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On the twentieth, Don Diego paid us a vifit. He 

 is a young man of a frature fomewhat under the 

 middle fize, and with a very forry prefence. He 

 is very near as naked as his fubjecls, and the few 

 rags on his back were hardly worth picking up at 

 one's feet. He wore on his head a fort of fillet, 

 made of I know not what fort of fluff, and which 

 fome travellers would not have failed to call a dia- 

 dem. He was without attendance, or any mark of 

 diftinclion or dignity, or in mort any thing to fig- 

 nify what perfonage he was. A young pretty 

 bandfome woman, and decently clothed for an 

 Indian, accompanied him, and was, we were told, 

 the queen his wife. 



We received their majeflies of Florida, in a ca- 

 valierlike manner enough ; we made a fort of amity 

 with them however, and they feemed well enough 

 fatisfied with us \ but we could fee none of thefe 

 Caciques, whofe power and wealth are fo much 

 vaunted by the hiflorianof Florida. We faid a word 

 or two to Don Diego concerning the offer, which 

 Don Antonio had made us, of carrying us to St. 

 Auguftin, and he gave us to hope for all the fer- 

 vices that lay in his power. In order to induce 

 him the more to perform his promife, I made him 

 a prefent of one of my fhirts, which he received 

 very thankfully. 



He returned next day, having my fhirt above 

 his own tatters, and it trailed upon the ground. He 

 gave us to underftand, that he was not properly the 

 fovereign of his nation, but held of a Cacique at 

 fome difbnce. He is, notwithstanding, abfolute in 

 his own village, of which he lately gave us a con- 

 vincing proof. Don Antonio, who feemed at leaft 

 double his age, and who would have eafily beaten 



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