than the inlet now so called, and was probably identical with 
what is now Charlotte Harbor. The principal Calusa town was 
farther south on San Carlos Bay. Fontaneda classifies the Calusa 
towns into three groups, those on the west coast of the peninsula, 
those about Lake Mayaimi, now Okeechobee, and those on the 
Florida Keys. The following list is as complete as I can furnish. 
In the list from the Lowery manuscripts the towns, or, as the 
document gives it, their caciques— since town and chief were called 
by the same name by the Spaniards — are given from north to south, 
and I indicate in each case the town above and below the one named, 
mentioning the one to the north first. In the case of towns from 
Fontaneda's list I give the group to which each belongs: 
Abir. Between Neguitun and Cutespa. 
Alcola tor Chosa). Mentioned in the narrative of an expedition into the Calusa 
country in 16S0, and said to have 300 people. 
Apojola Neora. This is given, in an account <>f an expedition into the Calusa country 
in 1680. The expedition was accompanied by Timucua interpreters and 
this name seems to contain the Spanish word black and the Timucua word 
for buzzard. It contained 20 people. 
Calaobe. Belongs to the seacoast division (see p. 29). 
Caragara. Between Namuguya and Ilenhenguepa. 
Casitoa, Casitua. Seacoast division. Between Muspa and Cotebo. 
Cayovea. Seacoast division. 
Cayucar. Between Tonco and Neguitun. 
Chipi. Between Tomcobe and Taguagemae (or Taguagemue). 
Comachica. Seacoast division. 
Cononoguay. Between Cutespa and Estegue. 
Cotebo. Between Casitua and Coyobia. 
Coyobia. Between Cotebo and Tequemapo. 
