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the Spaniards and natives. This invasion was followed by several 

 more in rapid succession, which occasioned some Indians to betake 

 themselves inland, while others are said to have gone as far south as the 

 Calusa country. In consequence of these attacks, several Guale chiefs 

 asked that they and their people might be removed to the islands of San 

 Pedro, Santa Maria, and San Juan, and a considerable body of them 

 were transferred to the south in this manner except that the island of 

 Santa Cruz, near the mouth of St. Johns River, was substituted for 

 San Pedro. Some Indians are reported to have fled to the English 

 rather than move into the peninsula, but there may be a confusion with 

 the first Yamasee removal, which took place in 1685. In 1699 Dicken- 

 son gives interesting descriptions of the three Guale missions in 

 Florida. It is uncertain whether these former Guale Indians accom- 

 panied the Yamasee to South Carolina in 1702 or not, but the remnant 

 was evidently incorporated into the Yamasee population after they 

 returned to the peninsula in 1715 and gradually disappeared along with 

 the Yamasee tribe itself, though in 1726 there were two missions near 

 St. Augustine occupied by Indians of the "Iguaja nation" and in 1728 

 two towns are noted served by one missionary. This mission station 

 was said to be called commonly "Aia Giin." Fearing attack from the 

 hostile tribes, they later moved "within the very shadow of the fort," 

 and, as stated, they probably became fused with the Yamasee. 



Guale population. — This was a populous province when the Span- 

 iards entered it in the latter part of the sixteenth century. In 1602 

 the missionaries claimed there were more than 1,200 Christians there. 

 In 1670, the English in South Carolina estimated that the Indians 

 in the St. Catherine Mission had about 300 men, and that the Indians 

 in all the missions, principally Guale and Yamasee, had about 700 

 men. In 1675 Governor Salazar stated that there were 506 Indians 

 in the Guale missions (see also Timucua). The greater part of this 

 nation had meanwhile evidently withdrawn among the Creeks. 



GUASCO 



A Hasinai tribe visited by the Spaniards in 1542, but barely men- 

 tioned afterward. 



HAINAI 



A Caddo tribe belonging to the Hasinai Confederation and among 

 whom was the principal temple. It would seem that they often sup- 

 plied the head chief. July 7, 1716, there was founded in this tribe 

 the Mission of Nuestra Seriora de la Purisima Concepcion. It was 

 abandoned in 1719 and reestablished in 1721 and a rudely fashioned 

 presidio was erected nearby, but the success of the mission was so slight 

 that in 1731 it was withdrawn from the Caddo country to San Antonio 

 River. The tribe is mentioned again by Sibley in 1805, and it main- 

 tained a separate existence after the removal from Texas to the north 



