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Sottuf's Ex- 

 pedition veiy 

 remarkable. 



Strange deal- 

 ing of the Co- 

 facbiguiaas. 



A Maid Go- 

 verns the 

 Countrey. 



Great Trea 

 futc of 

 Pearls. 



Great Tem- 

 peft. 



Sonus\ far J 

 ther Journey 

 very remark- 

 able. 



The City 

 jfyvWa. 



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one another, and in a thort time of eighty Men there remain'd onely four alive, vi*. 

 Kunne^Cabeca,Caftiao,Orantes y and EfieVanico, who at laft by Land reach'd to Kern 

 Galluia, and foon after to Mexico, having efcap'd a thoufand Dangers. Of <Pamfhtlus 

 NarVae^.ne\et any tydings being heard, it is fuppos'd he wasdrown'd. 



After this miferable Adventure, the Bufinefs of Florida lay dead for eleven years, 

 till Ferdinandus Sottus, choicn Governor of Cuba, obtain'd fo much of the Emperor 

 Charles the Fifth, that he ventur'd one Expedition more for Florida : Befides Sea- 

 men he carried five hundred Foot, and three hundred and fity Horfe . with which 

 Landing in the Bay DelEfpirito Santo,hc march'd againft the Cafique rttacucho, vt horn 

 be took Prifoner, with a thoufand of the Natives, whom he either put to the 

 Sword, or caus'd them to be torn in pieces by Dogs ; and ftaying all the Winter in 

 ^wkck.fortin'd that place, and furnifli'd himfelf with Provifions • he was inform'd, 

 that thirteen days Journey from thence lay the Kingdom of Cofachiqui, abounding 

 with Gold, Silver, and Pearls, which made every one of the Spaniards very defi- 

 rous to go thither, not withftanding the Way was very dangerous; for the vali- 

 ant Floridans lying in Ambufcade in the Corn.Fields, wounded and kill'd many of 

 them by Shooting from thence. Sottus, fo foon as March approached, fet forward on 

 his Way. In the poor Province of Achalaqui he found a few young People, and the 

 old mod of them blind. From Cofachiqui he was followed by four thoufand Natives, 

 who carried the Spaniards Luggage, and ferv'd them as Guides through Woods 

 and WilderneiTes. The feventhday they ftopp'd at a great River, whither Sottus 

 fent four Companies to feek out a Paflage over, whereof three return'd without 

 any effect, but the fourth, Commanded by Captain Annafto, and a Colonel of a 

 thoufand Cofachiquians, came to a Village built along the River ; in which they made a 

 a miferable Rout, killing all they lighted on, and hanging the Sculls of the Dead by 

 their fides I this done, they march'd back. Sottus at laft efpying a Village on the 

 other fide of the River, beckned to the Natives to come over to him . whereupon 

 fix came immediately ; who undemanding that hedefir'd their friendly Affiftance 

 and Trade, promis'd to acquaint their Governefs, being a youngMaiden : who 

 foon after came over to Sottus, and prefented him with a String of Pearl : he com- 

 plain'd to her for Provifions, which fhe promis'd in part to ftore him with. Crof. 

 fing the River he found a brave Countrey, where were Pearls as big as gray Peafe, 

 Copper of a golden colour, but no Gold. Out of the Tombs of their Princes the 

 Spanijh Officers, with the leave of the fore=mention'd Maid their Govcrnefs, got an 

 incredible Treafure in Pearls. In the Village Tolomeco they did the like. But here 

 their Provifions growing fcarce, the Army was divided into two Bodies, Qahbafar 

 de Gattegos leading one, and Sottm thc-other j yet the Defign of them both was on 

 the Province of Cbalaque \ whither marching, they were furpris'd by fuch a violent 

 Storm, that few would have been left to relate their Adventures, had not the Trees 

 bore it off from them . for it not onely Thundred and Lightned as if Heaven and 

 Earth would have met, but alfo Hail-ftones fell down as big as Eggs, which beat 

 down the Boughs of Trees. In the pleafant Valley Xmlu, belonging to the King- 

 dom of Cofachiqui, they rcfted fifteen days, and then march'd through Countreysof 

 Guaxale,Acops, and (v&, where above a thoufand Indians, adorn'd with Plumes of 

 Feathers and rich Furr Cloaks, came to meet and welcom them,and to defire them 

 from the Qafiqut to ftay there all the Winter ; but Sottus revolving to go t6 the Haven 

 Achufi, refus'd the fame. After this he view'd Talijfe, fortifi'd with woodden-and 

 earthen Bulwarks ■ where the Cafique Tafcalufa, a Man as big again as an ordinary 

 Spaniard, receiv'd Sottus with great civility, and conducted him to MaVtlla, lying in 

 a pleafant place. The City, furroundtd with double Pallifado's, fill'd up with 

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