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does her name, which afterwards displaced all previous appellations. 
Ponce de Leon ranged the coasts seemingly for many miles, on both 
the eastern and western sides, and then returned to Porto Rico, 
where he had outfitted. In 1521 he undertook a second expedition, 
coasting the western side of the peninsula and making a landing, 
perhaps in Apalachee Bay, as suggested by Harrisse. 1 Here, however, 
he was defeated by the Indians and badly wounded. He returned 
to Cuba to be cured, but soon died. Meantime, in 1519, Francisco 
de Garay sent an expedition into the Gulf of Mexico, which traced 
the northern coast of the Gulf from Florida to the River Panuco. 
In 1524 Verrazano is supposed to have followed the coast of North 
America from Florida northward. All of these navigators simply 
touched upon the shores of the peninsula. We now come to expedi- 
tions which penetrated some distance into the interior. The first of 
these was led by the unfortunate Narvaez, who landed in Florida 
April 11, 1528, probably at or near Tampa Bay. From there the 
Spaniards marched inland, meeting very few Indians and apparently 
only one or two Indian villages. They crossed two rivers, which we 
may surmise to have been the Withlacoochee and Suwanee, and 
finally came to the country of the Apalachee. No tribal names are 
mentioned in the territory traversed before reaching these people; 
merely the name of a chief, Dulchanchellin, whose village seems to 
have been in that province which the De Soto narratives call Ocale. 2 
What happened to the Spaniards among the Apalachee has been 
related in giving the history of the Apalachee tribe. 3 
The expedition of De Soto reached Tampa Bay May 25, 1539. On 
Tuesday, July 15, it set out from the town of Ocita, or Ucita, which 
was evidently near the head of the bay, passed through the territory 
of Mococo, and then through a number of places which seem to have 
been under a chief named Urriparacogi. Afterwards the explorers 
crossed the Withlacoochee River and came into the province of Ocale, 
and from there, leaving the province of Acuera to one side, reached 
the important province of Potano on or near the Alachua plains. 
Then they passed northward through Potano, crossed another river, 
perhaps the Santa Fe, and came into still another important province 
known as Aguacalecuen, or Caliquen. It is uncertain whether the places 
entered by them, beyond the capital of this province, all belonged 
to it or not. At any rate the next great chief mentioned was Ucachile*, 
Uzachil, or Ossachile, a name which I have sought to identify with the 
later Osochi, and from his territory they traveled into the province of 
Apalachee northward of Ocilla River. 4 All of the people living in 
i Harrisse, Disc, of N. A., p. 152. 
» Bandelier, Jour, of Cabeza de Vaca, pp. 9-23; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., m, pp. 579-581; Doc. Ined., xrv, pp. 
269-271. 
8 See pp. 112-115. 
* Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, I, pp. 21-46; n, pp. 4-6, 51-71 
