uckingham Smith. Cabeca do Vaca was one of
the four who escaped, and, after living for years among the tribes of
Mississippi, crossed the river Mississippi near Memphis, journeyed
westward by the waters of the Arkansas and Red River to New Mexico and
Chihuahua, thence to Cinaloa on the Gulf of California, and thence to
Mexico. The narrative is one of the most remarkable of the early
relations. See also Ramusin, III. 310, and Purchas, IV. 1499, where a
portion of Cabeca de Vaca is given. Also, Garcilaso, Part I. Lib. I. C.
3; Gomara, Lih. II. a. 11; De Laet, Lib. IV. c. 3; Barcia, Ensayo
Crenolegico, 19.]

[Footnote 7: I have followed the accounts of Biedma and the Portuguese
of Elvas, rejecting the romantic narrative of Garcilaso, in which
fiction is hopelessly mingled with truth.]

[Footnote 8: The spirit of this and other Spanish enterprises may be
gathered from the following passage in an address to the King, signed by
Dr. Pedro do Santander, and dated 15 July, 1557:- "It is lawful that
your Majesty, like a good shepherd, appointed by the hand of the Eternal
Father, should tend and lead out your sheep, since the Holy Spirit has
shown spreading pastures whereon are feeding lost sheep which have been
snatched away by the dragon, the Demon. These pastures are the New
World, wherein is comprised Florida, now in possession of the Demon, and
here he makes himself adored and revered. This is the Land of Promise,
possessed by idolaters, the Amorite, Ainalekite, Moabite, Cauaauite.
This is the land promised by the Eternal Father to the faithful, since
we are commanded by God in the Holy Scriptures to take it from them,
being idolaters, and, by reason of their idolatry and sin, to put them
all to the knife, leaving no living thing save maidens and children,
their cities robbed and sacked, their walls and houses levelled to the
earth."

The writer then goes into detail, proposing to occupy Florida at various
points with from one thousand to fifteen hundred colonists, found a city
to be called Philippina, also another at Tuscaloosa, to be called
Cxsarea, another at Tallahassee, and another at Tampa Bay, where he
thinks many slaves can be had. Carta del Doctor Pedro de Santander.]

[Footnote 9: The True and Last Discoverie of Florida, made by Captian
John Ribault, in the Yeere 1692, dedicated to a great Nobleman in
Fraunce, and translated into Englishe by one Thomas Haclcit, This is
Ribaut's journal, which seems not to exist