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A58447	A relation of the invasion and conquest of Florida by the Spaniards under the command of Fernando de Soto written in Portuguese by a gentleman of the town of Elvas, now Englished. To which is subjoyned two journeys of the present Emperour of China into Tartary in the years 1682 and 1683 : with some discoveries made by the Spaniards in the island of California, in the year 1683.	Gentleman of the town of Elvas.	1686 (1686)	Wing R840; ESTC R24492	132,830	290

of an Anchor with some bit●… that the Troopers had still reserved which wer●… tied to it to encrease its weight Thus we pu●… to Sea with a favourable wind and in very fai●… weather being the Eighteenth day of Iuly The Governour and Danhusco being on head with their Brigantines kept out two or three Leagues at Sea the other Captains bore up to the Governour to ask him if he designed to quit the shoar which he ought not to do without acquainting them seeing it was contrary to the resolution of Council that if he would not follow it neither would they follow him and every one would make the best of his way Moscoso answered That he would not undertake any thing without the advice of his Council that he stood onely off from the shoar that he might sail with more security in the night-time and that next day he would come in sight of it again when he saw his time We failed all that day and the next until the Evening with a fair wind and all the while in fresh water which was a surprize to us seeing we were a great way from the mouth of the great River but its Current being very strong and the Coast low it carries its fresh water a great way out into the Sea About night we discovered a little Island like a Rock where the Fleet came to an Anchor to take a little rest There Danhusco so prevailed by his reasons that all the Officers consented to stand out to Sea We followed that course two days but when we had a mind to put in again to the shoar we met with a contrary wind so that the fourth day we began to be in want of fresh water Every one cursed Danhusco and the Governour too for complying with his advice and all the Captains swore that they would no more leave the shoar let the Governour take what course he pleased It was the will of God that the wind veered about a little and four days after that the Fleet had stood out to Sea all our fresh water being spent we rowed in to shoar again with a great deal of difficulty and went to land on the sand where there was no shelter In the Evening the wind turned about to the South and blew full upon the shoar on which it forced our Brigantines The wind was high and our Anchors being but light and weak came home so that our Vessels drove In this extremity all leapt into the water by the Governours order and stood betwixt the Land and the Brigantines to keep them out in the water until the wind abated CHAP. XL. A●…storm disperses the Brigantines the joyn again at a Rock or little Island SO soon as the storm was over our men wen●… ashoar and dug pits which furnished us wit●… fresh water enough to fill the Casks of all th●… Brigantines Next day we set sail again and after two days came to an Anchor in a little Creel●… safe from the South-wind that blew at that time●… and was against us it detained us four days i●… that place till at length the weather being cal●… again we rowed out but towards the Evening the wind began to blow fresh so that it force●… the Brigantines upon the shoar We were sensible then of our fault in leaving our Road fo●… the Sea began to swell very high and the win●… blew so hard that the Brigantines could not keep company Two of them that were on head o●… the rest were forced into an Arm of the Sea tha●… run into the Land and the other five separate●… from one another a League or a League and a half were cast upon a slat open shoar not knowing where they were nor what was become o●… the rest the Sea being rough broke furiously upon that shoar and the Anchors could not hold The Oars signified nothing at all almost against ●…e violence of the storm though there were at ●…east seven or eight men at each Oar to keep the ●…essel in the water which made all the rest jump ●…ver-board When the wave that forced the ●…rigantine to land was past they thrust her out ●…gain with incredible pain and labour whilst the ●…est with bowls laved out the water that broke in●…o the Vessel In the mean time the tempest was still encreasing as our fears also of seeing our Brigantines in which all our hopes lay broken to pieces when we were attacked by a far more insupportable calamity for about night such a terrible quantity of Musketto's came about us that we were all over covered with them and their stingings caused so sharp pains that they seemed to be venomous About break of day the wind ceased and we had a calm but the Musketto's continued as bad as ever for they fell upon us in such numberless swarms that our white Sails appeared all black and the Rowers could not set their hands to an Oar without somebody by them to beat off these Insects However we were so glad to see the storm over that we laughed at the other inconvenience when by day-light we could see one another with monstrous faces and it was no unpleasant sight to behold how every one beat themselves to kill the Musketto's All fell a rowing and our Fleet got together again in that little Gulf where the two first Brigantines had put in to There we found of that scum of the Sea called Copeck much like to pitch which some indeed make use of instead of it for their Vessels as we our selves did having stayed two days in that place to re fit our Brigantines We sailed two days more and came to an Anchor in a Bay where we stay'd as long we sent out seven men in a Canoe to find out the bottom of the Bay but they could not The Fleet set sail with a South wind which was against us nevertheless seeing it was not violent all were so desirous to make an end of our Voyage as soon as we could that we employed our utmost endeavours to get out to Sea again We advanced then for two days with little Wind and much labour till we came to a little Island at the entry of an arm of the Sea The weather that hapned after gave us good cause to thank God for sending us into that safe Road There were a great many fish thereabouts which we took with Nets or the Hook and it hapned that a Souldier having thrown in a Line the end whereof was tied to his wrist a fish swallowed the Hook and Bait with so much force that it drew the man headlong into the water by good luck he bethought himself of an Axe which he carried about him wherewith he cut the Line and swom back to the Brigantine Bad weather kept us here a fortnight and then it pleased God to send us a favourable gale for which we rendred him our most humble thanks in a very devout Procession which we made along the shoar of that Island beseeching his Divine Majesty

one or two apart for the Governour the rest were divided betwixt the Captain and Souldiers They were chained by the neck and served to carry the Baggage pound the Maes and in other employments wherein the chain incommoded them not too much But seeing the love of Liberty makes any enterprize easie the Indian who was led to the Wood to provide fewel or to cut Maes sometimes killed his Master and ran away with the Chain others filed it with Flints which they used instead of Iron They who were catched in any of these actions pay'd dear for it to the end they might take from them the boldness of attempting the like another time When the Women or Children were an hundred or six score Leagues from their own Country they were let go without Chains these were very serviceable and learned Spanish very soon The Governour at length left Uzachil that he might go to Palache and in two days march came to Axille where the Indians did not at all expect us but seeing the Woods were near most part fled into them and escaped Next day being the First of October we set forward but first had a bridge made over a River that we were to cross in our way at the bridge it was a stones throw over where no ground was to be found and at the sides there was water up to ones middle The sides were covered with high and very thick bushes where the Indians made a shew of defending the passage but the General ordered his Cross-bow-men to advance who made them retreat and some Souldiers past over upon pieces of wood that were shoved a-cross to defend the entry of the Bridge So the General crossed over with all his men on Thursday St. Francis his day and came to Quarters at Vitachuco a Village of the Province of Palache The Indians had set it on fire and the Houses were still burning however we entred the Province which we found to be very well peopled and plentiful in Maes We met every where almost with Houses like to our Farm-houses in Spain and large Towns as Uzelu where we arrived on Sunday the twenty fifth of October and on Tuesday after at Anhayca of Palache where the Cacique who commanded the whole Province had his Residence The Camp-Master or Quarter-Master-General whose place it is to quarter the Army assigned us Quarters round the Town There were other Villages at half a League or at most a Leagues distance from whence we had good store of Maes Cucumbers small Beans and dried Prunes better than those of Spain the Trees that bear these Plums grow naturally in all the fields These Provisions were brought to Anhayca of Palache in sufficient quantities to serve us all the Winter The Governour knowing that the Sea was but ten Leagues off sent thither a Captain with some Horse and Foot who having past Ochete six Leagues from our Quarters came to the Sea-shoar where they found a great Tree cut down and shaped in form of a Manger they saw also the bones of dead Horses which made them conclude that that must be the place where Narvaez built the Barks wherein he was cast away the Governour being informed of that sent Danhusco and thirty Troopers to the Port of the Holy Ghost with orders to Caldeiran to leave that post and come to Palache Danhusco parted the Twentieth of November and found that the Indians were returned to Uzachil and to the other Villages yet he took none of them fearing that might stop his march and give them time to draw together He passed by their habitations onely in the night-time and took his rest for three or four hours in some by-place so that he made but ten days Journey to the Port from whence he sent two Caravels to Cuba on which he embarked twenty Indian women for Dona Isabella according to the Governours orders He went on board the two Brigantines with all the Foot and coasting along the shoar ●…ame to Palache Caldeiran made the Journey ●…y Land with the Troopers and some Cross-bow-men but the Indians set upon him on his march ●…nd wounded some of his men So soon as he was come to Palache the Governour sent to the Port planks nails and all other materials necessary for the building of a Bark which he fitted ●…ut and manned with thirty men well armed to ●…ruize in that Bay in expectation of the Brigan●…ines They had some engagements with the Indians who skulked in their Canoes about ●…hat Coast. In the mean time an Indian undiscovered by the Sentinels came and set fire to our habitation on Saturday the Nine and twentieth of November and seeing it blew a high wind one half of the Town was burnt down It was Sunday the Nine and twentieth of December before Danhusco arrived with his Brigantines The Governour having resolved to discover the Country to the West commanded out Maldonado with fifty Foot-souldiers to march along the Coast and search for some Harbours and at the same time he detached Troopers to go upon the scout about the Town because the Indians were become so insolent as to come and kill men within two Cross-bow-shot of our Camp These Troopers found two Indians and a woman gathering small Beans and though the Indians might have saved themselves yet they chose rather to die than to abandon the woman who was Wife to one of them They wounded three Horses whereof one died Some days after Caldeiran with those whom he Commanded entred into a Wood that was upon the rode to the Sea there he was set upon by Indians who forced him back and took from him the Provisions which were carried by his men In the mean while the time which the Governour had prefixed to Maldonado for his return was elapsed by three or four days which did not a little trouble him and he had resolved not to stay for him but eight days longer when that Captain came bringing with him an Indian of a Province called Ochuse threescore Leagues distant from Palache There he had found an Harbour of good Anchorage and safe against all weathers this extreamly satisfied the Governour who always hoped to find on that side some Country rich in Gold He sent Maldonado to the Havana for Ammunition and Provisions and gave him orders to return back to him again to the Port of Ochuse whither he was to go by Land That if any obstacle intervened that might hinder the Army from being there the Spring following Maldonado was to return to the Havana and come back again the next Spring after to wait for the Governour in that Port because he would engage in no other Enterprize before he had found Ochuse Maldonado being gone with these orders and his Company being given to Iohn de Guzman the Treasurer Iohn Gaytan brought a young Indian to the Governour who had been taken at Napetaca He told him that he was not of that Country but of another very remote towards the East and that when he was