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chief, taking a wooden platter of water, turned toward the sun and worshiped it, 
praying to it for victory over the enemy, and that, as he should now scatter the water 
that he had dipped up in the wooden platter, so might their blood be poured out. 
Then he flung the water with a great cast up into the air, and as it fell down upon 
his men he added, "As I have done with this water, so I pray that you may do with 
the blood of your enemies." Then he poured the water in the other vase upon the 
fire and said, "So may you be able to extinguish your enemies and bring back their 
scalps." Then they all arose and set off by land, up the river, upon their expedition. 1 
The following is Laudonniere's version of this ceremony: 
When he [Saturiwa] was sitting down by the river's side, being compassed about 
with ten other paracoussies, he commanded water to be brought him speedily. This 
done, looking up into heaven, he fell to discourse of divers things, with gestures 
that showed him to be in exceeding great choler, which made him one while shake 
his head hither and thither; and, by and by, with, I wot not what fury, to turn his 
face toward the country of his enemies, and to threaten to kill them. He oftentimes 
looked upon the sun, praying him to grant him a glorious victory of his enemies; 
which, when he had done, by the space of half an hour, he sprinkled, with his hand, 
a little of the water, which he held in a vessel, upon the heads of the paracoussies, 
and cast the rest, as it were, in a rage and despite, into a fire, which was there pre- 
pared for the purpose. This done, he cried out, thrice, He Thimogoa! and was followed 
with five hundred Indians, at the least, which were there assembled, which cried, 
all with one voice, He Thimogoa! This ceremony, as a certain Indian told me, famil- 
iarly, signified nothing else but that Saturiwa besought the Sun to grant unto him so 
happy a victory, that he might shed his enemies' blood, as he had shed the water at 
his pleasure. Moreover, that the paracoussies, which were sprinkled with a part of 
that water, might return with the heads of their enemies, which is the only, and 
chief, triumph of their victories. 2 
We learn from Pareja's Catechism that before they set out on an 
expedition the warriors bathed in certain herbs. 3 
Provisions were carried along by women, young boys, and berdaches, 
but frequently it seems to have been confined to parched corn. 4 
The following descriptions of the conduct of a Florida war expedi- 
tion accompany three of Le Moyne's sketches, but may very prop- 
erly be run together: 
When Saturiwa went to war his men preserved no order, but went along one after 
another, just as it happened. On the contrary, his enemy, Holata Outina, whose 
name, as I now remember, means "king of many kings," and who was much more 
powerful than he as regards both wealth and number of his subjects, used to march 
with regular ranks, like an organized army; himself marching alone in the middle 
of the whole force, painted red. On the wings, or horns, of his order of march were 
his young men, the swiftest of whom, also painted red, acted as advanced guards and 
scouts for reconnoitering the enemy. These are able to follow up the traces of the 
enemy by scent, as dogs do wild beasts; and, when they come upon such traces, they 
immediately return to the army to report. And, as we make use of trumpets and 
1 Le Moyne, Narrative, p. 5 (ill.). 
J Laudonniere, La Floride, pp. 98-99; French, Hist. Colls. La., pp. 251-252. 
* Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., xvi, p. 637. 
* Laudonniere, op. cit., p. 141; French, op.cit., p. 291. Spark probably means parched corn by "thehead 
of tnaiz roasted " on which he says they "will travel a whole day.". 
