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                                 NOTES

                                ON THE

                         FLORIDIAN PENINSULA;

                                  ITS

                           LITERARY HISTORY,

                    INDIAN TRIBES AND ANTIQUITIES.

                                  BY

                       DANIEL G. BRINTON, A. B.


                             PHILADELPHIA:
                      PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH SABIN,
              NO. 27 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, ABOVE CHESTNUT.
                                 1859.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by

                          DANIEL G. BRINTON,

      In the Clerk’s office of the District Court, in and for the
                   Eastern District of Pennsylvania.


                   KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, PHILADA.




                                TO THE

                        LOVERS AND CULTIVATORS

                                OF THE

                HISTORY AND ARCHÆOLOGY OF OUR COUNTRY,

                               THIS WORK

                      IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

                            BY THE AUTHOR.




PREFACE.


The present little work is the partial result of odd hours spent in the
study of the history, especially the ancient history--if by this term I
may be allowed to mean all that pertains to the aborigines and first
settlers--of the peninsula of Florida. In some instances, personal
observations during a visit thither, undertaken for the purposes of
health in the winter of 1856-57, have furnished original matter, and
served to explain, modify, or confirm the statements of previous
writers.

Aware of the isolated interest ever attached to merely local history, I
have endeavored, as far as possible, by pointing out various analogies,
and connecting detached facts, to impress upon it a character of general
value to the archæologist and historian. Should the attempt have been
successful, and should the book aid as an incentive to the rapidly
increasing attention devoted to subjects of this nature, I shall feel
myself amply repaid for the hours of toil, which have also ever been
hours of pleasure, spent in its preparation.

     THORNBURY, PENNA., APRIL, 1859.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.

LITERARY HISTORY.
                                                                    PAGE.
Introductory Remarks.--The Early Explorations.--The
French Colonies.--The First Spanish Supremacy.--The
English Supremacy.--The Second Spanish
Supremacy.--The Supremacy of the United States.--Maps
and Charts                                                            13


CHAPTER II.

THE APALACHES.

Derivation of the Name.--Earliest Notices of.--Visited
and Described by Bristock, in 1653.--Authenticity of
his Narrative.--Subsequent History and Final Extinction               92


CHAPTER III.

TRIBES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

§ 1. SITUATION AND SOCIAL CONDITION.--Caloosas.--Ais
and Tegesta.--Tocobaga.--Vitachuco.--Utina.--Soturiba.--Method
of Government.

§ 2. CIVILIZATION.--Appearance.--Games.--Agriculture.--Construction
of Dwellings.--Clothing.

§ 3. RELIGION.--General Remarks.--Festivals in Honor
of the Sun and Moon.--Sacrifices.--Priests.--Sepulchral
Rites.

§ 4