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A12615	Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour out of the foure yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie. Wherin are truly obserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life of man: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants. Written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portugese by Richard Hakluyt.; Relaçam verdadeira dos trabalhos que ho governador dom Fernando de Souto e certos fidalgos portugueses passarom no descobrimento da Frolida. English.	Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.	1609 (1609)	STC 22938; ESTC S122013	119,248	188

cost aboue 30. ducats As many as were willing to come to the Viceroyes house he commanded to be apparelled and such as were persons of qualitie sate at his table and there was a table in his house for as many of the meaner sort as would come to it and he was presently informed who euery one was to shew him the courtesie that he deserued Some of the Cōquerors did set both gentlemen and clownes at their owne table and many times made the seruant sit cheeke by cheeke by his master and chiefly the officers and men of base condition did so for those which had better education did enquire who euery one was and made difference of persons but all did what they could with a good will and euery one told them whom they had in their houses that they should not trouble themselues nor thinke themselues the worse to take that which they gaue them for they had bin in the like case and had bin relieued of others and that this was the custome of that countrey God reward them all and God grant that those which it pleased him to deliuer out of Florida and to bring againe into Christendome may serue him and vnto those that died in that countrey and vnto all that beleeue in him and confesse his holy faith God for his mercie sake grant the kingdome of heauen Amen CHAP. XLIV Which declareth some diuersities and particularities of the land of Florida and the fruites and beasts and fowles that are in that Countrie FRom the Port de Spiritu Santo Port de Spiritu Santo is in 29. degrees on the West side of Florida where they landed when they entred into Florida to the Prouince of Ocute which may bee 400. leagues little more or lesse is a verie plaine Countrie and hath many lakes and thicke woods and in some places they are of wild pinetrees and is a weake soile There is in it neither Mountaine nor hill The Countrie of Ocute is more fat and fruitfull it hath thinner woods and very goodly medows vpon the Riuers Frō Ocute Ocute to Cutifachiqui Cu●ifachiqui may be 130. leagues 80. leagues thereof are desert and haue many groues of wild Pine trees Through the wildernesse great Riuers doe passe From Cutifachiqui to Xuala Xuala may be 250. leagues it is al an hilly Countrie Cutifachiqui and Xuala stand both in plaine ground hie and haue goodly medows on the Riuers From thence forward to Chiaha Coça and Talise Chiaha Coça and Talise is plaine ground dry and fat and very plentifull of Maiz. From Xuala to Tascaluça Tascaluça may be 250. leagues From Tascaluça to Rio Grande or the Great Riuer may be 300. leagues the Countrie is low and full of lakes From Rio Grande Rio Grande forward the Countrie is hier and more champion and best peopled of all the land of Florida And along this Riuer from Aquixo Aquixo to Pacaha and Coligoa are 150. leagues the Countrie is plaine and the woods thinne and in some places champion very fruitfull and pleasant From Coligoa Coligoa to Autiamque are 250. leagues of hillie Countrie From Autiamque A●●●●qu● to Agua●ay ●●●acay may be 230. leagues of plaine ground From Aguacay to the Riu●r of Daycao 120. leagues all hillie Countrie From the Port de Spiritu Santo vnto Apalache they trauelled from East to W●st 〈◊〉 72. and Northwest From Cutifachiqui to Xuala from South to North. From Xuala to Coça from East to West ●rom Coça to Tascaluça and to Rio Grande as far as the Prouinces of Quizquiz and Aquixo from East to West From Aquixo to Pacaha to the North. From Pacaha to Tulla from East to West and from Tulla to Autiamque from North to South to the Prouince of Guachoya and Daycao The bread which they eate in all the land of Florida is of Maiz Ma●z which is like course millet And this Maiz is common in all the Islandes and West Indies from t●e Antiles forward There are also in Florida great store of Walnuts 〈…〉 and Plummes Mulberries and Gr●pes They sow and gather their Maiz euery one th●●r s●uerall crop The fruits are common to all for they grow abroad in the open fields in great abundance without any neede of planting or dressing Wh●re there be Mountaines 〈◊〉 there be chestnuts they are somewhat smaller then the chestnuts of Spaine Frō Rio Gra●de Westward the Walnuts differ from those that grow more Eastward 〈…〉 for they are soft and like vnto Acornes And those which grow from Rio Grande to Puerto del Spi●itu Santo for the most part are hard ●nd the trees and Walnuts in shew like those of Spaine There is a fruit through all the Countrie which groweth on a plant lik● Ligoacan which the Indians doe plant 〈…〉 The fruit is like vnto Peares Riall it hath a verie good smell and an excellent taste There groweth another plant in the open field which beareth a fruit like vnto strawberries Strawb●rries close to the ground which hath a verie good taste The Plummes are of two kind●s 〈◊〉 of two ●●●ds red and gray of the making and bignesse of nuts and haue three or foure stones in them These are better then all the plummes of Spaine and they make farre better Prunes of them In the Grapes there is onelie want of dressing for though they bee big they haue a great kirnell All other fruits are very perfect and lesse hurtfull then those of Spaine There are in Florida many Beares and Lyons Beasts Wolues Deere Dogges Cattes Martems and Conies There be many wild Hennes as big as Turkies Fowles Partridges small like those of Africa Cranes Duckes Pigeons Thrushes and Sparrowes There are certaine Blacke birds bigger then Sparrows and lesser then Stares There are Gosse Hawkes Falcons Ierfalcons and all Fowles of prey that are in Spaine The Indians are well proportioned Those of the plaine Countries are taller of bodie and better shapen then those of the Mountaines Those of the Inland haue greater store of Maiz and commodities of the Countrie then those that dwell vpon the sea coast The Countrie along the sea coast is barren and poore and the people more warlike The coast runneth from Puerto del Spiritu Santo to Apalache E●st and West and from Apalache to Rio de las Palmas from East to West from R●o de las Palmas vnto Nueua Espanna from North to South It is a gentle coast but it hath many sholdes and great shelues of sand Deo gratias This Relation of the discouerie of Florida was printed in the house of Andrew de Burgos Printer and Gentleman of the house of my Lord Cardinall the Infante It was finished the tenth of Februarie in the yeere one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and seuen in the noble and most loyall citie of Euora FINIS

which the ensigne-bearer carried The Castellanes for the most part did weare very bad and rustie shirts of maile and all of them headpeeces and steele cappes and very bad lances And some of them sought to come among the Portugales So those passed and were counted and enroled which Soto liked and accepted of and did accompanie him into Florida which were in all sixe hundred men Sixe hundred men went with Soto into Florida He had alreadie bought seuen ships and had all necessarie prouision aboord them He appointed Captaines and deliuered to euery one his ship and gaue them in a role what people euery one should carrie with them CHAP. IV. How the Adelantado with his people departed from Spaine and came to the Canaries and afterward to the Antiles IN the yeere of our Lord 1538. in the moneth of Aprill the Adelantado deliuered his shippes to the Captaines which were to goe in them and tooke for himselfe a new ship and good of saile and gaue another to Andrew de Vasconcelos in which the Portugales went hee went ouer the barre of S. Lucar on Sunday being S. Lazarus day in the morning of the moneth and yeere aforesaid with great ioy commanding his trumpets to be sounded and many shots of the ordinance to be discharged Hee sailed foure daies with a prosperous wind and suddenly it calmed the calmes continued eight daies with swelling seas in such wise that wee made no way The 15. day after his departure from S. Lucar hee came to Gomera one of the Canaries on Easter day in the morning The Earle of that Island was apparrelled all in white cloke ierkin hose shooes and cappe so that hee seemed a Lord of the Gypses He receiued the Gouernour with much ioy hee was well lodged and all the rest had their lodgings gratis and gat great store of victuals for their monie as bread wine and flesh and they tooke what was needfull for their ships and the Sunday following eight daies after their arriuall they departed from the Isle of Gomera The Earle gaue to Donna Isabella the Adelantados wife a bastard daughter that hee had to bee her waiting maid They arriued at the Antilles in the Isle of Cuba at the port of the City of Sant Iago vpon Whitsunday Assone as they came thither a Gentleman of the Citie sent to the sea side a very faire roan horse and well furnished for the Gouernour and a mule for Donna Isabella and all the horsemen and footemen that were in the towne came to receiue him at the sea-side The Gouernour was well lodged visited and serued of all the inhabitants of that Citie and all his companie had their lodgings freely those which desired to goe into the countrie were diuided by foure and foure and sixe and sixe in the farmes or granges according to the abilitie of the owners of the farmes and were furnished by them with all things necessary CHAP. V. Of the inhabitants which are in the Citie of S. Iago and in the other townes of the Island and of the qualitie of the soile and fruites that it yeeldeth THe Citie of S. Iago hath fourescore houses which are great and well contriued The most part haue their walles made of bords are couered with thatch it hath some houses builded with lime stone and couered with tiles It hath great Orchards and many trees in them differing from those of Spaine there be figgetrees which beare figges Great figges as big as ones fist yellow within and of small taste and other trees which beare a fruit which they call Ananes Ananes in making and bignes like to a small Pineapple it is a fruit very sweete in taste the shel being taken away the kernel is like a peece of fresh cheese In the granges abroad in the countrie there are other great pineapples Great Pine-apples which grow on low trees and are like the * Erua babosa Aloetree they are of a very good smell and exceeding good taste Other trees do beare a fruit Mameis an excellent f●uit which they call Mameis of the bignes of Peaches This the Islanders do hold for the best fruit of the country There is another fruit which they call Guayabas Guayabas like Filberds as bigge as figges There are other trees as high as a iaueline hauing one only stocke without any bough and the leaues as long as a casting dart and the fruite is of the bignesse and fashion of a Cucumber one bunch beareth 20. or 30. and as they ripen the tree bendeth downeward with them they are called in this countrie Plantanos Plantanos and are of a good taste ripen after they be gathered but those are the better which ripen vpon the tree it selfe they beare fruite but once and the tree being cut downe there spring vp others out of the but which beare fruite the next yeere There is another fruit whereby many people are sustained and chiefly the slaues which are called Batatas Batatas or Potatos These grow now in the Isle of Terçera belonging to the Kingdome of Portugal and they grow within the earth and are like a fruit called Iname they haue almost the taste of a chestnut The bread of this countrie is also made of rootes which are like the Batatas The Cassaui ●oote And the stocke whereon those rootes doe grow is like an Elder tree they make their ground in little hillocks and in each of them they thrust 4. or 5. stakes and they gather the rootes a yeere and an halfe after they set them If any one thinking it is a Batata or Potato roote chance to eate of it neuer so little hee is in great danger of death which was seene by experience in a souldier which assone as hee had eaten a very little of one of those rootes hee died quicklie They pare these rootes and stampe them and squese them in a thing like a presse the iuyce that commeth from them is of an euill smell The bread is of little taste and lesse substance Of the fruites of Spaine there are Figges and Oranges and they beare fruit all the yeere because the soile is very ranke and fruitfull In this countrie are many good horses Store of good horses and there is greene grasse all the yeere There be many wild oxen and hogges whereby the people of the Island is well furnished with flesh Without the townes abroad in the Countrie are many fruites And it happeneth sometimes that a Christian goeth out of the way and is lost 15. or 20. daies because of the many paths in the thicke groues that crosse to and fro made by the oxen and being thus lost they sustaine themselues with fruites and palmîtos for there bee many great groues of Palme trees through all the Island they yeeld no other fruite that is of any profit The length and breadth of Cuba The Isle of Cuba is 300. leagues long from the East to the West and is in some places

They espied thirtie Indians comming ouer a plaine which the Cacique sent to discouer the Christians determination and assoone as they had sight of them they tooke themselues to flight The horsemen pursued them and slue tenne and took● fifteene And because the towne whither the Goue●●● went was neere vnto the Riuer he sent a Captai●●ith as many men as he thought sufficient to carrie 〈◊〉 barges vp the Riuer And because in his trauelling by land many times he went farre from the Riuer to compasse the creekes that came from it the Indians tooke occasion to set vpon them of the barges and put them in great danger because that by reason of the great current they durst not leaue the shore and from the bancke they shot at them Assoone as the Gouernour was come to the towne A towne hee presently sent crossebowmen downe the Riuer which came to rescue them and vpon the comming of the barges to the towne hee commanded them to bee broken and to saue the iron for others when it should bee needfull Hee lay there one night and the day following hee set forward to seeke a Prouince called Pacaha which hee was informed to bee neere vnto Chisca Pacaha neere vnto Chisca Great townes where the Indians told him there was gold He passed through great townes of Aquixo which were all abandoned for feare of the Christians Hee vnderstood by certaine Indians that were taken that three daies iournie from thence dwelt a great Cacique whose name was Casqui Hee came to a small Riuer where a bridge was made by which they passed that day till Sunset they went all in water which in some places came to the waste and in some to the knees When they saw themselues on dry land they were very glad because they feared they should wander vp and downe as forlorne men al night in the water The first towne of Casqui At noone they came to the first towne of Casqui they found the Indians carelesse because they had no knowledge of them There were many men and women taken and store of goods as mantles and skinnes Another towne as well in the first towne as in another which stood in a field halfe a league from thence in sight of it whither the horsemen ran This Countrie is higher drier and more champion then any part bordering neere the Riuer that vntill then they had seene There were in the fields many Walnut trees Walnut ●rees with soft shels bearing soft shelled Walnuts in fashion like bullets and in the houses they found many of them which the Indians had laid vp in store The trees differed in nothing else from those of Spaine nor from those which we had seene before but onely that they haue a smaller lease There were many Mulberrie trees and Plum trees Many Mulberrie trees and plum trees which bare red plums like those of Spaine and other gray somewhat differing but farre better And all the trees are all the yeere so fruitfull as if they were planted in orchards and the woods were verie thinne The Gouernour trauelled two daies through the Countrie of Casqui before hee came to the towne where the Cacique was and the most of the way was alway by champion ground which was full of great townes Many great townes so that from one towne you might see two or three He sent an Indian to certifie the Cacique that hee was comming to the place where hee was with intent to procure his friendship and to hold him as his brother Whereunto he answered That he should be welcome and that he would receiue him with speciall good wil and accomplish all that his Lordship would command him Hee sent him a present vpon the way to wit skinnes mantles and fish And after these complements the Gouernour found all the townes as he passed inhabited with people which peaceablie attended his comming and offered him skinnes mantles and fish The Cacique accompanied with many Indians came out of the towne and staied halfe a league on the way to receiue the Gouernour and when hee came to him he spake these words following Right high right mighty and renowned Lord your Lordship is most hartilie welcome Assoone as I had notice of your L●rdship of your power and your perfections although you came into my Countrie killing and taking captiues the inhabitants thereof and my subiects yet I determined to conforme my will vnto yours and as your owne to interpret in good part all that your Lordship did beleeuing that it was conuenient it should be so for some iust respect to preuent some future matter reuealed vnto your Lordsh●p and concealed from me For well may a mischiefe be permitted to auoid a greater and that good may come thereof which I beleeue will so fall out For it is no reason to presume of so excellent a Prince that the noblenesse of his heart and the effect of his will would permit him to suffer any vniust thing My abilitie is so small to serue you as your Lordship deserueth that if you respect not mine abundant good will which humblie offereth all kind of seruice I deserue but little in your presence But if it bee reason that this be esteemed receiue the same my selfe my Countrie and subiects for yours and dispose of me and them at your pleasure For if I were Lord of all the world with the same good will should your Lordship by me be receiued serued and obeyed The Gouernour answered him to the purpose and satisfied him in few words Within a while after both of them vsed words of great offers courtesie the one to the other and the Cacique requested him to lodge in his houses The Gouernour to preserue the peace the better excused himselfe saying that hee would lodge in the fields And because it was very hot they camped neere certaine trees a quarter of a league from the towne The chie e towne 〈◊〉 C●● que o● Ca●qu● The Cacique went to his towne and came againe with many Indians singing Assoone as they came to the Gouernour all of them prostrated themselues vpon the ground Among these came two Indians that were blind The Cacique made a speech to auoid tediousnesse I will onely tell in few words the substance of the matter Hee said that seeing the Gouernour was the sonne of the Sunne and a great Lord he besought him to doe him the fauour to giue sight to those two blind men The blind men rose vp presently and very earnestly requested the same of the Gouernour He answered That in the high heauens was he that had power to giue them health and whatsoeuer they could aske of him whose seruant he was And that this Lord made the heauens and the earth and man after his owne likenesse and that he suffered vpon the crosse to saue mankind and rose againe the third day and that he died as he was man and as touching his diuinitie he was and is immortall and that he ascended