390 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
Jeaga. Later they allowed them to travel northward toward St. 
Augustine, which they reached September 15, after very great hard- 
ships, from which a few died. After having been very well enter- 
tained by the Spanish governor they set out northward again, reached 
Charleston, S. C, October 26, and arrived at Philadelphia February 1. 
The work is in the form of a diary, and proved so popular when it first 
appeared that it went through a number of editions. Internal 
evidence shows that great reliance may be placed upon it. 
In their travels along the Florida coast, after leaving Hobe, this 
party passed two Indian villages and came to a third called by the 
Spaniards Santa Lucia, where a mission station was at one time estab- 
lished, though there were no Spaniards there at the time. I have 
already given reasons for identifying this place with the Guacata of 
Fontaneda. 1 From this place they were hurried away at midnight of 
the second day, apparently at the command of the chief of Ais, who 
lived about 20 miles to the northward, and after passing another 
village they came to Ais in safety. Dickenson calls this place Jece, 
but there is practically no doubt of its identity with the Ais of the 
Spaniards. The chief of this town is said to have been chief of all the 
towns from Santa Lucia to Ais and northward. He was even in a 
position to domineer over the chief of Hobe, from whom he secured a 
part of the plunder the latter had collected. At Ais the fugitives 
found a party from another English vessel, and they remained one 
month, when they were rescued by a Spanish coast patrol. Between 
Ais and Mosquito Inlet they passed six inhabited towns and one that 
had been abandoned. The two last occupied towns were large and 
stood near together a little south of the inlet. Possibly they were 
the towns called Mayarca and Mayajuaca by Fontaneda, which were 
probably Timucua. Somewhere back of Cape Canaveral they came 
upon the first Indian plantation and saw some pumpkins growing 
there. This may have been about on the border between the Timucua 
Indians and those of southern Florida, for Dickenson asserts that all 
of those in the towns between Hobe and the place last mentioned 
raised nothing. 
The ethnological information which this work contains applies 
almost entirely to the Indians of Hobe, Santa Lucia, and Ais — i. e., 
those called by Fontaneda Jeaga, Guacata, and Ais. It is probable 
that their culture and language were the same, and very likely close 
to those of the Calusa, and it is fortunate that from the Ais, who appear 
to have had the greatest individuality, the largest part of this infor- 
mation comes. On account of the evident likeness of these three 
peoples I will place the material available together. 
« See p. 333. 
