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under a chief called Dulchanchellin. They are also identified as the 

 Indians of the towns called Aguacaleyquen, Uriutina, and Napetaca, 

 through which De Soto passed in 1539 and who engaged him in a 

 terrific battle near two small lakes in the same country. In 1564r- 

 65 the French belonging to the Huguenot colony came in contact with 

 them and assisted them at one time in a war with the Potano. In 1597, 

 after the Spaniards had expelled the French, Juan de Junco, an Indian 

 interpreter and leader of the Timucua and Fresh Water provinces, 

 brought the Timucua "heir apparent" and many other important 

 Indians to St. Augustine, and Fray Baltasar Lopez, the missionary at 

 San Pedro Tacatacuru, spent 3 months in the Timucua province, but 

 was recalled by the Guale revolt. In 1607 Father Prieto, during mis- 

 sion work among the Potano, made frequent visits to the Timucua, 

 which he reported to contain more than 20 towns and to be ruled by a 

 great chief "esteemed and feared through Florida." After accom- 

 panying Prieto on a visit to St. Augustine, this chief was himself 

 converted and assisted actively in the Christianization of the rest of 

 the tribe. The Mission of San Juan de Guacara, which dates from 

 about the same period, also served these Indians. San Martin de 

 Timucua was probably identical with the San Martin de Ayaocuto of 

 later mission lists. It is believed that some at least of the missions 

 named San Agustin de Urica, Santa Maria de los Angeles de Arapaja, 

 Santa Cruz de Cachipile, San Ildefonso de Chamini, and San Fran- 

 cisco de Chuaquin also served them. In 1656, however, the chief of 

 Ayaocuto, evidently the principal Timucua chief, led a rebellion, and 

 the names of most of the missions just enumerated disappear from 

 the records. In November 1659, Capt. Juan Fernandez de Florencia 

 was sent to rebuild the towns of Ayaocuto, Chuaquin, and Toloco, but 

 the names do not appear afterward. It is probable that many Timucua 

 fled from the country at this time, and that the rest were represented 

 at the missions of Santa Cruz de Tarihica, Santa Catalina, San Juan 

 de Guacara, and perhaps San Pedro. A possible echo of the old tribal 

 name appears in a list of Seminole towns made in 1823, one of which, 

 located in the old Utina country "W. of St. John's, E. of Black Creek," 

 bears the suggestive name Etanie. Otherwise the tribe disappears 

 from the record. 



Utina population. — A missionary letter dated 1602 estimates the 

 number of Utina ("Timucua") Indians at 1,500. This account speaks 

 of but 5 towns, but a document of 1607 states that the great chief of 

 this tribe, as noted above, ruled over "more than twenty towns." 

 Mooney suggests a total population of 8,000 in 1650, but includes in 

 the figure other tribes of the linguistic division. 



