The Hijlory of B o o k 1I« 



The Caribbians were originary Inhabitants of the Septentri- 

 onal part of America^ of that Country which is now called Flo- 

 rida : They came to Inhabit the Iflands after they had departed 

 from amidft the Apalachites , among whom they lived a long 

 time ? and they left there forae of their people, who to this 

 day go under the name of Caribbians : But their firft origine is 

 from the Cofachites, who only chang'd their denomination, 

 and were called Caribbians in the Country of the Apalachites, 

 as we (ball fee anon. 



The Apalachites are a powerful and generous Nation, which 

 continues to this prefent planted in the fame Country of Flo- 

 rida : They are the Inhabitants of a gallant and fpacious 

 Country called Apalacha, from which they have received their 

 name, and which begins at the altitude of thirty three de- 

 grees and twenty five minutes. North of the Equino&ial Line, 

 and reaches to the thirty feventh degree. This people have 

 a communication with the Sea of the great Gulf of Mexico or 

 Nett> spain^ by the means of a River, which taking its fource 

 out of the Apalachsan Mountains, at the foot whereof they 

 inhabit, after it hath wandred through many rich Campagnes, 

 difembogues itfelf at laft into the Sea neer the Iflands of Ta- 

 cobago : The Spaniards have called this River Riu del Spirito 

 Santo 5 but the Apalachites call it ftill by its ancient name of 

 Hitanachi, which in their Language fignifies fair and pleafant. 

 On theEaft-fide they are divided from all other Nations by 

 high and far-fpreading Mountains, whofe tops are cover'd with 

 fnow moft part of the year, and which feparate them from Vir- 

 ginia: on the other fides they adjoin to feveral inconfiderable 

 Nations, which are all their friends and confederates. 



Thefe Apalachites make it their boaft, that they had propa- 

 gated certain Colonies a great way into Mexico : And they 

 mow to this day a great Road by land, by which they affirm 

 that their Forces march'd into thofe parts. The Inhabitants 

 of the Country, upon their arrival gave them the name of 

 Tlatuici, which fignifies Mountaineers or High-Landers, for 

 they were more hardy and more generous than they. They 

 planted themfelves in a quarter like that from which they 

 came, fcituate at the foot of the Mountains, in a fertile foil, 

 where they built a City, as neer as they could like that which 

 they had left behind them, whereof they are poffefi'd to 

 this day. They are lb united there by inter-marriages and 

 other bonds of peace, that they make up but one people with 

 them 5 nor indeed could they well bedifcern'd one from the 

 other, if they had not retain'd feveral words of their originary 

 language, which is the only obfervable difference between 

 them. 



After the Apalachites had planted this Colony, the Cofachites, 

 who liv'd more towards the north of America^ in a fenny and 



fome- 



