swan-ton] EARLY HISTORY OF Till'. (KEEK INDIANS 343 
that Don Luis, chief of the mouths of Miguel Mora, and the chief of. 
Guega [Jeaga] had been at war, and that the governor had made peace 
between them. 5 In 1609 the chief of Ais visited St. Augustine and 
several chiefs living on the southeast coast were baptized in that 
city. 1 
In 1612 an expedition was sent to the southwest coast of Florida 
to punish the chiefs of Pooy and Tocopaca (Tocobaga) because they 
had attacked Christian Indians. This expedition also pushed on 
farther south until it came to the town of Calos, from which more 
than 60 canoes came out to meet it. The chief of Calos is said to 
have had more than 70 towns under him, not counting the very great 
number which paid him tribute because they feared him. 1 The 
same year Indians came from beyond Calos asking for missionaries. 1 
A missionary letter of 1618 states, however, that the Indians of 
Jeaga and Santa Lucia were "rebellious," and Christianity seems 
not to have affected them permanently. 1 A decade later we hear 
that hostile English and Dutch vessels were using this territory, 
particularly that between the bar of Ais and Jeaga, as an anchorage 
ground. 1 In 1680 the clergy of Florida desired to enter upon the 
conversion of the natives of the southern part of the peninsula, and 
in consequence the governor of Florida, Don Pablo de Hita Salazar, 
sent an interpreter to reconnoiter that region. The latter entered 
several Calos towns, but was finally turned back by the natives, 
who feared that the}- should be held responsible by the chief of Calos 
if they allowed him to proceed to that place. He reported that the 
Calusa Indians dominated all others in that part of the peninsula and 
forced them to pay tribute to their chief, who was known as "No 
he querido" ("Not loved"). 1 A letter written in 1681 states that 
many Indians fleeing from Guale had settled in the towns of Calos. 1 
Another effort to missionize the Calusa in 1697 also failed, but it 
is said that the Indians then living on Matacumbe Island were 
"Catholics. ' 
An intimate picture of the Indians of the southeastern coast is 
given by the Quaker Dickenson, who was cast away there with a 
party from Pennsylvania in 1699. 3 An attempt was made to "reduce" 
the Ais Indians to the Catholic faith in 1703, 4 but there is no evidence 
that any success was attained, and both they and the Calusa appar- 
ently remained unconverted to the very end of Spanish rule. Romans 
states that in 1763, the year when Florida passed from Spanish to 
British control, the last of the Calusa people, consisting of 80 fami- 
lies, crossed to Havana."' \ot all of the Calusa left the country, 
however, and indeed the emigrants may have been Tekesta and 
i Lowery, MSS. * Bareia, Florida, p. 322. 
2 Bareia. Florida, p. 316. '- RomaTis, Concise Xat. nist. Fla., p. 29. 
3 See pages 92-9:t, 389 et seq. 
