{"1": {"fulltext": "^5", "height": "3305", "width": "2125", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class _\\nBook _.\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "3070", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3070", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "(^^ONICIiES\\nOF JEoj^pil.\\nBY V^\\nNORFOLK\\nJohn W. Barcroft, Publisher,\\nS3 Main Street.", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1S86,\\nBy JOHN W. BARCROFT, Norfolk, Va.\\nIn the OflBce of the Lihrarian of Congress, at Washington,", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nAbout the beginning of the second quarter of\\nthe eighteenth century, when we judge the fol-\\nlowing extracts of the chronicles open, Spain had\\nalready been drained of the larger part of her\\nboldest and most enterprising sons, who, led by\\nthe insatiable thirst for gold, had exhausted their\\nenergies in the wilderness of the new world and\\nalready had the national prosperity sunk helplessly\\nin consequence of this diversion of enterprise from\\nits legitimate, industrious and commercial pursuits.\\nSpain, now with the empire and mines of a world,\\npresented the marks of internal decay and of real\\npoverty, her vigor was impaired, her character de-\\ngraded; the once proud blazonry of Castile y Leon\\nhad faded.\\nStill the tide of emigration and adventure flowed\\nonwards, though in a diminished current; and now\\nthat the El Dorados of Mexico and Peru had be-\\ncome monopolized to a considerable extent, later\\nadventurers sought for newer fields, where as the\\n3", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nfirst pioneers, they might hope to derive the greater\\nadvantages.\\nHaving premised this by way of introduction we\\nshall proceed to give a free, yet fair rendition ol\\nsuch portions of the chronicles as may prove of\\nsufficient interest to the general reader. We deem\\nit proper to state that we shall alter the ortho-\\ngraphy of proper names in the text wherever thit\\ncan be done with propriety to meet the require-\\nments of another language and the lapse of one\\nhundred and fifty years thus for Tanase, Vatoga,\\nOoueke, Quanasse, etc., we shall substitute Ten-\\nnessee, Wautoga, Oowee, Hiwassee, etc.\\nIn conclusion, the regret may here be expressed\\nthat this work necessarily begins and ends abrupt-\\nly, for want of ampler material, and that many\\ndifficulties existed in the correct rendition of the\\ntext given.", "height": "3040", "width": "1822", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Gl|i^or|iclGS of Floi^ielq.\\nBDDK I,\\nCHAPTER 7.\\nTHE EXPEDITION TO CATENGEMA.\\n^P iy esta tiemjjo, at this time, says the chroni-\\nIj r cler, a company was formed here (Pensacola)\\nfor the prosecution of mining operations\\namong the high mountains which are situated\\nabout one hundred and fifty leagues towards the\\nnortheast. Having a perfect knowledge of all the\\nmaterial facts connected with the expedition that\\nfollowed, I trust my friends will not blame me\\nfor digressing at this point of my narative, though\\nwhat I am about to relate will be of some length.\\nThe person of most influence concerned in the\\nbusiness was Don Carlos de Lerida, a Catalan by\\nbirth, who in the indulgence of a wild career, had", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nrisked the forfeiture of his patrimony under a\\nmortgage, which he was now anxious to redeem.\\nWith this intent, accompanied by an only son, he\\nhad crossed the sea and like other noblemen\\nin the hope of soon amassing wealth. His original\\ndestination under a commission from the court had\\nbeen for Mexico, but his views underwent a sudden\\nchange when the vessel in which he sailed touched\\nhere by the way to disembark some troops, some of\\nthe first that were sent since the French cession.\\nHe had no sooner landed than he heard of the\\nexistence of immense mines in the interior. This\\ninformation struck the right chord of his heart,\\nand he forthwith applied himself with ardour to\\nprocure all means necessary to enable him to reach\\nthe desired region. His informant was one Oli-\\nviera Payez, a galley fugitive, an unprincipled\\nbraggart whose pompous speech and affected hero-\\nism covered the darkness and baseness of his\\npurposes.\\nFor a few years previous to this time, Oliviera\\nhad enjoyed the patronage and admiration of the", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 7\\nSenor Governor, whose own deficiency in all the\\nqualities of true and generous bravery,incapacitated\\nhim from discriminating these from the mere froth\\nof the bully. Oliviera then lodged at the palace, a\\nconstant attendant to echo his excellency s vain\\nand silly boasts. Matters stood thus for aAvhile,\\ntill when under the influence of wine, in an un-\\nlucky moment, Oliviera ventured to insinuate some\\ndecided doubts respecting one of Don Diego s\\nvaunted exploits. The offence was unpardonable\\nand to be rid of one whose presence had become\\nundesirable, the Governor despatched him on a\\nsecret mission among the Indians to the northward\\nadding slyly, that it suited a person of indom-\\nitable valor to go there. He had been absent a\\nconsiderable time after leaving Saint Augustine,\\nwhen he suddenly reappeared at Pensacola. His\\nobject in unbosoming himself to Don Carlos was\\nto secure in the enterprise one possessed of means\\nand ability to set it afoot, also whose disconnection\\nwith the existing Governor was the more likely to\\nyield the greater consideration to his informant", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nand indispensible guide. Oliviera gave an extrava-\\ngant account of the mineral wealth of that region,\\ncalled by the natives Catengema, whose confines he\\nhad recently visited. Another Mexico, he repre-\\nsented, rich in unappropriated mines and but\\nthinly peopled, was ready for their possession. Nor\\nwere occular proofs wanting to stimulate still\\nfurther the awakened cupidity of Don Carlos.\\nFourteen ounces of gold dust were exhibited and\\nreported to have been collected from the surface\\nin less than six weeks by an old Indian. In the\\neagerness of the moment, Don Carlos paused not to\\nenquire whether the country had been sulBQciently\\nreconoitered all he desired was to be led forthwith\\ntowards it. It will be seen presently that neither\\nhe nor Oliviera were altogether misled in his en-\\nthusiasm.\\nFifty-seven persons having clandestinely en-\\nlisted, rendevouzed on the island of Santa Isidora,\\nat the mouth of the Apalachicola, whither also\\nwere conveyed three larger boats, a few periauguas,\\na liberal supply of arms, ammunition, provisions.", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CHEOKICLES OF FLOEIDA. 9\\nmining implements and articles of trade. Previ-\\nous to their embarkation, Don Carlos assumed the\\nchief command and assisted by Oliviera and his\\nson Don Pacheco, the first and second officers\\nunder him, proceeded to draw up articles for the\\ngovernment of the company, and to fix the shares\\nin the enterprise, which received the sanction of all\\nthe rest of the adventurers who with but two excep-\\ntions, deserve no particular notice in this place.\\nThese two had reached the point of rendevouz a\\nfew days before, on their route from the Santa Fe\\nsettlement to Pensacola. When the objects of the\\nexpedition were made known to them, together\\nwith an invitation to join it, with the intimation\\nthat they would in no case be allowed to resume\\ntheir journey, they at last consented, but claimed\\nno share or compensation for the services they\\nwere willing to render. The latter of these two\\nnamed Teodoro, though poorly clad and deeply\\nbronzed by a tropical sun, was remarkable for the\\nhigh intellectual cast of his countenance. His\\ncommanding forehead, the piercing fire of his eye,", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nthe energy of his lips, united to prove him no or-\\ndinary man, yet there were traces in his features of\\npast care and trouble, things never to be obliter-\\nated quite from the memory or the outer man, but\\nover all these prevailed, as a halo, the holy calm\\nof resignation, internal peace, and unfeigned be-\\nnevolence. Andreo, his companion, was a very\\npersonification of meekness and contentment,\\nthough of an intellectual order, inferior by nature\\nand cultivation to Teodoro, his nice moral sense\\ncould scarcely be surpassed. He was also gifted\\nwith great strength, courage and power to endure\\nexcessive hardships and privations. He had a fa-\\nvorite maxim That enmity in the heart was worse\\nthan a thousand enemies wiilioutr\\nOn Easter Monday, all things being in readiness,\\nwe (here the chronicler inadvertently shows that\\nhe also was present) commenced ascending the\\nriver in the boats. The neighboring Indians were\\nat this time in league with the Government, and\\ntherefore friendly towards the Spaniards. Seizing\\nupon this favorable circumstance Don Carlos had", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. H\\nengaged the chief o\u00c2\u00a3 the Talachy (Tallahassee)\\ntribe with upwards of a hundred warriors to march\\nalong the left bank of the river as an escort to the\\nfew men who took care of the beasts of burthen\\nbelonging to the expedition, until they should\\nreach the confines of the Muscogees. When they\\nhad proceeded about fifty leagues, they were threat-\\nened with a serious disaster, for Soquilla, a Creek\\n{Cree in the original) chief, being informed that\\nboats were ascending the river, accompanied by In-\\ndians on the war path, had collected his warriors\\nabout a league below his village, for purpose of\\ngiving battle. The position of the Creeks on a\\nthickly wooded promontory at a bend of the river,\\nwhere of necessity the boat must hug close to the\\nshore to avoid the main current, was admirably\\nchosen for an effective discharge of arrows and to\\nscreen the Indian canoes from view, till the decisive\\nmoment should arrive for an advance, while at\\nthe same time an ambuscade was laid against the\\nland force among the canebrakes. To the acute\\nperception of the Talachy chief was due the timelv", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 CHBONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\ndetection of danger for pausing suddenly on the\\nmarch he declared they were watched by spies and\\nordered immediate preparation for battle. At a\\npreconcerted signal Don Carlos repaired with the\\nboats to the place where the halt had been made.\\nIndian scouts were sent out in various directions,\\nwho finally confirmed the apprehensions of the\\nchief. Meantime Soquilla, having found the plan\\nof an ambuscade frustrated, came to the determi-\\nnation to hold a parley. He therefore sent an In-\\ndian down the river to communicate with the ex-\\npedition. Glad of a chance to avoid all collision\\nthe Spaniards received the messenger with joy, and\\nsent him back with presents, and friendly assur-\\nances. This soon brought about a council, at\\nwhich all smoked the calumet and partook of the\\nblack drink (a decoction of a species of holly) of\\nnauseous taste, denied to all but warriors. Soquilla\\nwas so delighted with the present of a burning\\nglass, fancifully set in false stones, by means of\\nwhich he could draw fire from heaven, that he\\nswore to conduct the expedition in person, to the", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CHKOKICLES OF PLOKIDA. 13\\nmountains of Oatengema. Before doing so he en-\\ntreated the Spaniards to spend a few days with\\nhim at a village called Achitfca, a short distance\\nwest of the river. His invitation was cheerfully\\naccepted under the assurance of a safe conduct for\\nthe rest of the journey.\\nAbout the fifth week the navigation proved im-\\npracticable and the boats were abandoned. The\\nroute thence extending overland though mainly\\nalong the banks of the same river. Soquilla s train\\ngenerously assisted in transporting the. provisions\\nand mining implements. Several villages lay in\\ntheir way, of which Coweta was by far the most\\nconsiderable. Here the Spaniards were received\\nwith marked hospitality, as indeed they were every-\\nwhere, through the influence of Soquilla. Up to\\nthe village of Kesauke the company had proceeded\\nentirely by direction of Oliviera; there however\\nthe question was debated whether the route should\\ncontinue towards the northeast or turn due north.\\nOliviera contended for the latter because from that", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 CHRON ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\npoint had come the specimen of gold which had\\nfirst conjured up the expedition but the natives\\nhaving displayed an entire ignorance of mines in\\nthe latter direction and spoken of the high moun-\\ntains to the northeast where gold had been found,\\nDon Carlos decided to preserve the general line of\\nmarch. They had not gone far from the village\\nwhen they entered one of the most charming re-\\ngions of this continent, of forest-clad mountains\\nand of fertile valleys, reposing in a balmy atmos-\\nphere a region whose wild and exhuberant beauty\\nrose to view as fresh as when creation first burst\\ninto existence.\\nThey now reached the pass of Tulamassee, the\\napproach to which is so gradual that one would\\nscarcely know he was crossing a dividing ridge\\nbut for the fact of two rills issuing from the same\\nsource, a little morass at the summit, and running\\nin opposite directions. At this point they were\\nmet by Hiantuga, the young war chief of the\\nCherokees (in the original Cherake, at times Che-", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 15\\nlake) who, in the midst of his followers, demanded\\nthe object of this visit to his country. Oliviera\\nreplied through a Creek interpreter that they were\\nSpaniards, friends of the Indians and enemies to\\nthe English (who had a few years before spread\\nhavoc among the savages), and exhibiting offerings\\nintended for the great chiefs, requested permission\\nto search the mountains for gold. Hiantuga ap-\\npeared quite satisfied. He invited them to proceed\\nwith him to Attinha, a town situated about five\\nleagues below on the Tense (Tennessee) at which\\nsource they now were Soquilla and his escort being\\nwell remunerated by Don Carlos took leave to\\nreturn home.\\nAttinha or Itlah, for it was called by either\\nname, is built on a hill, from the base of which\\na plain of small extent intervenes to the river\\nbank. The village consists of a single roAv of\\nlodges constructed of poles, mud and bark, of\\nvery humble appearance but for its commanding\\nsite. In the center of the plain below rises a\\nsingular monument of earth, having a semi-cir-", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 CHEOKICLES OF FLORIDA.\\ncular base and flattened top. The use of this\\nmound could not be ascertained as no tradition\\nnow existed to reveal its origin, only this that\\nit was of great antiquity. Here Don Carlos took\\nformal possession of Catengema, in the name of\\nthe King, by planting the cross and displaying\\nthe banner of Spain. The mound was called the\\nStar of Mary (Estrella de Sta. Maria). Tents were\\nthen erected and such military precautions taken\\nas the situation required. In the meantime Don\\nCarlos was invited to a talk with the great chiefs\\nof that region, who, attended by the grandees in\\nall the gaudiness of their warlike attire, had come\\ndown into the plain. Augichee, otherwise called\\nEion Augichee or Drowning Bear was venerable\\nin appearance, though seventy winters had not\\nbent his frame or impaired his vigor. Unlike his\\nattendants he wore no ornaments except a few\\neagle feathers of uncommon length bound with a\\nred fillet to his forehead, while a simple, though\\nglossy, bearskin hung from his shoulders. Don\\nCarlos having sent Oliviera in advance with pre-", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 17\\nsents for the chiefs to gain their good will, when\\nhe arrived he found the chiefs not only willing but\\neager to negotiate with people who had shown\\nthemselves so generous. The amiable disposition\\nof the old chief, as events afterwards proved, was\\nowing to higher motives, for being in advance of\\nthe intelligence of his race, he sought for know-\\nledge, and turned hopingly to the Spaniards as\\nthose likely to instruct them. No difficulty ensued\\nin concluding a sort of a treaty on the terms dic-\\ntated by Don Carlos. Full permission was ac-\\ncorded and guides tendered him for the exploration\\nof the country. He received a liberal present of\\nprovisions, with the promise of continued supplies\\nupon very moderate terms, and was allowed to\\nmake a settlement at any place not already appro-\\npriated. With their affairs so favorably arranged,\\nall that was immediately wanting by the Spaniards\\n%as language to enlarge their intercourse with the\\npeople. In the lace conference the interpreter was\\na Cherokee who understood the Creek language,\\nand was thus able to communicate with Oliviera", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 CHROKICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nand Don Carlos. In passing, it must be remarked\\nthat Oliviera had learned the language of signs\\nwhilst at the galleys, and was also so apt a linguist\\nthat a few days in his transition from tribe to tribe\\nenabled him to acquire enough of the dialect to\\nexpress himself intelligently. In the meantime a\\nfreshet came on and delayed a reconnoissance of\\nthe country for a few days.\\nAs Augichee demands our attention in this place\\nI shall go back to relate some adventures connect-\\ned with his past career. When, by inheritance or\\nnatural ability, he had risen to the rank of a war\\nchief, he immediately planned an attack on the\\nCreeks. All attempts to dissuade him from this\\nproject were vain, and to such he opposed the\\nclaims of an hereditary grudge and the necessity\\nhe felt to show that his dignity was not unmerited.\\nAs it often happens, the young warriors who had\\nnever been in battle were warm in his support and\\nhad given him the token.\\nSeeing matters at this pass, an old chief advised", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 19\\nthe mustering of the whole tribe before entering\\nupon a war against so warlike a nation as the\\nCreeks. This counsel was bitterly opposed by Au-\\ngichee, because he was well aware how very averse\\nthat portion of the Cherokees in the immediate vi-\\ncinity of the enemy were to a renewal of their\\nfeuds, and beside, he feared if other townships be-\\nyond his influence were brought into the enter-\\nprise, the command might fall into the hands of\\nsome older and more popular chieftain. He there-\\nfore used every means and argument to keep the\\nmovement within his preconcerted plan. By well\\nmanaged threats and promises he eventually won\\nover all whose influence and aid were desirable,\\neven the two chiefs of Oconorocto and Watauga\\n(Vatoga) hastened to offer their services an offer\\ndoubly acceptable to Augichee, as he had hitherto\\nlooked upon them with suspicion, or as possible\\nrivals for public favor.\\nTo attract as little attention as possible, five or\\nsix hundred warriors set out in the night. The\\nmonth of August had been fixed upon for the cam-", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\npaign, because the maize then nearly ripe, stood\\nready in the fields to supply the foraging parties.\\nThe march was kept in single files with long inter-\\nvals from man to man, with scouts in advance, and\\nsentinels on the flanks. Whenever it was neces-\\nsary runners kept up a constant communication\\nbetween the front and rear. As they approached\\nthe confines of the Creeks, they marched only in\\nthe night, carefully avoiding every circumstance\\nthat might attract the attention of the enemy.\\nThe first irruption was in the night, a whole dis-\\ntrict and its villages were surprised, the people in-\\ndiscriminately slaughtered and the dwellings laid\\nin ashes. From this time scenes of disaster at-\\ntended Augichee, which the bravery of his men\\nand his own undaunted behaviour could not with-\\nstand. The vengeance of the Creeks burnt fiercely\\nafter them. From river to river, from forest to\\nforest, Augichee sternly and unrelentingly main-\\ntained the war, but with a courage now bordering\\non despair. His force had now diminished to two or\\nthree hundred half famished wretches when he", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 21\\nreached the fork of two large rivers, with the enemy\\nin hot pursuit. A dark stormy night intervened as\\nB, short respite from impending ruin. A leader of\\nordinary character, well knowing that the van-\\nguished were devoted to certain death, seeing no\\nmeans of escape, would have decided to rush in\\ndesperation on the foe and sell their lives at the\\nhighest price; but Augichee was of another stamp.\\nThat very day a Creek woman had thrown herself\\nin his way, with the avowed purpose to claim pro-\\ntection or fall beneath the tomahawk. She was\\nthe wife of a chief who had cruelly maltreated, then\\nthreatened her with divorce. The latter indignity\\nin favor, too, of a rival, had so stung her into\\nmadness that she had attempted to kill him, but\\nfailing in this, she had escaped to the Oherokees.\\nHer features were masculine, her person was tall,\\nrobust and of a haughty bearing. When Augichee\\nhad assured her of protection, she uttered these\\nwords in a solemn tone, Now your foe is my foe.\\nIt was in the midst of a retreat with his hands\\nreddened with blood that Augichee met Chiusteh.", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 CHRONICLES OF FLOEIDA.\\nWhen questioned concennng the present locali-\\nty, Chiusteh described one of the rivers as then\\nentirely impassable, while the other was only ford-\\nable for about tAvo-thirds of its breadth, at a certain\\npoint which passage she thought was strictly\\nguarded by a strong party of Creeks. She in-\\nformed him that for sometime past the enemy had\\ndetermined to drive the Cherokees into this dan-\\ngerous position and that on the previous morning,\\nwhen about to succeed in the attempt, the great\\nCreek warrior had sent a message to a large gather-\\ning of warriors recently arrived, and now encamped\\ntwo leagues below, with orders that they should\\nmove up at sunrise and assist in the capture of\\nAugichee and his band. It appeared that so soon\\nas they had found the snare to succeed, the pur-\\nsuers had called a halt in order to receive reinforce-\\nments, for the number of combatants, although\\nstill considerable, had been much reduced by the\\nconflicts of the last few days. In this strait the\\ndecision of Augichee was instant, his words brief\\nWe, too, go to the great meeting.", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 23\\nHe at once proceeded to construct rafts of poles,\\nbranches and vines, rude indeed in appearance, but\\nsufficient for his purpose. On these rafts they\\nsafely floated down the river though half im-\\nmersed in water. They had scarcely entered the\\nmain current when some dim watch-fires became\\nvisible, the beacons which were to light them to\\ntheir foes. The landing at a proper place was\\neffected with great difficulty and caution, but once\\nashore, Augichee so disposed his force that the\\nmain attack should proceed continuously from one\\npoint of the encampment, while some picked men\\nwhom he had sent to the opposite point should\\ndisconcert the enemy. Aroused by an attack in\\nthe dead hour of the night, in absolute surprise, the\\nCreeks made, in the first place, no attempt at re-\\nsistance those who were found on the spot were\\nkilled the others flying in the opposite direction\\nto rally there, as soon as they had reached the out-\\nskirts, were asaulted with a fierce war whoop which\\nsent them back with a fearful recoil towards the\\ncenter among a group of terrified women. Dread-", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nfill collisions now ensued among themselves. By\\nestimation upwards of fifteen hundred souls were\\ncongregated on the spot, of whom not one-third\\nescaped the great slaughter, which was believed to\\nhave been due mostly to their turning arms against\\neach other in the darkness and consternation of the\\nhour. When the sun arose it was over a field of\\nthe dying and the dead. Of the cruelties practised\\nthere I will not write.\\nWhen the din and excitement of battle had sub-\\nsided and the braves were still prowling among the\\ndebris of the field of carnage, Augichee, possessed\\nby one master thought, sought around for Chiusteh.\\nHe had seen her at the onset exhibit acts of\\nheroism with cool determination that might have\\ngraced a warrior, but when hurried on by fury into\\nthe thickest of the fight, he had missed her pre-\\nsence till the shouts of victory sounded in his eai?s.\\nWith gloomy forebodings he retraced his steps.\\nOn approaching the river he discovered her bend-\\ning m mute agony over the corpses of her husband\\nand brother, which she had dragged together from", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "CHKONICLES OF FLOKIDA. 25\\nthe midst of the slain; for a moment the natural\\ntenderness of woman s heart had triumphed over\\nher wrongs. Woman, said Augichee, mourn-\\nfully, as he gazed upon her, Woman, leave the\\ndead they are deaf to the voice of grief and love.\\nNo voice can rouse them from their sleep no, not\\neven Augichee s battle cry. Ah, she rejoined\\nin anguishing tones, let Chiusteh die the traitor-\\ness of her race with hands red with kindred blood\\nwhere can she claim a country or a friend?\\nBoth, in Augichee, was his reply, for his fixed\\ndetermination was to make her his wife. He-\\nthought not of her consent, for was she not his^\\ncaptive? So, with gentle compulsion, he led her\\ninto the midst of the assembled warriors.\\nChiefs, were his words, when I was urged to\\nwed, I said the bear mates not with the muskrat;\\nnow I have found a mate. Such was the mar-\\nriage.\\nThe Cherokee having seized many canoes at the\\nlanding place and taken such booty as they prized,\\nembarked homeward for the highest point attain-\\n2", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nable on the river. In a few weeks more, some two\\nhundred warriors returned to Attinha amidst the\\nmingled shouts for victory and the wailing of\\nwomen for departed friends.\\nThough obedience was shown to Augichee as the\\nmost renowned warrior of his time, and he was\\ncalled at the council fires the drowning bear who\\nhad reached the shore to destroy his enemies, yet\\nhe was not happy. The father of several children,\\nhe had witnessed the death of all but two, a son\\nand a daughter. The first was now a young man\\nof diminutive stature and lame because of a club\\nfoot, for which natural defects he was for a long\\ntime the peculiar aversion of his father and had\\nacquired the nick-name, in derision, of Taco-taka.\\nA few years before the advent of the Spaniards, the\\nneglected Taco-taka had, notwithstanding his\\nyouth, gained a reputation for wisdom on account\\nof his shrewdness and powers of observation.\\nThis, together with a most affectionate disposition,\\nhad in a measure so softened the old chief s heart\\nthat he was no longer heard to say Taco-taka is a", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "CHROJS ICLES OF FLORIDA. 27\\ndog, but simply Taco-taka is no warrior. It is\\nto Taco-taka that I owe many facts in this narra-\\ntive.\\nThe other surviving child was now about eigh\\nteen years old. As she was reckoned quite a beauty\\nin the nation, I will endeavor to describe her in a\\nfew words, to show how relative are our notions of\\nbeauty. Unlike her father or mother she was of a\\nmiddle size, rather square built and fleshy. Her\\nmovements exhibited nothing of the agility or\\ngrace so apt to be associated with our ideas of the\\nsavage maiden. Her features corresponded with\\nher person, a degree of passiveness was inscribed\\non all rarely was she moved to animation. Her\\nface was rather large and heavy, with cheek bones\\nvery prominent, over which peered two very small,\\nblack eyes. Her mouth, with a set of large and\\nprominent teeth exposed to view, was certainly not\\nenticing to any but Cherokees, especially when\\nadded to these she possessed the nasal twang of the\\nlanguage in its perfection. A gently arched fore-\\nhead surmounted by coarse coal-black hair would", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nbe with us redeeming features. Such was Eusteka-\\n(in the original Huesteka) the pride of the Chero-\\nkees, both from her personal charms and social\\nposition, the belle of belles.", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\n?HAT portion of the Tennessee valley in which\\nthe explorers were now encamped, is an irregu-\\nlar oval space comprised between the Cowee\\nmountains on the east and the high Nantehali\\nrange on the west. It extends about twelve leagues\\nfrom Tulamassee to lallatta at its nothern ex-\\ntremity where the two chains just mentioned con-\\nverge, and through whose disrupted rocks the river\\nforces its way. Within this valley numerous moun-\\ntain streams pour tribute into the main or central\\nriver, which latter is fordable at an ordinary stage\\nof water. Though charmed with the fertility of\\nthis valley, its picturesque beauty and mild climate,\\ntogether with the amiable inhabitants, the\\nSpaniards were soon satisfied that the main object\\nof their search was not to be there attained. In\\ndue time the persons who had been sent out to ex-\\nplore the country to the north and east, beyond the\\n29", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 CHROKICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nTuckasege river, returned with unfavorable reports\\nas to gold deposits, but they were charmed with\\nthe country.\\nHere I am tempted to give the verses of a youth\\nwho had wandered with a companion from Santa\\nFe, one gifted with poetic, though uncultivated\\npowers, whose graces, like the humble violet,\\nbloomed in obscurity:\\nArboles, los montes y bosques, and all that\\nare too much for the present pen. The following is\\nadopted as a substitute]:\\nThe tangled forest s silent shade\\nHas greater charms for me\\nThan wealth, with all its gay parade\\nAnd gorgeous finery.\\nBeneath the wild wood s pleasant gloom\\nMy mind is free from care,\\nEach waving leaf, each floweret s bloom.\\nBrings sweet reflections near.\\nThe lofty oak, the creeping vine,\\nAnd blossoms rich and fair.\\nIn one embowering roof combine\\nTo make the scene most dear.\\nWhile warbling songsters sweetly sing\\nIn notes of tender love.\\nAnd cheer the stranger wandering\\nBeneath the shady grove.", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLOEIDA. 31\\nBut to return, the only hope of success then\\nrested on those who had gone to explore the west-\\nward, and when for three days afterwards no\\ntidings had arrived from that quarter, the greatest\\nuneasiness prevailed in the encampment. At night\\nall eyes were turned in the direction of the Nante-\\nhali range and its highest peak the Marihaez, when\\nsuddenly a signal fire appeared near the summit of\\nthe latter, which no sooner had Don Carlos seen,\\nthan he exclaimed with joy, It is Pacheco s, the\\nmines are discovered. Indeed, this had been pre-\\nconcerted in the event of success, and his reaching\\nthe summit at night. In a moment the fire de-\\nscended in a waving, serpentine line. The moun-\\ntains were on fire, a fringe of flickering and moving\\nlights skirted the western horizon, starred here and\\nthere, whenever the drier trees became ignited from\\nthe leaves and grass below. A revulsion of feelings\\nnow succeeded; anticipating the realization of their\\nhopes and the rewards of their toils, the Spaniards\\nspent the night in glee and carousals.\\nI will now relate what occurred to Don Pacheco.", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "33 CHROI^ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nHe had started, in company Avith Oliviera and two\\nother persons, under the guide of Hiantuga. After\\nascending along a stream, called Catuga, for nearly\\nfive leagues, they reached the very steep pass of the\\nNantehali, which they surmounted with consider-\\nable difficulty and fatigue. The descent on the\\nother side is less abrupt and along a small moun-\\ntain rill which falls into the Nantehali river at the\\nbase. At the confluence they found the village of\\nOconorocto, where they were received with great\\nkindness by its venerable chief Shawnee. At\\nthis point the river is quite shallow, and not\\nvery rapid, though the scenery is most imj^osing.\\nThe mountains present very bald or steep aspects.\\nThe trail here is frequently interrupted by fallen\\ntrees or swept by torrents, and at times overhang\\nfearful precipices. Three leagues onward occurred\\nanother mountain pass, the descent from which\\nAvas exceedingly steep for about a thousand paces.\\nFrom this, however, a short distance placed them\\nbeyond the great mountain ranges, and thence they\\npursued the way down a small stream, called Tus-", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "CHEOKICLES OF FLORIDA. 33\\nquitta, whicli meanders in a very pleasant valley.\\nHere Oliviera first discovered traces of gold dust.\\nFurther on they entered the fertile valley of the\\nHiwassee whose scenery is more open and milder\\nthan any they had yet passed. On the third night\\nthey stopped at the village of Charna on the left\\nbank of the river. In consequence of important\\ninformation, Hiantuga conducted them on the next\\nmorning in a northern course to Hiattee river, a\\nbranch of the Hiwassee. The way was over a\\nbeautiful and spacious plain which extends on the\\neast towards the great mountain range. The\\nIndians called this the plain of the dazzling\\nbird the subject of a fanciful legend. After a\\njourney of about seven leagues they entered the\\nvalley of the Hiattee which presents a most beauti-\\nful vista, indeed, one of the most beautiful in the\\nworld, extending eight leagues up a gently inclined\\nplane of varying widths, through which meanders\\nthe river. This plane is bounded on either hand\\nby steep hills that gradually rise in elevation as\\nthey approach the high peaks in the distance. The", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 CHRONICLES OP FLORIDA.\\nindications of gold became very evident as the\\nvalley was ascended, till examining the roots of an\\nuptorn tree they discovered enough gold adhering\\nthereto to justify operations there. Pursuing the\\nsearch, gold deposits were found in almost all\\ndependent situations, that is, at the base of steep\\nhills, in ravines and in the beds of rivulets. Gold\\ndust was usually found in the gravel but little\\nremoved from the surface and immediately above\\nthe slate rock.\\nElated with joy, the explorers would have\\nhastened back to their comrades had it not been\\nfor a love adventure which detained Don Pacheco\\nfor a few more days at Wahu. The charmer was\\nOmuna, who was regarded by the Spaniards, but\\nnot by her countrymen, the most beautiful woman\\nof the nation. Her form and features and her\\nToice reminded one more of an Andalusian maiden\\nthan aught else. While roaming through the\\nforest in quest of game, Don Pacheco came sud-\\ndenly where she stood alarmed. Mutual surprise,\\nand perhaps admiration, ri vetted then for awhile?", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLCmiDA. 35\\nbut when he ventured to approach nearer she\\ndarted through the tangled bushes and was lost to\\nhis sight. Thoughtlessly, he dropped his gun and\\npursued in the direction she had gone, but his\\nefforts to reach her were in vain. Her image\\nhaunted him till, on inquiry of some friends, he\\nlearned she lived at Wahu. There he sought her\\nand found she was not indifferent to him, but she\\nprudently reserved her final decision till her\\nbrother (who had gone on a hunt) should return.\\nFor this cause he entertained a high sense of\\nrespect for Omuna. Thus they became mutually\\nattached to each other because she, like her sex\\nin general, admired a superior nature in him, and\\nbecause he found his heart fascinated with the idea\\nof loving a savage in love. When they parted it\\nwas, with her faith, that he would return to take\\nher to his lodge.\\nUp to this time the most friendly relations ex-\\nisted between the two races, but before returning\\nto Attinha, Oliviera had a serious difficulty with\\nthe chief of Charna, because the former had im-", "height": "3045", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nprudently boasted of his prowess in disparagement\\nof the latter; bloodshed must have resulted but for\\nthe timely interference of Teodoro at the risk of\\nhis own life. When this matter was adjusted the\\npacified chief went from one extreme to another\\nso far, indeed, as to offer one of his wives to\\nOliviera.\\nOn the arrival of the explorers, the company at\\nonce broke up the encampment on the Star of Mary\\nand took the march to the field of operations.\\nHiantuga acted again as guide, having been liber-\\nally rewarded for his services. In the valley the\\nSpanish quarters were temporarily located in the\\nvicinity of Wahu, in order to organize matters for\\nthe future welfare of the expedition. To Teodoro,\\nAndreo, and one or two others, was assigned\\nthe task of procuring means of subsistence\\nfrom the Indians or the chase, and an abundance\\nof provisions was cared for, and stored away for\\nfuture use. These men by their frequent inter-\\ncourse with the Indians, were soon masters of the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLOEIDA. 37\\nlanguage, and learned also the manners and cus-\\ntoms of the natives.\\nThe summer was spent in searching for gold\\namong the ravines, but with a success entirely dis-\\nproportioned to the expectations formed; the aver-\\nage amount obtained daily being not more than\\nseven reals per man. Don Carlos, disatisfied with\\nthe slow progress made so far, wandered inces-\\nsantly among the hills in search of indications\\nthat might lead to the discovery of richer deposits\\nof the precious metal. A certain restlessness, an\\nacerbity of temper, a careless dress, marked him as\\nhe wended his way with spade and mattock. His\\nmeals were neglected or hastily dispatched afc ir-\\nregular times, and very often he passed the night\\nwithout sleep.\\nIn this condition about the first of September,\\nguided as he stated by mineralogical appearances\\nand a dream, Don Carlos, unhappily pitched upon\\na spot Avhich included the sepulchres of the\\nIndians.\\nThis may be described as a small rounded hill.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 CHRONTCLES OF FLORIDA.\\na spur of the principal river range, having a\\ngradual descent to the river, and connected on the\\nother side to the adjoining eminence by a narrow\\nneck of land difficult of access from the sides. It\\nis of sufficient elevation to command a full view of\\nthe heights, in its immediate vicinity, but more\\nfrom the general features of the ground than from\\nits own isolation. This hill was covered by numer-\\nous heaps of stones, beneath which reposed the dead\\nof centuries. Passing over the natural causeway, one\\ncame to the adjoining hill which was of much\\nlarger extent, and there it was that the main min-\\ning operations were to be prosecuted and a furnace\\nbuilt. Desirous to secure a permanent location for\\nthe winter, the company readily assented to the\\nwishes of their leader.\\nA fort or block house was erected upon the spur\\nnear the point, where the causeway commences, and\\nso constructed, that a deep ditch cut quite across\\nits narrow part, interrupted all access in the direc-\\ntion of the river, which was about a mile off; the\\nonly passage left free was to and from the prin-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "CHRO N ICLES OF FLORIDA. 39\\ncipal hill. I omitted to mention, that about a month\\nor two previous, Oliviera, with the consent of Don\\nCarlos, had sent a messenger to Pensacola to one\\nPadre Riquez, urging him to bring on the enforce-\\nments, promised on receiving the news of their\\nsuccess.\\nThis Riquez, had been sent to Pensacola by the\\nSenor Obispo, on a mission. When solicited to join\\nthe expedition, his reply was My mission in the\\nnew world is not in quest of gold, but to extend\\nthe religion and monarchy of Spain. Should you\\nfind the natives tractable, write to me and I will\\njoin you with additional men and ammunition.\\nNo sooner had the fortification been completed,\\nthan it was visited by Santnoh, the Kongateh, a\\nsort of priest, juggler and physician, whose very\\nname filled the Indians with awe. He demanded\\nwith an air of conscious authority, Who had given\\nthe pale faces permission to build among the burial\\nplaces of his fathers or to dig within the sacred\\nprecincts Don Carlos coming forward replied,\\nthat as no objection had been made to his careful", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 CHKOI? ICLES OF FLOEIDA.\\nselection of a locality, he had chosen this spot, but\\nwould guard the tumuli of the dead from all dese-\\ncration. It soon appeared that no argument,\\napology or present could pacify Santnoh, or win his\\ngood will towards the Spaniards; after some impas-\\nsioned gesticulation and muttered imprecations,\\nthis meddlesome guest departed with malice and\\nrevenge pent up within his bosom.\\nMeantime, an Indian, employed in the excavations\\nof the hill, had found a nugget of gold which cir-\\ncumstance so flattering to the hopes of Don Carlos,\\ndeprived him of whatever remains of prudence he\\nmight have had. Though now urged to change\\nhis location by some who by recent observation\\namong the Indians saw the full danger of their\\nsituation, he gave heed to no remonstrance, but on\\nthe contrary, became the more infatuated. He\\nnow spoke hurriedly, urged the work in spite of\\nall obstacles, and behaved at times as if the very\\nhills should burst open at his bidding and disclose\\ntheir treasures. A large majority of the company\\nsided with Don Carlos, and all dissatisfaction", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "CHRON ICLES OF FLORIDA. 41\\nhitherto existing, was hushed up in the enthusiasm\\nof the moment.\\nWithin a few days the Indians who had been\\nemployed in the mines suddenly withdrew, as also\\ndid others in the vicinity of the fort, under the pre-\\ntext of a hunt, but in reality to obey the mandates\\nof the Kongateh. Alarmed by these indications,\\nDon Pacheco entreated his father to invite Augi-\\nchee to a conference, that impending difficulties\\nmight be avoided. This request was obtained at\\nlast solely on the score of interest to get back the\\nIndian miners, the want of whom had become\\nserious for the Spaniards themselves disliked to\\nwork. The mines in consequence were greatly\\nneglected. Insubordination was manifested, which\\nOliviera fostered to suit his views and thus rose to\\nsudden popularity. He would have made a capital\\nAthenian demagogue. He declared his scheme\\nfrom the first was to obtain a sufficient force to\\ncompel the natives to labor in the mines, as had\\nbeen done in other settlements. In the meantime", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nhe concurred with Don Pacheco, for a council, till\\nhe could mature his plan.\\nTeodoro and his colleagues having to visit At-\\ntinha in quest of certain articles and provisions,\\nwere also commissioned to make arrangements for\\na conference with the chiefs.\\nOn their arrival there, Augichee lay dangerously\\nill; indeed, by common report, his recovery was\\npast all hope. Yielding to the dictates of his\\nheart Teodoro requested permission to visit the\\nchief. Though Augichee had permitted no one to\\napproach him, except the family and Santnoh, yet\\nwhen it was whispered that one of the white chiefs\\nhad called to see him, the thought came that pos-\\nsibly the stranger was possessed of some means to\\nalleviate his sufferings, and Teodoro was granted\\nadmission.\\nThis hut or lodge of the chief (for he had\\nseveral) was constructed, as it were, expressly to\\nexclude the fresh air, having but one low entrance,\\nthrough which, one was constrained to crawl, after\\nhaving removed the raw hide that served as a door.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CHKOKICLES OF FLORIDA. 43\\nWithin was a warm, loathsome and offensive at-\\nmosphere, and on one side lay Augichee, stretched\\non a pallet of deer skin. The fitful glare of a de-\\ncaying fire in the center of the earthen floor,\\nflickered occasionally upon the face of the old man,\\nwhose features appeared almost obliterated, by the\\ninroads of the disease, erysipelas, under which he\\nsuffered.\\nIn a husky and tremulous voice, he entreated Teo-\\ndoro to give him the white man s remedy, For,\\nadded he, Santnoh had already sung the death\\nsong and gone on a journey. Impressed wjth\\nthe delicacy of his position, Teodoro, never-\\ntheless consented to prescribe as he had\\nacquired some knowledge of physic, both at\\nMontpelier and in his travels. Indeed, he\\nthought it a solemn duty to give assistance to the\\nneedy on all occasions. As a first step he ordered\\nthe chief to be conveyed to a more airy lodge, where\\nhe yielded him the most assiduous attention. The\\nnext night Augichee lay restless and delirious till\\nmidnight when the fever abated and he fell into a", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44: CHROJ^ ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\ncalm slumber. Towards morning he dreamed of\\nthe spirit land, but it was far diiferent from any\\nconception he had previously formed. Instead of\\nshadowy warriors engaged in the full career of the\\nchase, and ranging through ever verdant forests,\\na multitude of joyous people, radiant with light,\\nstood before him, among whom and not the least\\nconspicuous was Teodoro. As he gazed entranced\\nin admiration, a united shout overspread the\\nmighty host in which he heard his name pro-\\nnounced, and himself welcome as a brother.\\nThe next day the three Spaniards and family,\\nbeing gathered around Augichee in the lodge, he\\nexpressed the greatest gratitude to Teodoro and\\nrelated the dream. The conversation which ensued\\nlasted some time, and I can only relate a few topics.\\nThe chief spake to the following effect\\nBrother, the red man looks at the sky, he sees\\nthe lightning s flash, he hears the growl of the\\nthunder, tis all, he knows no more. I have found\\nmy white brother. His medicine is life. Santnoh\\nknows nothing. Augichee has often seen the trees", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "CHROKICLES OF FLORIDA. 45\\ncast their Jeaves, his sinews are stiff, his sight is\\ndim, yet his spirit wanders over the past, as a bird\\nreturns to the nest where he was fledged. Why-\\ndoes his heart sink within his breast Why is it\\nwhen warriors stoop before the great chief, he feels\\nlike a dog Tis this Angichee mourns his years\\nof crime he knows all is not right within his\\nbreast. Augichee hears the wailings of w^omen for\\ntheir untimely slain, he hears the dying warrior s\\ngroans, he sees the outstretched hands of supplica-\\nting mothers screening in vain their infants and\\nthemselves. Say it is war, still Augichee s hands\\nare red with blood. The blood of enemies is in his\\neyes now death looks at Augichee. How shall he\\nlook at the slain in the spirit land Can the Great\\nSpirit who is himself so good tolerate the evil\\nWhat says the white brother Santnoh knows\\nnothing the red men s Kongateh is a fool. When\\nthe chief had ceased, Teodoro scarcely able to re-\\nstrain his emotions, informed him that from their\\nfirst meeting he had not ceased to pray to the Great\\nSpirit to enlighten and bless Augichee and his", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\npeople. He then proceeded to instruct the family.\\nAt the conclusion, the chief begged for a few days\\nfor reflection, adding that he thought he had heard\\nthe truth for the first time.\\nA short time sufficed to put Augichee in a con-\\ndition to undertake the journey to Charna, whither\\nhe had notified the subordinate chiefs to meet in\\ncouncil. He was now well aware of the bitter\\nhatred of Santnoh for the Spaniards, and especially\\nfor Teodoro, whose skill had triumphed over that\\nof the Indian Kongateh, though Augichee hoped\\nto pacify the wrath of the latter, little knowing\\nhow unreasonable is the spirit of fanaticism.\\nThe chiefs train consisted of some thirty per-\\nsons, about one-half were women carrying provi-\\nsions and a few infants on their backs, while the\\nmen led the way in single file, unshackled save by\\ntheir arms. Having been unavoidedly detained on\\nthe route, they arrived at the pass of the Marihaez,\\nat nightfall and encamped a little further on the\\nother side. While most of the party sat about\\nthe fires, absorbed in a species of gambling so", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "CHRONTCLES OF FLORIDA. 47\\nstrong a passion of savage life, or regaling them-\\nselyes, Augichee approached the white men, and\\npointing to the path which led up the mount,\\nbeckoned them to follow him. The chief walked\\nfirmly before them up a serpentine and precipitous\\npath till the great ascent to the summit was\\nreached. This was so abrupt and difficult, that they\\nwere compelled to clamber up its sides for some\\ndistance. As they proceeded the trees became more\\nand more stunted and sparse, till the party emerged\\nupon the bald portion of the mountain, and a little\\ndistance upwards stood upon the summit. The\\nmoon had just risen. The view was grand, awful\\nand overpowering, well calculated to make one see\\nhis utter insignificance in the vast scale of creation.\\nThere they stood as on a rock, isolated as it were\\nin the midst of a boundless ocean, whose dark and\\nheavy billows heaved silently below to sink in\\nchasms, whose depths, night rendered more appal-\\nling, A calm, frosty night reigned on the heights.\\nWhen oppressed with care and in trouble, Augi-\\nchee had oftimes resorted to this spot to address", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nthe Great Spirit, thus in his estimation it had\\nbecame sacred, and thither he had thought proper\\nto hear the words of those who bore a message\\nfrom Him. Now, seated at the foot of Teodoro, he\\nsaid, Augichee has two ears for his brother. In\\nthe course of Teodoro s address he gave the follow-\\ning account of himself When I was a boy the\\nGreat Spirit gave me wisdom. Tlie people of my\\ncountry save my own kindred did not love that\\nwisdom. In exile we were driven from place ta\\nplace. At length, though I had been commissioned\\nto teach others the way of life, I was shut up\\nwithin a dark place, apart from mankind. Six and\\ntwenty moons had passed overhead, while I pined\\nthere but God was light to my soul and balm in\\nmy distress. At length he who brought my daily\\nfood, stopped once to listen to my prayer. He\\nheard me pray even for my enemies. This touched\\nhis heart. He found means to open my door, to\\ntalk with me in private and to kneel together in\\nprayer. We embraced, became brothers and found\\nmeans to escape. Thenceforth the wide world was-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 49\\nour field, all men our brethren. We resolved to\\ndo good wherever we could. We sought at first\\nsuch countries, whose language we understood. We\\ntravelled far, but men hated us, so soon as they\\nheard we had wisdom wisdom that would keep\\nthem from evil ways which they prized. We left\\nthem and passed on, till Andreo said, perhaps the\\nred men will hear us, and we were brought here.\\nTheir conference lasted until the gray of the\\nmorning contending emotions had alternately\\nswayed the bosom of the venerable chief, as he\\nfound the long cherished notions and educational\\nprejudices of his life vanish one by one under the\\ncalm manly pleadings of Teodoro, till the latter\\nrising up, pointed eastward as the dawn approached\\nand then spoke of the sublime transactions away\\nin Judea, and of that salvation which angels de-\\nsired to look into. There, said he, you will find\\nlove, light and life and there alone. Then Augi-\\nchee s features beamed with joy all doubts had\\nvanished forever, embracing his friends he ex-\\nclaimed. It is the truth It is the truth The\\n3", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\ngorgeous sun had sprung from behind the hills\\nnight had fled each dew drop glistened in the\\nlight as they went down the mountain rejoicing.\\nBefore they set out again they were overtaken by\\nSantnoh, who approached Teodoro and said: The\\nwhite medicine man is stronger than the red man,\\nha! The former replied that he was no Kongateh,\\nand left that honor entirely to Santnoh, to whom\\nit belonged, and that he had never intended to\\noffend the Kongateh of the Oherokees. At this\\npoint Santnoh appeared pacified. Ah, then said\\nhe, very good. Still on the way, he neglected\\nnothing to excite mistrust if not hatred against the\\nSpaniards. With all the Indians except a very few,\\nhe succeeded but too well, by frequent appeals to\\ntheir religious fears on account of the desecration\\nof the burial places. An accident soon after came\\nnear ridding the Spaniards of this troublesome\\nenemy, for while in advance at the descent of the\\nnext range Santnoh was attacked and overpow-\\nered by a couple of panthers (gatos de montes) and\\nmust have been destroyed but for the seasonable\\nhaste of Andres to his deliverance.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nPPKISED of the arrival of the chiefs at\\nCharna, Don Carlos, at the request of Oli-\\nviera, sent presents to all who possessed in-\\nfluence in the approaching council, Oliviera know-\\ning that Eusteka engrossed the affections of her\\nfather, declared his intentions in advance, to win\\nher heart if possible, but at all events to be so\\ndevoted in his attentions to her, as to gain her con-\\nfidence, which might lead to a knowledge of the\\nsecrets of the Indians. Don Carlos himself would\\nnot go to Charna at this time, because a few\\nminers having resumed operations in the course of\\nthe recently discovered gold deposits, became so\\ntransported with the notion of the wealth of the\\nmines now to be reached, that he solemnly resolved\\nnot to abandon the spot, but at the last extremity.\\nFeeling that the emergency might arise to force\\n61", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nthe natives to work the mines, he concluded so soon\\nas the conference should end, to send his son with\\nAndreo, to Achitta to hurry on the expected re-\\ninforcement.\\nSeveral days elapsed at Charna while the pre-\\nliminaries of council were being arranged, and this\\ngave scope to the intrigues of Oliviera. This in-\\ndividual was not devoid of personal advantages,\\nfrom past experience with others, he was confident\\nof soon making an impression on the chief s\\ndaughter even if it; should end by his win-\\nning a principality in the nation. Though\\nEusteka received his attentions with the secret\\npleasure, natural to her sex, she cautiously avoided\\nany encouragement, her policy appeared merely\\nto be to allow them, as of right, her due, and a\\nmatter of pure courtesy. Baffled, and piqued by\\nher coldness and reserve, he felt but the more\\nanxious to succeed. Nothing however could change\\nher general tone of conduct, nor would she wear\\nany ornaments he presented for her decoration.\\nMeanwhile the frequent visits of Oliviera gave rise", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "CHR02? ICLES OF FLORIDA. 53\\nto exaggerated reports. During all this time, Oli-\\nviera knew not, dreamed not, that danger lurked in\\nhis path that Eusteka was the affianced bride of\\nHiantuga the young war chief. When the latter\\ncame to Charna, having returned from a long hunt\\nnear the Kanosege, (Tuckasege) he was shocked\\nwith what appeared the perfidy of Eusteka and\\nthe success of his rival. Without inquiry, in the\\ndistraction of his mind, he turned away abruptly\\nand plunged back into the recesses of the forest.\\nTaco-taka s poetical version in the Cherokee style\\nmay be pardonably rendered as follows, (the nasal\\nimitation left out):\\nMaddened by jealousy, his first thought was revenge\\nviolent and instant.\\nWhen the sun sunk in the west, he saw in the sky but\\nthe hue of blood.\\nThe night came on, and yet he moves lonely through\\nthe dark avenues of the forest, cut off from every\\nhuman tie and chilled at the heart.\\nOnward he moves, the wind moans\\nIs it the voice of commiseration or in mockery\\nOnward he moves.\\nThe eyes of the night, the cold white stars look down\\nupon him is he lonesome now, since for good or\\nevil, those watchers follow him through the mazes\\nof the forest", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 CHROl^ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nOnward he goes, the sound of flowing waters met his ear.\\nFlow on thou stream forever Must he, too, move thus\\nOnward he moves, the morning star has crowned yon\\nmountain height there is hope now, hope of light\\nand life.\\nOnward he goes the gray streaks of morn appear, and\\nthe sounds of waking life are heard upon the hills.\\nOnce more he is connected with the world and with the\\nliving.\\nEarly in the morning Taco-taka and his sister on\\ntheir way to visit a near relative whose lodge was\\non the Hiattee within sight of the place a stream\\ndescends the river almost at right angles, there they\\nspied Hiantuga as he sat upon a fallen tree absorbed\\nin thought, while before him stood his javelin\\nstuck in the ground. On being hailed his surprise\\nwas great when he saw Eusteka. After awhile he\\nrose and walked besides her, going in the same di-\\nrection, his soul was full, his agitation extreme.\\nControlling himself he said The stranger stands\\nbetween us, you no longer behold Hiantuga. Old\\nfriends, she replied, are not to be forgotten, they\\nrise every morning to gladden our eyes, their pre-\\nsence is like the perfume of the purple flower\\n(Calycanthus) when dew is on the leaves. If so/^", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 55\\nhe resumed, why seek new faces Is not blood in\\nthe face of the red man Is there not warmth in his\\nhand The pale face is dear to Eusteka, let him\\nbeware Finding his wrath increasing, she spoke\\nsuddenly: Hiantuga, threaten not! The strangers\\ncame here in peace, let them remain here in peace.\\nAs for Unaik, (Teodoro) he is all gentleness\\nand noble far above our race. The Great\\nSpirit made him to excel, vv^hy shoukl we repine\\nHiantuga, with drooping lids, looked on the\\nground, but could not command the terrible\\nemotions at work within, for with a keen,\\npiercing glance towards her came words in\\nimpassioned utterance You love him I am de-\\nceived, betrayed Thus it is ever with your sex\\nlike that vine which has wound itself around the\\nfirst sapling within its reach. See! It has killed it I\\nand now, aspiring still higher, it clasps the trunk\\nof the sturdy oak such is woman s love Eusteka,.\\nwho little understood the cause of such a storm,\\nat length said, with unafiected sincerity: Eusteka\\nis to be the bride of Hiantuga she weds not above", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 CHROI^ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nher people. Then let not Hiantuga look upon his\\nEusteka in anger his smiles is her joy she lives\\nfor Hiantuga. She then told him of various inci-\\ndents that had happened since their last interview,\\nespecially how a pale face, Unaik, had saved her\\nfather s life, and had taught him many great and\\ngood things. She begged, Hiantuga would seek\\ninstruction of Unaik, who was a true friend of his,\\nand had cautioned her to behave with reserve\\ntowards the pale faces, which advice she had\\nstrictly followed. Oliviera was not mentioned even\\nonce by either, yet he, it was against whom a\\nscheme of private revenge had been formed, and\\nalthough Hiantuga listened with calmness and in-\\nterest to his beloved Eusteka, that scheme was\\nfinally merged and lost in the fixed determination\\nto destroy the entire expedition, save only one, for\\nthe sake of the tender petitioner. Thus, as it has\\nalways been in all regions and ages we find the\\nspirit of poetry, epic or amatory, in the man and in\\nthe woman, the object and the cause.\\nAlthougli Charna had been selected for the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 57\\nconference, Don Carlos could not be induced\\nto leave the ueigborhood of the mines; so\\nthe chief had, after some difficulty, reluct-\\nantly consented to meet near the fort, at\\na sort of ampitheater, on the principal river\\nhill in the rear. The foliage of the trees now ex-\\nhibited all the gaudiest tints so remarkable a\\nfeature of this region in Autumn. When the chiefs\\narrived they sat in semicircles on the ground, and\\nawaited in silence the coming of the Spaniards.\\nThen Don Carlos with his officers and such armed\\nmen as could be spared from guard, all dressed in\\nimposing military costumes, marched out to meet\\nthem by the sound of martial music, and bear-\\ning aloft the flag of Spain. Indeed every effort\\nwas made to gain the admiration and respect of the\\nnatives.\\nIt may be well to state here, Olivier a, ever full of\\ninventions had since his difficulty with the chief of\\nCharna, closely shaven his head and colored it with\\na red dye, over which he wore a flowing wig, for\\nthe purpose, he declared, to practice a tricK on the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 CHROKICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nIndians. When the procession reached the river\\nrange, the flag was planted and the conference\\nbegan. The chiefs on their part observed much\\nformality, but in a very quiet way. Oliviera who\\nstill acted as spokesman addressed them as follows\\nIt is with regret, chiefs, that we have heard of\\nunfriendly feelings existing on your part against our\\npeople, though we have smoked the pipe of peace\\ntogether because we have built our great lodge\\nhere, it is said, you are angry. Now we wish to\\nmaintain peace with our red brothers, and in that\\nview, promise never to violate the sepulchres, if we\\nare not molested in our present place. On the\\nother hand we cannot now remove without great\\nloss and hazard for this cause we desire all opposi-\\ntion against us to cease. Our brothers must know\\nthat in seeking peace we are not actuated by fear\\nfor though we are few in numbers, our power is\\ngreat and our prowess unquestionable.\\nHe then entered more minutely on the subject of\\nSpanish grandeur and imprudently hinted of\\nsuccour from abroad. When he ceased, a silence of", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 59\\nsome minutes elapsed, in the hope that Augichee, to\\nwhom all eyes were turned, would next speak. At\\nlength Stikititla, a chief of great shrewdness, arose\\nand asked How long did the pale faces intend to\\nstay in the country If for a short time, huts like\\nthose of the Indians or their own tents might have\\nanswered, but their great lodge was to stand for\\nmany summers. This question Oliviera endeavored\\nto evade by saying that the Spaniards were accus-\\ntomed to such dwellings. But Stikititla again put\\nthe question: How long do the pale faces intend\\nto stay? To this Oliviera merely remarked, he\\nhoped they were echulahe (all one) that is brothers\\nor friends.\\nSantnoh now sprung up not able to restrain his\\nfeelings, and as he assayed to speak blood spurted\\nfrom his nostrils: The bones of our fathers are\\nviolated or trodden under foot. Corn would not\\ngrow the chase would fail unless the pale faces\\nwere sent or driven away. They had corrupted the\\nyouth by employing them to dig the hills or to\\ncarry burdens. The nation would become ener-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60 CHKONICLES OF FLOKIDA.\\nvated, -would become women. It was evident when\\nhe stopped, he had checked himself in midway. It\\nwas plain that his views swayed a majority of the\\nchiefs, as manifested by their marks of approbation.\\nThe time had now arrived when Augichee could\\nno longer remain silent, so he stood up calmly\\nwhile expectations waited on him. He proposed\\nthat if the chiefs did not approve of the permanent\\noccupation of the locality by the Spaniards, justice\\ndemanded that they be allowed time enough to\\nmake a removal elsewhere without loss. He\\nthought some four or five moons at least ought to\\nbe granted to them. As the white friends had\\nbeen encouraged to make a settlement they should\\nnot now be turned out in the winter.\\nSantnoh opposed this proposition with warmth.\\nNot one moon, he exclaimed, shall be\\nyielded them, and if they will not go we\\nshall compel them. Compel them, indeed, said\\nOliviera with scorn, when I alone can eat up the\\nwhole tribe. Santnoh sprung backwards, poised his\\nwar club for action, and then with a sudden leap", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "CHKON ICLES OF FLOKIDA. 61\\nhad certainly slain Oliviera, had not Augichee and\\nTeodoro interposed. When the former called Sant-\\nnoh s attention to the solemn nature of a conneil,\\nhe replied aloud, Very well let this pass now but\\nI vow to have his scalp. Here take it now, ex-\\nclaimed Oliviera, while he threw his wig at the foot\\nof the Kongoteh, thus exposing his reddened scalp.\\nThe Indians were utterly appalled at the phenome-\\nnon indeed Santnoh fled some steps in utter\\namazement; nor was their emotion abated when\\nOliviera quickly picked up the wig and replaced it\\non his head with a shout of exultation. This and\\na demonstration of the effects of fire arms, so over-\\nawed the chiefs that a majority were soon obtained\\nto extend to the Spaniards the terms proposed by\\nAugichee as the middle ground of concession. By\\nthe advice of Teodoro, Don Carlos agreed to them\\nas the best terms that could be obtained at present.\\nA treaty was duly ratified by the terms of which\\nthe Spaniards were to remain in the present lo-\\ncality till the spring, when the leaves of the oak\\nshould be as large as a squirrel s ears, when they", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 CHROiaCLES OF FLORIDA.\\nsbould abandon the fort and then either enter into\\na new treaty by which a new location should be\\nassigned them or forever quit the country. This\\nlatter clause was added by Santnoh, in the hope\\nthat it would not be accepted as events immediately\\nproved. Don Carlos saw in this treaty an oppor-\\ntune means to postpone his difficulties, that by\\nbribes and duplicity he might eventually obtain\\nhis own terms, and be in a position before spring\\nto dictate to the refractory natives.\\nTaken entirely off their guard by what they had\\nwitnessed and the unexpected decision of the ma-\\njority, Santnoh and his immediate associates, after\\nthe preliminaries had been settled, preserved a\\nsolemn silence, till the calumet of peace was offered\\naround, when they arose and marched off the\\nground without so much as looking behind. Thus\\ntroubles were brewing against the expedition that\\nrendered efficient vigilance and measures for pro-\\ntection necessary.\\nWhen once more congregated within the fort, the\\ncompany deliberated upon the present aspect of", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 63\\naffairs, and the contingencies that might arise.\\nOliviera began by saying that the interval now\\nobtained was only to be employed in preparation for\\nhostilities and in expectation of reinforcement. A\\ncherished object in the meantime was to create dis-\\nsentions among the Indians, and to form a party\\nin alliance with the expedition. The good will of\\nsome had already been won, by supplies of aqua-\\ndiente and the female portion was much inclined to\\nbe friendly with the whites, as it oftimes happens\\namong inferior races. Any advice to abandon the\\nfort or loose the fruits of their operations was to be\\ndenounced at once as cowardly, unless indeed this\\nadvice was based upon the certainty of better pros-\\npects elsewhere. But having secured an ample\\nsupply of provisions against a siege to keep up this\\nsupply for the future, it will be necessary to retain\\nprisoners of influence as hostages. He proposed\\nfor his part to decoy and entrap the chiefs\\ndaughter, because the intimacy he had attempted\\nto maintain with her, might afford reasonable\\ngrounds to show that she had taken her abode at", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 CHROiNICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nthe fort through loye and her own choice, not\\nviolence others might imitate his example. Any\\nhostility on the part of the Indians would prove\\nvain and futile, since the fort was well supplied\\nwith arms and ammunition. Before all he hoped\\nto make it appear, that he knew how to combat the\\nsavages, having heretofore defeated more than half\\na dozen in the open field. To all this Don Carlos\\nyelded his hearty support.\\nWhen Teodoro would introduce a few words of\\nentreaty and advice, Oliviera, in a rough and harsh\\nmanner, interrupted him, saying Comrades be\\ncareful how you hearken to this man, for I have\\ngood reason to suspect him to be in league with\\nthe Indians. Heard you not with what reverence\\nhe was styled Unaik the Kongateh Heard you\\nnot how earnestly he pleaded for Augichee s terms\\nof the treaty Extending his arms to address\\nthe company, the accused was checked by hisses\\nand groans, which did not cease till Don Pacheco\\ninterceded, or rather interposed, an authority\\nrarely disputed. Comparative order being intro-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "CHRON ICLES OF FLORIDA. 65\\nduced, Teodoro said By your leave, Don Carlos,\\nI am permitted to defend myself. I call upon\\nevery man here to testify whether I have done him\\nwrong, or whether (which I boast not) I have ever\\nministered to the wants of the sick and necessitous.\\nTo you, Don Carlos, I especially appeal. Have I\\nnot with fidelity and economy used the means\\nplaced in my hands for the purchase of provisions\\nThat I have acquired the respect and confidence of\\nthe natives, bespeaks not an intriguing spirit, but\\none actuated with a sense of justice and love to\\nman. That I advised the treaty was to spare the\\neflfusion of blood to spare which my voice shall\\never be heard, though it brings destruction on my\\nhead. I essayed to speak awhile ago in the cause of\\njustice, in the cause of innocence, but I was silenced.\\nBy an examination of your stores you will find\\nprovisions collected there for several months, at\\nleast to last through the winter. This is the\\nwork of myself and my colleagues without as-\\nsistance or without remuneration. If, after this", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nexhibit, you are dissatisfied with me, you will\\nplease give me permission to accompany Don\\nPacheco to Achitta. Tis all I ask.\\nAfter he had finished, Andreo and another friend\\nasked leave to go with him. Hereupon Don Carlos,\\nalarmed lest a defection should extend further and\\nothers for various causes should break ofi from the\\nexpedition, and perhaps imperil its success, after\\na brief conference with Oliviera, brought about a\\nreconciliation, which was as false on one side as\\nit was sincere on the other.\\nOn the following day Don Pacheco, with Andreo\\nalone, was sent out to meet the expected reinforce-\\nment and conduct it by the nearest route*\\nTeodora still continued to exchange trinkets and\\ncommodities for maize and other provisions, though\\nopportunities for barter became fewer every day.\\nThree other persson were detailed to hunt and\\ncure venison and other game.\\nNow a strange mutation took place in the mind\\nof Don Carlos. As he had been the slave of\\npleasure, then of gold, he finally became that of", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 67\\nambition and military glory. Already, in his esti-\\nmation, lie was destined to become the Cortes of\\nCatengema. Oliviera, who was U7i lionibre politico^ (a\\npolitician) hailed this change with pleasure, hoping\\nto take the rule when the affairs of the expedi-\\ntion should become involved. Arms were order-\\ned to be distributed to each man, a strict military\\ndiscipline was instituted sentries were regularly\\nposted and the mines abandoned for the winter.\\nThe ammunition had been so carefully husbanded\\nthat little less remained on hand than the quantity\\nbrought. A piece of Artillery or swivel {ima jneza\\nde artiUeria, un pedrero) was placed over the gate\\nto command the entrance and causeway.\\nAfter the council had adjourned, Santnoh sought\\nwith eagerness for the young war chief, but he had\\nhurried on with all expedition homewards. While\\non this quest the medicine-man accosted Taco-taka^\\nwho was engaged in spearing fish on the river.\\nWell met, exclaimed Santnoh, I looked for one\\nand behold the other; now follow me to a spot\\nthat has no ear. Santnoh s spirit fills his bosom.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nnigh to bursting. At the base of an overhanging\\nrock they sat on the ground opposite to each other.\\nSantnoh fixed a sad gaze on Taco-taka for a few\\nminutes in profound silence. Wearied, at length\\nthe latter asked, What means the cloud on Sant-\\nnoh s face Then followed from the chief a sort\\nof chant in measured cadences, impossible to be\\ncorrectly rendered here, but scarcely to be omitted\\naltogether\\nWhen Augichee spurned his crippled son,\\nBecause no warrior he might be,\\nWho helped his feeble steps among the hills\\nSantnoh\\nWhen the cruel father called him *dog,\\nWho hugged him like a petted fawn\\nAnd taught the way to fame and power\\nSantnoh\\nWho gloried more, when with youthful face\\nTaco-taka sat among the wise\\nFor honors won, unsurpassed in council\\nSantnoh\\nWho would say Be not Taco-taka\\nBut now Tetishko, the kongateh,\\nAnd ever wear this wampum belt for me\\nSantnoh\\nMy heart feels big towards Santnoh, replied", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "CHROl^ICLES OF FLORIDA. 69\\nTaco-fcaka with deep emotion, I call upon the\\nGreat Spirit to guide him. Oh, Santnoh What\\nis the wisdom we have known? Nothing! The\\ntrue wisdom I have received from the white Kon-\\ngateh. Go to him, also, and learn what it is to\\nlive. Taco-taka can never be a Kongateh.\\nThis he said with the best of feelings, then what\\nwas his surprise to see Santnoh leap upwards and\\nstare at him with horrified aspect.\\nDoes my eye prove false, he cried, is this my\\nbosom s child? Does the storm enter my ears?\\nMy child gone to the foe The stars have indeed\\nvanished before the rising sun, and Santnoh falls\\nat the feet of Unaik. Down sinks his honors and\\nhis name, in clouds and darkness, is borne by the\\nwinds away. Spirits of departed warriors, and\\nthou, the shadowy Kongateh of my dreams, howl\\nthe song on the hills afar, as Santnoh leaves the\\nworld. But, no I The time has not yet come\\nSantnoh has friends though Taco-taka be lost.\\nSantnoh will yet save his people. I will, in life,\\nstay the downfall of the Cherokees. Now let war", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\ncome, leb our foes be destroyed ere others come, and\\nour own mountain home is free\\nHe then quickly returned to the forest deter-\\nmined once more to seek Hiantuga, who he learned\\nhad gone back to his lodge on the Tuckasege but\\npursuing a direct route scarcely heeding obstacles.\\nSantnoh arrived there in advance of the war-\\nchief. Hiantuga had traveled on in deep thought\\nresolved upon hostilities of some sort against the\\npale faces. At this interview, both chiefs were in\\nfull accord; but to urge Hiantuga to instant action,\\nSantnoh related the tradition of an ancient sage,\\nwho had predicted that the red man for their\\nbloody ways, should in time be driven away before\\nthe pale faces, that the water courses should shrink\\nand the hills be cut down a saying about which\\nhe had often pondered without coming to a solu-\\ntion until lately when the full meaning suddenly\\nflashed upon him. Would Hiantuga live to see the\\nevil day That indignant chief drew himself up\\nto his stature and after a deep inspiration said:\\nHiantuga can indeed fall, but who shall drive him", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 71\\naway The conversation then turned upon the fire-\\narms of the Spaniards, termed by the natives, the\\nlittle thunders, and about the self-scalping feat of\\nOliviera. After further deliberations they came to\\nthe conclusion that with superior numbers, re-\\nsources and stratagem, the en^my would soon be\\noverpowered and for the first time Santnoh smiled\\nfor joy. By fostering hatred for the Spaniards,\\nand harping upon the desecration of the sepul-\\nchres, they began in their present vicinity to or-\\nganize a powerful league among the chiefs. Soon\\nthey sent abroad messengers to chiefs, more remote\\nand not under the immediate influence of Augi-\\nchee. But their main desire was to obtain the con-\\ncurrence of the vaunted chief Hilnota, who re-\\nsided near the Creek country, and for this purpose\\nthey sent Stikititla. As weeks must have inter-\\nvened before he could join them with his braves\\nand confederate chiefs, they determined to advance\\nat once towards Charna and hold a secret war\\ncouncil at the great town house near that place.\\nThey assembled around them as they went some of", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nthe most turbulent of the tribe over whom they\\nheld a sway these after due instructions were sent\\nout with the war token, and with as much secrecy\\nas possible to the various townships scattered with-\\nin the space of six days journey, Augichee and\\nthose who could not be influenced by these secret\\nemisaries were passed over by strict instructions\\nin the general summons. But however secret these\\nmovements were, some notices of them did not fail\\nto reach Augichee and the Spaniards. Oliviera\\nhad received early information through the nephew\\nof Stikititla, whose services he had bought by oc-\\ncasional supplies of aquadiente. Full of self im-\\nportance, full of the brags he so frequently made,\\nhe expressed a resolution to repair to the council in\\na disguise that would enable him to mix unob-\\nserved in the crowd during the night. Having\\nmade the banter too openly, calmer reflections and\\nappeals came too late to admit of an abandonment\\nof so dangerous an enterprise.\\nThe council house was a large conical edifice,\\nbuilt of poles and bark on a slightly elevated hill", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 73\\na very few leagues from Oharna, a small babbling\\nrivulet flowed at the base, while around in a sort\\nof a semicircle arose undulating heights covered\\nwith timber. A more secluded spot could scarcely\\nbe imagined. As the guide led the way, Oliviera\\nfollowed Avith an indescribable dread of discovery\\nor treabhery, using great circumspection. Several\\ntimes he was on the point of retreating, but each\\ntime the dread of pursuit and capture deterred him,\\nfor he knew that many Indians were still on the\\nway to the council. As he drew near, the\\nscene presented to his view was not at all calcu-\\nlated to reassure his spirits. A chill star-lit sky\\nreigned on high, from whence a thin vapor, more\\nperceptible to the feelings than to the sight, had\\nsettled towards the earth, rendering the outlines of\\nobjects less defined. Before him rose in the dark\\na shapeless mass, around which he saw a number\\nof indistinct forms in motion, or in stationary^\\ngroups, all reminding one more of the abode of dis-\\nembodied spirits than of aught earthly. Oliviera s;\\nfears were overcome at last by the antagonistic prin-\\n4", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "*^4: CHROi^ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nciples of sliame and prudence so worming his way\\nthrough the motley crowd in front of the door, he\\nreached it just as the council fire was about to be\\nkindled in the center of the interior; and when this\\nwas done the horrors of the moment were but in-\\ncreased. The light made the darkness of the\\nsmoked interior the more apparent, while it re-\\nvealed the gi im savages, ranged around in all the\\nappalling disfigurements of their warlike and un-\\ncouth ornaments.\\nShortly after Augichee arrived. He had been\\napprized of the movement late in the day before\\nand had travelled hither with all haste. There\\nwas no change from his ordinary dress the bear-\\nskin still hung down his back and from beneath it\\ngleamed a bright hatchet, affixed to his belt, the\\nonly weapon he wore. This unexpected appear-\\nance threw the ringleaders into some consternation,\\nbut no sooner had he taken his seat, than Santnoh\\narose and said: Let the aged speak. At this\\nAugichee, rising slowly, said\\nWarriors But yesterday, when the sun had", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "CHROJ^ICLES OF FLORIDA. 75\\nsunk beneath the hills, I was in the wigwam smok-\\ning the calumet of peace, when suddenly screamed\\naloft the eagle of war. The cry went through all\\nthe land. The aged could not rest his limbs.\\nThat cry drove sleep away. Through the dark\\nnight I followed the sounds of war. Here stands\\nAugichee. This is the war council. A war against\\nwhom A handful of peaceful men who came\\nhere to dig the earth for stones. Fallen, fallen are\\nthe Cherokees if they speak with forked tongues\\nand regard not the clasping of hands nor the force\\nof treaties. Shall the Cherokee kill his brothers\\nAugichee wars not against the pale faces. War-\\nriors, I have said.\\nThe next that spoke was Hiantuga, bold, daring,\\nfull of fire Tis not the young who speaks, tis\\nmy father s spirit that gives me words. The pale\\nfaces are treacherous. Tis they who speak with\\nforked tongues. Weak are they now, so was once\\nthe oak. Peaceful will they be so long as they are\\nweak. Take my advice, chiefs, attack them now.\\nThe spark that falls among the dry leaves may be", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\neasily put out with the foot, neglect it and soon the\\nmountains are involved in a general conflagration.\\nDrive the pale faces away or let them die ere they\\novershadow the red man.\\nAugichee now rose again. Somewhat excited,\\nbut soon subduing his emotion, he proceeded with\\ncalmness\\nChiefs and warriors, when the pale faces came\\nthey asked for leave to dig among the stones of the\\nhills we said dig. We said the Great Spirit sent\\nthe rain and gave the game eat and drink with\\nus. We smoked the calumet of peace and, as the\\nsmoke went up, Augichee said who knows but\\nthese men may bring good to the Oherokees. Aug-\\nichee s heart felt big towards them. Sickness\\ncame. Santnoh said, I must go to the spirit land\\nand he sung the death song. Then Unaik, sent by\\nthe Master of Life, raised me up and taught me\\nwisdom. Food is necessary for man, but far more\\nthat wisdom. The wisdom of the red man is dark-\\nness and thunder.\\nSantnoh hastily sprung up and interrupted", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 77\\nhim thus Fallen is the great chief of\\nthe Oherokees. He speaks words that should cause\\neach warrior to raise his tomahawk and utter the\\nwar whoop. The Great Spirit of the Oherokees,\\nthe wisdom of our ancestors whose bones lie mould-\\nering and polluted on our hills are they to yield\\nto the pale faces Has Augichee turned traitor\\nHas he lost the red blood in his age? Let him\\nfear the curse of the evil-eye or the blast from the\\nspirit land. Warriors, Augichee leads us no more\\non the war-path. Warriors, speak if the red blood\\nstill warms your hearts.\\nThen a savage yell began within the lodge, and\\ncaught up by those without, made the hills re-\\nsound and re-echo with that most fearful note, the\\nwar whoop. This told Augichee, too plainly, that\\nfor the first time in his long career he was\\nabandoned by his people. The thoughts of de-\\nparted greatness and a mixed emotion of indigna-\\ntion and boiling wrath rose within him. Deprived\\nof reason for a time he advanced toward Santnoh\\nwith the uplifted hatchet, exclaimiug: Then the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "78 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nwar begins here. Yontliful vigor and manly\\nstrength seemed to pervade his form, but the next\\nmoment the hatchet dropped from his nerveless\\ngrasp as if paralyzed, and he stood like a statue\\nwith his eyes turned upwards.\\nThe wiley Santnoh, pointing at him, uttered\\nthese words with a hissing sound: The curse of\\nthe evil one upon him who supports our enemies.\\nAll eyes were ri vetted upon the aged chief in the\\nbelief he was under a supernatural spell, which\\nbelief estranged even his nearest friends. But he\\nresumed a look of cool and calm composure, saying\\nat the same time: Augichee s hands shall never\\nmore be stained with blood. He then walked out\\nof the council, and from this time he must be\\nconsidered as virtually deposed. The council then\\nresolved to massacre the Spaniards to a man, lest\\nsome might escape to return on a future day with\\nforces to take vengeance on the Oherokees. But\\none voice was raised in mercy, and but for one man\\nHiantuga pleaded for Unaik all in vain, till\\nSantnoh reluctantly yielded the point, fearing to", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLOEIDA. 79\\nalienate the young war chief. As the Indians ex-\\npectecl considerable resistance to their penetrating-\\nwithin the fort, the time for action was put off for\\none moon to allow a full collection of forces and\\nthe arrival of Hilnota. They then proclaimed\\ndeath to any one who should inform the Spaniards\\nof this meeting and that he should also bear the\\ncurse of the medicine man.\\nOliviera had escaped detection so far. Having\\nlearned enough of the purpose and aim of the\\ncouncil, he descended the hill with stealthy steps\\nto take the route to Charna, where some comrades\\nwere waiting at an appointed spot, hoping to hurry\\non without stopping to the fort. It was well he\\nhad left so early, for the wild orgies or ceremonies\\nof the savages attained their height soon after-\\nwards, and he continued to hear those dismal\\nAvhoops resounding through the forest for some\\ndistance as he proceeded. He was unaware, that\\njust then it was the custom of warriors to scatter\\nthemselves around and inspect the ground; and\\nthus the footprints of a white man were detected.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nOn turning round, wliile hurrying on he saw, dis-\\nmayed, two or three torchlights fast appoaching\\non his tracks. He examined his pistols, as a last\\nresource, then hastened on the way, which in the\\ntrepidation of the moment he unfortunately\\nmissed by winding at the base of a hill. The\\nfurther he pressed the more he diverged from\\nthe right path. After some time so spent, the\\nroute was regained towards Charna. Meanwhile,\\nthe warwhoops still continued in the distance,\\nthough the torches were no longer seen; the\\npresumption was, the Indians had gone back.\\nSantnoh was about to quit also, when his prac-\\nticed ear detected footsteps, which he knew to be those\\nof a white man, and he hid himself among some\\nbushes. The sharp twang of a bow, a pang in the\\nshoulder arrested Oliviera. His pistols were ready,\\nbut where to direct the shot he knew not, so throw-\\ning himself on the ground, as if mortally wounded,\\nhe awaited the appearance of the enemy, in which\\nevent, he was not deceived. He shot at Santnoh\\ntwice, in rapid succession but without effect, for", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "CHROl^ICLES OF FLORIDA. 81\\nOliviera tliougli expert with the knife, was a bad\\nmarksman with firearms. The next moment\\nSantnoh brandished a war club oyer Oliviera\\nready to slay him.\\nTeodoro, who w^as among the men posted near\\nCharna, becoming uneasy about the safety of\\nOliviera, went out to meet him on his return.\\nHe had reached the place about the same time,\\nwhen the lights caused him to take shelter in\\nthe bushes. The discharge of pistols revealed what\\nwas going on. He rushed forward regardless of\\nconsequences. Oliviera had been disabled by a\\nblow, and the Indian was about to give the\\nfinishing stroke, when he was suddenly dis-\\narmed and overpowered. Santnoh s strength forsook\\nhim when he recognized Teodoro, for he saw an\\nevil augury for the future, the more that he was\\nprostrate and in the power of the white Kongateh.\\nHe groaned out saying, Will Unaik slay\\nSantnoh No! answered Teodoro, in a voice of\\nthunder, Flee and learn to be merciful to a fallen\\nfoe. On finding himself released, Santnoh imme-\\ndiately fled, pursued by supernatural terrors.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nEor haying witnessed his humiliation, for having\\nallowed the enemy to escape, Oliviera hated Teo-\\ndoro the more, even while with the aid indispensa-\\nble to him in his crippled condition, he was sup-\\nported till he should meet the guard near Charna\\n:.and reach the fort in safety.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV,\\n^^N the next day, at a sort of a council held\\nat the fort, Oliviera blazed forth the night\\nadventure and claimed the credit of daring\\nvalor. When he spoke of the combat with Sant-\\nnoh it was in the most exaggerated terms, taking\\ncare to apply the harshest epithets to Teodoro, who\\nrefused to kill an unarmed man. He maintained\\nthat he could, though disabled, have easily killed\\nhis opponent but for the unseasonable interference\\nof Teodoro.\\nHe declared the prospects of the expedition very\\nthreatning, but he feared not to contemplate them,\\nbecause he felt the Spaniards must come out\\nvictorious in the strife. In conclusion he urged\\nthe immediate seizure of hostages, as had been\\nbefore determined, but with the additional inten-\\ntion that, should it become necessary, the Indian\\ncode of blood for blood might be turned against\\n83", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nthem. He now asked Teodoro if he could defend\\nhis conduct before the company, and further, what\\nwas his adyice in the emergency. To which the\\nlatter replied Don Carlos and Senors If it is a\\ncrime to spare a powerless man, then I am guilty,\\nI plead no more. I was not brought up to the\\nprofession of arms. Senors, I am asked for advice.\\nPermit me to say that a pacific policy towards the\\nIndians is best under all circumstances. To main-\\ntain peace we must be just. It is contemplated to\\nseize Eusteka and others as hostages. What would\\nresult from the capture of Eusteka but the aliena-\\ntion of one of our most valued and tried friends\\nher father Would not the Indians be the more\\nincensed would they not endeavor to recapture\\nthe hostages or retaliate Is it not wiser I should\\nsay more prudent to yield in some degree at least\\nto their prejudices This might be done without\\ndetriment to the expedition, by commencing in\\ngood faith to build another fort on the opposite\\nhill, which, while it commands the approach to the\\nmines, would be beyond the precincts of the burial", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 85\\nground. If you, Senors, should so decide, no\\ndoubt amicable relations may be established. In\\nconclusion, we are here as strangers and need to\\nconciliate the favor of the red man that provisions\\nmay be supplied to us.\\nThese views not being in accord with the lieu-\\ntenant, he again charged Teodoro, as in league\\nwith the enemy, as proved by many evidences of a\\nmutual understanding between them. Having\\nsaid this, Oliviera assumed airs of great authority,\\nand resorted to threatning language. Though\\nsomewhat nettled at the arrogance of this man,\\nDon Carlos could not well forego his services, nor\\nresist his popularity in the expedition. In fact,\\nwithout his knowledge, he was a mere tool in the\\nhands of this unscrupulous ofiicer. Preparations\\nwere therefore made to seize Eusteka and such\\nothers as might be deemed prudent.\\nJust at this juncture as if to facilitate this\\nscheme, Augichee, with his family, came to\\nWahu to receive those consolations in his\\ndistress which his soul yearned to obtain of", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 CHRONICLES OF FLOEIDA.\\nUnaik, his friend. Abandoned by his people,\\ndegraded, shorn of all influence, now with\\nhis purpose and aim in life so truly changed, he\\nneeded encouragement and support. The night\\nwas dark and drizzly, when Teodoro, who had been\\ninformed of the chiefs desire, started to visit him.\\nIt was a matter of no little difficulty to avoid the\\nvigilance of Indian scouts, who were always prowl-\\ning about the vicinity. He had succeeded well till\\nalmost in Wahu, but when near the place, Hian-\\ntuga tracked him as if by instinct, till he met\\nAugichee in front of a lodge that stood apart from\\nthe rest. They saluted each other with joy, in the\\nIndian mode, which is by grasping the elbows of\\neach other. The old chief said he had lost all\\npower to serve his brother, for bad men ruled in\\nthe council of the Cherokees. As you for told,\\nmy trials have indeed come, but I will hold on in\\nthe path I have chosen.\\nM7igu7i pantano se encitentra en el eamino,^^ said\\nTeodoro, in Castilian. You will meet with no\\nquagmire on the road, then he testified supreme", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "CHROiTICLES OF FLORIDA. 87\\njoy in finding him the same mind. Stay not, he\\nentreated, but go back with Eusteka and Taco-taka\\nwithout delay. Go at once and before dawn.\\nThese are the words of a friend. On his part\\nAugichee warned Teodoro to keep within the fort\\nafter the present night. It was evident neither\\ncould divulge more to the other, and so far the\\nduties of friendship had been observed. Calling\\nthe family around them, after brief religious exer-\\ncises, Teodoro declared that he had a presentment,\\nthat his life on earth was about to close, but did not\\nfeel a sorrow on that account, but rather rejoiced.\\nIn departing, he thanked the Great Spirit that he\\nhad been honored to testify the truth, even to suffer\\nin proof of his faith. Then said the chief, Au-\\ngichee s life is almost spent. He wishes to be\\nburied beside his brother. After a few more\\nwords, they parted to meet under far different cir-\\ncumstances.\\nImmediately afterwards the chief heard footsteps,\\nand Hiantuga soon appeared before him. ^Yhen\\nthe young warrior had seen an unknown person", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88 CHRONICLES OF PLORIDA.\\ntake the path to the lodge, haunted by suspicions\\nof foul play, he followed to a crevice where he\\ncould easily see and hear what was going on. His\\nwords now were, When the man stood before you\\nmy eye was upon my arrow and upon him. I then\\nheard all, I knew Unaik. He is a good man.\\nHiantuga will watch over him. Then whistling\\nthe note of a bird, two Indians came to meet him,\\nwhom he sent to follow the stranger to the fort,\\nand keep him from danger. The family, with\\nHiantuga, then decided to start in the early dawn\\nfor Attinka, where the young war chief should re-\\nceive his bride. With these illusory plans they\\nparted for the night.\\nOne of the Indians sent to protect Teodoro, was\\nthe spy employed on a former occasion by Oliviera,\\nwho thought it was that person he was now follow-\\ning. Teodoro was about half way on his return,\\nwhen he was surprised to meet Oliviera and a party\\ngoing to entrap Eusteka. They pressed him to\\nturn back, but he positively refused. In the mean-\\ntime, an Indian boldly came, who declared to", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "CHROl^ICLES OF FLORIDA. 89\\nOliviera, that he had been following him, since he\\nhad parted with Angichee. Startled at such an\\nannouncement, Oliviera took the Indian aside, and\\nafter vigorous questions, came to the conclusion\\nthat Teodoro held secret intelligence, not only with\\nAugichee, but with the war chief. He then gave\\norders to arrest and bind the traitor who had given\\nwarning to Augichee. A squad was detailed to\\nconduct the prisoner, with the Indian, within the\\nfort.\\nIn the dark of the morning, a single Spaniard\\ncalled at the entrance of Augichee s lodge, when\\nall were plunged in the soundest morning sleep.\\nHe stated that Teodoro had despatched him to con-\\nduct Eusteka and Taco-taka out of harm s way im-\\nmediately. The unsuspecting old man hurried his\\nson and daughter, with directions they should go\\nwith the stranger to Attinha, whilst he got ready\\nto follow with Hiantuga. Thus they were led into\\nthe very midst of the Spanish party and thence to\\nthe block house, when the spy was dismissed under\\npledges with presents. An Indian scout who", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nwitnessed some of these transactions near the fort,\\nbrought word to Hiantuga. His fury knew no\\nbounds. Driven by its violence he hurried to\\nAugichee, to organize a force sufficient to sweep\\nthe pale faces from the earth.\\nBut the old man received the intelligence with\\nhis head bowed down in calm resignation, little in\\nunison with the burning wrath of the young war\\nchief.\\nChiusteh s grief overwhelmed her her severest\\ntrial had come. The villagers crowded to the\\nlodge, and as they heard of the capture, each\\nvowed vengeance.\\nThe old chief now rose in solemn grandeur,\\nsoftened however by tenderness for his afflicted\\nwife, whom he approached. Chiusteh, he said,\\nwe have offended the Great Spirit. He has par-\\ndoned us. Remember, after sorrows here, we shall\\nall meet again in the happy land. Sorrow is but\\nfor time ^joy lasts forever. Why mourn for Taco-\\ntaka; why mourn for Eusteka Behold, the Great\\nSpirit watches over them, loves them more than we", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.. 91\\ncan. At this, Chiiisteli breathed forth these-\\nwords Eorgiye a woman true, our children are\\nsafe.\\nThen suddenly seizing Hiantuga by the hand,,\\nAugichee said: *Be assured, Eusteka loves Hian-\\ntuga she will do what is right she will be de-\\nlivered. Tell me, you who are a Skiagusteh, a\\nmaster spirit among the Oherokees, are you not\\nweary with this world of sorrow and violence\\nHiantuga bit his lips, but made no reply.\\nIn consequence of this seizure, the Indians re-\\ndoubled their vigilance and increased their prepara-\\ntions for a vigorous attack. Erom this time no\\nSpaniard dare leave the immediate vicinity of the\\nfort, except in well armed squads. Within two or\\nthree days, notwithstanding the care they had taken\\nof the prisoners, Taco-taka had escaped and re-\\njoined his friends.\\nShortly after this, matters were brought to a\\ncrisis sooner than was anticipated, and before the-\\narrival of the redoubtable chief, Hilnota. It\\nhappened on this wise. On an excessively cold", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nnight, while a severe snow storm, accompanied with\\nsleet, prevailed outdoors, the inmates of the fort\\nwere surprised to hear a plaintive female voice,\\nivhose melancholy tones arose from below in the\\nintervals or lulls of the fitful north wind. The\\nwords were Cherokee, and every now and then the\\nburthens which could be distinguished from the\\nrest, rang thus\\nThe cold wind blasts the early flower,\\nWhite man pity the lonely maiden.\\nPerhaps these lines, which an amateur poet com-\\nposed afterwards, may serve as a version.\\n[The English version is still worse, but here\\nit is]\\nUntimely love, misplaced love,\\nA spark that falls upon the snow,\\nThe arrow that finds the lonely dove,\\nBreasting on high the northern wind.\\nAt one fell swoop she dropped below.\\nTo icy death her form resigned.\\nThe cold winds rush from yonder heaven,\\nWhite man, pity the lonely maiden.\\nUntimely love, misplaced love,\\nA flower that opes in winter, when\\nBalmy breeze from the sun above\\nDeceitful breathes of hope and joy,", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 9$\\nAnd birds begin to sing again,\\nWhen sudden cold and frost destroy.\\nThe cold wind blasts the early flower,\\nWhite man, pity the lonely rover.\\nUntimely love, misplaced love,\\nHow burns the cold How blows the wind\\nThe limbs, benumbed, refuse to move,\\nLife flutters only at the heart.\\nNow sleep descends the sense to bind,\\nSweet sleep that never will desert.\\nThe cold wind blows, why let it then,\\nForever sleeps the lonely maiden.\\nAs the possibility of a stratagem was feared, no\\none ventured out the sounds gradually became\\nfainter and died in a moan, then the storm reigned\\nalone.\\nAt dawn, Pacheco returned with the expected\\nreinforcements. On rounding the hill to the\\nascent he discovered the body of an Indian female,\\nlying prone on the snow. He turned the body-\\nover. It was Omuna dead Pacheco fell sense-\\nless. On recovery, he could scarcely be separated\\nfrom her lifeless remains. Frequently he uttered r\\n0h, had we lived separate from all the world\\nbesides I", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": ".94 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nA belief prevailed that Omuna, unable to endnre\\nthe long absence of Don Pacheco, fearing he was\\nsick, and becoming distracted on this account, came\\ntowards the fort to seek information, and was on\\nthe way and without shelter when the storm over-\\ntook her. We shall soon see what influence her\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0death had on the fate of the expedition.\\nWhen Don Pacheco had embraced his father, he\\ngave orders for the decent burial of Omuna, whose\\ncharacter he publicly pronounced above suspicion\\nhe then retired to a private portion of the fort to\\nindulge in the intensity of his grief.\\nThe reinforcement, now arrived, consisted of\\n-about thirty-six men, one of whom, the Padre Eiquez,\\nwas a travelling ecclesiastic, ascetic and severe\\n.solely through educational influences, for otherwise\\nhe would have proved a man of generous impulses.\\nHis own native city of Seville was justly shocked\\n;at the mere relation of the bloody sacrifices of\\nthe Mexican priesthood, but would hail with holy\\n^eal an auto-da-fe.\\nDon Pacheco found them near Cowetta. On en-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "CHKONICLES OF FLOKIDA. 95\\ntering the Cherokee country they had been threat-\\nened with opposition, but by marching mostly at\\nnight, and being favored by the inclemency of the\\nweather, they succeeded in reaching their place of des-\\ntination in safety, bringing along a few horses, some\\nnecessaries and a supply of ammunition. At\\nAchitta he learned of the recent visit of a few Eng-\\nlishmen to that place, which event Don Carlos re-\\ngarded as adding to his other difficulties.\\nThe first question of Andreo was about his\\nfriend. All to whom he applied averted the eye\\nand remained silent. At length approached the\\nyoung friend who had always been detailed to as-\\nsist Teodoro as commissary, but he himself was too\\nfull for utterance. Then came Oliviera, who said\\n^Your friend Teodoro is safe in prison. I now arrest\\nyou upon charges of high crimes and misdemeanor\\nagainst the expedition. In the cell where Teodoro\\nwas chained, Eusteka was also confined. On seeing\\nAndreo, the former was moved greatly saying *-A\\nsecond time you find me thus, but I grieve to think\\nthe charges against me now are not for maintaining", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96 CHROmCLES OF PLOEIDA.\\nthe truth. Let us pray for our enemies, and peti-\\ntion that we we may not be permitted to suffer as\\nmalefactors. While engaged in their religious,\\nexercises, one portion of their hymn, which has\\nbeen preserved by the sentry, was as follows (which\\nI give almost verbally in English, not metrically\\nBear up nor resign to grief,\\nThe journey of hfe so brief\\nBend meekly neath chastisement,\\nOft in kindest mercy sent\\nLook upwards, the goal is near,\\nChrist the humble soul will cheer.\\nWhile so engaged. Padre Riquez opened the door\\nand stood among them.\\nIn the open court of the fort Don Carlos was-\\ndeliberating about the proper disposal of the mules-\\nAvhich had survived, and of the horses recently-\\nbrought. As the beasts of burthen could not all\\nbe quartered in the fort, it was unfortunately de-\\ncided without due military caution, to erect a\\nshelter on the outside in close proximity to the\\nentrance as tlie cannon placed above it was\\nthought sufficient to defend the approach. Work-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "CHROKICLES OF FLORIDA. 9?\\nmen were set about the work and a foraging party\\ndetailed to go into the cane brakes after forage for\\nthe subsistence of the horses through the winter.\\nThe new comers were greatly alarmed at the-\\nunexpected difficulties with the natives, but\\nOliviera reassured them by saying that the Indians-\\nwere cowardly and easily terrified with fire arms.\\nBesides, he was engaged in forming a party among\\nthem who should be subsidized to take up arms;\\nagainst the rest, when he should come in and\\ndecide the contest for good in behalf of the\\nSpaniards. Teodoro and Andreo had had secret\\nintelligence with the chiefs, and had thrown diffi-\\nculties in the way, but they were now imprisoned\\nso was Eusteka, tlie chiefs daughter, w^ho was to\\nbecome his wife in due time. Hostages would\\nsoon be captured and the Spaniards w^ould thus\\nhave it in their power to retaliate. He intended\\nto send for more men together with some choice\\nblood hounds so soon as the season opened, he\\nwould then be ready to compel work in the mines\\nto be resumed.\\n5", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "98 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nJust then, Riquez, with horror depicted on his\\ncountenance, rushed into their presence exclaiming\\nDiavolos! Diavolos! I exorcise them. Holy Peter\\nand Paul, the Holy Virgin of Toledo and all\\nthe saints witness against them. What impiety!\\nI exorcise them, Diavolos Frantic with emotion,\\nhe went on gesticulating, with the cross in his\\nhand, frothing out epithets, while the audience\\nstood aghast not knowing what it all meant. What\\nasked one, blanching at the thought, are the In-\\ndians upon us? Worse, he exclaimed, holy\\ninquisition, don t you understand me? The heretics\\nare here. Some one exclaimed: The padre means\\nthe English! and without waiting further many\\nrushed for the battlements, and a scene of uproar and\\nconfusion ensued. Are you mad? Riquez shouted\\nout, the heretics are there pointing to the cell\\nwhere the prisoners were kept.\\nIn the din of the moment, Don Pacheco was\\nroused from his grief and came forward; his soul\\nhad passed through a severe trial, and the traces\\nwere left imprinted upon the haggard and pa e", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "CHRON ICLES OF FLORIDA. 99\\ncountenance. He found Eiquez, (though now in\\na hollow solemn voice) still declaring how the com-\\npany entertained among them the most dangerous\\nof heretics, men who were pursued by the Avrath of\\nheaven proscribed by the faithful everywhere\\nwhose presence brought pestilence, war and famine\\nfor whom the hurricane gathered its force that\\nit might sweep them aAvay the earth opened her\\nstrong jaws to swallow them the lightning aye\\nthe lightning of heaven flashed against them, and\\nthe thunders bellowed their curse. A deadly pal or\\nseized the auditors, who saw the most appalling\\nevils impending on their heads; though, they them-\\nselves were sie^npre fiel. By this time it was\\npretty well known that Teodoro and Andreo were\\nindicated in this charge.\\nOliviera, well pleased, now proposed that liiquez\\nshould order the heretics to be disposed of as he\\nmight think best. This being approved by some,\\nEiquez said Now, if they will not repent I will\\ngiA e them over for the destruction of their bodies.\\nIt was now that Don Paclieco interposed. Do", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "100 CHROIS ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nyou know what you propose? I will tell you, the\\ndestruction of the purest and best men. Kill them\\nand take your proper names of murderers. I know\\nAndreo well a man as bold as a lion, but meek as\\na lamb, a man indeed, but with a woman s tender\\nheart. Is he not a Christian Which of you would\\nbe more ready to sacrifice his life for a friend, nay\\nfor an enemy? AVhich of you, when tortured with\\nhunger, would deny himself food to give it to a\\nfamishing companion as he did for days to me on\\nour last journey? Teodoro has served you well, to\\nhim you owe your present subsistence. He is no\\nheretic or traitor. Had you followed his advice,\\nthe Indians would not this day be our enemies.\\nDestroy them if you will, but let my lot be with\\nthem.\\nDon Carlos, seeing the sulky condition of his\\nson, entreated Eiquez and Oliviera to postpone\\nfurther action for the present, For, added he,\\nit is not his true sentiments he now expresses,\\nbut the result of a diseased imagination, which will\\ngive way when his strefigth shall be recruited. Do", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "CHRON^ICLES OF FLORIDA. 101\\nnothing now to increase his ilhiess in due time\\nshall those heretics be richly dealt with.\\nThey acquiesced in silence, andDo n Pacheco en-\\ntered the prison chamber.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "s\\nCHAPTER V.\\n|REVIOUS to the occurences last detailed,.\\nAugichee had made several attempts to rati-\\nsom Eusteka, failing in these, he had desired\\nto be allowed an interview with her, which was also\\ndenied. Taco-taka proposed also to return to con-\\nfinement on the condition of the liberation of his\\nsister, but Oliviera declared emphatically that\\nEusteka was with him from choice. This declara-\\ntion brought painful surmises to the minds of\\nChiusteh and Hiantuga, but the old man and his\\nson maintained their trust in the fidelity of\\nEusteka.\\nDuring those abortive iiegotations, Hiantuga\\nvisited the old chief very frequently, and in those\\ninterviews he began to imbibe the elements of a\\nnew belief. His mind still wavered between\\naccepting or rejecting them, when word was-\\n102", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "CHEOKICLES OF FLORIDA. 103\\nbrought that a number of new pale faces had\\narrived at the fort, and on reaching the base of the\\nhill they had killed an Indian woman supposed\\nto be Eusteka, in the act of escaping and had\\ncarried the body away. Maddened by this thought,\\nHiantuga resolved upon immediate action. The\\ncoming night was to witness his vengeance.\\nThe night set in cold, and all around was a\\ndreary waste of snow, above which arose the dark\\nmasses of the leafless forests, holding melancholy\\nconverse with the winds from the mountain tops*\\nFearing no assault in such an inclement night, the\\nSpaniards collected around two fires in the open\\ncourt and indulged in the sociable feelings of the\\nmoment. The new comers gave an account of\\ntheir past adventures. The pioneers of the expe-\\ndition spoke of their prospects. Then some ex-\\ncellent wine, which had been recently brought,\\nwas passed around. Music and songs brought\\nbefore the minds Castilian fields and maids. Nor\\nwas the youthful poet and drummer forgotten\\nthen. For the rest, Don Carlos paced around as", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2one whose mind was ill at ease, while his son sat\\nby the fire, not at all interested in what was going\\non. The prisoners who were confined in one of\\nthe wiugs were, evidently from the low sonnds in\\nthat direction, engaged in devotional exercises.\\nSometime after midnight the merriment had in a\\nmeasnre ceased, and the greater part of the com-\\npany was locked in sleep. The sentry usually\\nposted over the gateway was permitted to withdraw\\non account of the cold, the other sheltered below\\nnear the gate, being thought sufficient.\\nThings wore on in this wise till the dark of the\\nmorning, when a sudden, shrill and appalling war-\\nwhoop rang overhead, while a volley of arrows\\nwere shot into the midst of the sleepers. The\\nIndians had ascended the walls over the horse\\nshelter and held complete command of the western\\nend of the fort. Seeing Don Carlos badly, though\\nnot dangerously wounded, Don Pacheco, aroused\\nfrom his lethargy, called upon the men to arm and\\nfollow him. It was the work of a moment for\\nmany to collect at the eastern extremity of the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "CHR02TICLES OF FLORIDA. 105\\ncourt. Here, by well-directed shots at the heights\\non the opposite side, now in possession of the\\nenemy, they enabled others to rally around Don\\nPacheco. The battle then raged. On one side\\nwere the Spaniards, discharging their muskets and\\ncarbines as fast as they could load them, to repel the\\nadvance of the Indians while the latter on their\\nside tore up the logs for defence or hurled them\\nbelow upon those who had been wounded, at the\\nsame time, the twang of the bows, and the sharp\\nhiss of the arrows threatened to silence the guns.\\nAt one moment a body of Indians descended into\\nthe court and rushed towards the Spaniards with\\ntheir tomahawks and clubs, but a volley of shots\\ndid such execution that the survivors retreated\\nwith precipitation to seek shelter behind the logs\\nof the battlements. But amidst the warwhoop\\nand din of battle one voice was heard, one chief\\nwas seen leading everywhere it was Hiantuga. In\\nthe work of destruction the Indians came to the\\nplace where the prisoners were confined. Just\\nthen they were preparing to set the fort on fire,", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "106 CHKON ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nand the hope of resistance on the part of the\\ngarrison seemed almost at an end, the more so that\\nthe way to the ammunition was under the control\\nof the enemy, and the supply now on hand was\\nwell nigh exhausted. The battle then rested upon\\na forlorn and desperate effort.\\nAt this critical moment the voice of Eusteka\\nreached Hiantuga he forsook the fight to fly to\\nher rescue. She had been led outside with her\\nfellow prisoners, and a little beyond the g.ite, the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2captors were about to sacrifice the latter. It was\\nher screams to save her friends that reached the\\nwar chief. Like a flash of lightning he came upon\\nthem, caught Eusteka in his arms, and dashed\\ndown the uplifted hatchet then ready to slay\\nAndreo, crying: Spare them! They are onr\\nfriends After placing them under guard for\\nsafety, and leaving Eusteka with them, he rnshed\\nback to the fort but matters were there changed.\\nHis absence had decided the contest. Unanimated\\nby the example of their leader, the warriors had\\ndropped back and slackened the fight, while the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 107\\nSpaniards rapidly advanced, cheered on by Don\\nPacheco, who commanded them to press forward,\\nexclaiming The day is ours This movement\\ndrove the enemy to the extremity of the western\\nbattlements, gave opportunity to extinguish the\\nfires that had been kindled, and restored the maga-\\nzine and swivel to the use of the garrison. Now\\ncame forward Oliviera, Eiquez, and several others\\nwho had either secreted themselves through fear,\\nor perhaps had been rendered useless by their\\nposition; these were, by order of Don Pacheco,\\nplaced under command of Lopez, a man of un-\\ndoubted bravery and a veteran in former services,\\nOliviera was too much alarmed for his personal\\nsafety to resist this order, knowing himself entirely\\nunequal to the exigency. The enemy were upon\\nthe point of quitting the heights, or of being pre-\\ncipitated below, when Hiantuga appeared among\\nthem. A savage warwhoop was given, a partial\\nadvance attempted, when the war chief received a\\nmortal wound. The Spaniards, cheered on by\\ntheir leaders, sent a murderous discharge of shot at", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "108 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nsuch as attempted to make a stand or an advance.\\nThe Indians then retreated by means of vines\\nattached to the battlements and over a portion of\\nthe horse shelter within their reach, and in so\\ndoing managed to carry off some of their dead and\\nwounded.\\nWhile Teodoro and Andreo, in great anxiety for\\nthe fate of their comrades, stood guarded near the\\nmining pit, a chief, fainting from the loss of bloody\\nwas borne near them. Teodoro recognized Sant-\\nnoh. The blood still welled from a wound in the\\narm, which by his request Teodoro was allowed to\\ninspect and arrest. When Santnoh had recovered\\nfull consciousness he said: The white Kongateh;\\nalways the white Kongateh. Unaik is the friend\\nof Santnoh.\\nShortly after, the retreat went on with the\\ngreatest haste, and the two white men were left\\nalone. They then returned to the fort to deliver\\nthemselves up, but were set at large by Don\\nPacheco, then in command. It was day; a truly\\nsad spectacle presented itself. The partially dis-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 109\\nmantled fort, with marks of incendiarism, rose\\namidst a hill of crimsoned snow. Before the gate,\\non the west and in the moat, the space was strewn\\nwith corpses. Inside of the fort the marks of\\ncombat were still more horrible. When the muster\\nroll was called, seventeen men were found dead, up-\\nwards of thirty more or less severely wounded, and\\ntwo unaccountably missing. The Indians must\\nhave brought to the assault some three hundred\\nwarriors, of whom, it was conjectured, they sus-\\ntained the loss of at least one-third.\\nThis was a day of sorrow to the company. Their\\nattention was divided in burying the dead, min-\\nistering to the wounded (of whom two died), re-\\npairing the breaches and making further prepara-\\ntions for defense. In consequence of the severe\\nwounds of Don Carlos and the present necessity\\nDon Pacheco still retained command, assisted by\\nLopez, to the satisfaction of all but Oliviera and\\nhis warmest partizans. Oliviera, now smarting\\nunder what he now termed a degradation, en-\\ndeavored to defend his conduct at the beginning", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "110 CHRONICLES OF PLORIDA.\\nof the battle, which had been notoriously pusilani-\\nmous, by stating that his intentions had been to\\nfire the magazine under the Indians, though ample\\nevidence existed to show that he was engaged in\\nmaking a way of escape on the east.\\nPacheco s first care was to dismiss the few\\nwounded prisoners with words of conciliation and\\npeace to the chiefs, offering them permission to\\nremove and bury their dead. He desired a confer-\\nence with them, and promised, in advance to\\nevacuate the fort at the end of the winter, provided\\nthey would not oppose his building elsewhere. He\\nadmitted the wrong that had been done by seizing\\nhostages, and promised not to countenance such\\nconduct in the future. This act of clemency and\\noonciliation, together with their recent and disas-\\ntrous defeat, induced the chiefs who had fought,\\nall except Santnoh, to advocate a talk of peace.\\nThey came the next day to bury their dead, and\\nafter mutual recriminations and concessions a sort\\nof amnesty was established to terminate after due\\nnotice by either party. Nothing could be heard of\\nthe fate of the two Spaniards.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. Ill\\nThe young war chief was borne to Wahu, whither\\nAngichee and Ensteka accompanied him, in the\\nhope by constant assiduity to give relief to the\\nsufferer. When the ohl man knew that Teodoro\\nhad been brought out of the fort with Eusteka, he\\nconstantly regretted that the latter had not pre-\\nvailed upon him to accompany her. Hiantuga\\nlingered for a few days, and now the final scene\\ndrew nigh. Augichee knelt beside him, a little\\nfurther off sat Eusteka, supported by her mother,\\nboth sobbing in the agony of their hearts, while at\\nthe foot stood Taco-taka, gazing in silent grief.\\nJust then footsteps were heard and Santnoh ap-\\npeared. According to Taco-taka, who was an\\nadept in Cherokee poetry, having been brought up\\namong the wise men, this was the song of the\\nKongateh, delivered in measured cadences and\\nwith grave movements\\nShall the wounded warrior hear the war song?\\nLet Santnoh sing the fame of Hiantuga.\\nLet his name live among the warriors\\nBy his deeds they shall kindle the fires of war,\\nWho was Hiantuga? our children shall say,", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nHiantuga the first warchief of the red men,\\nWho fought the fires of the pale faces.\\nWhen their lightnings flashed, their thunders burst.\\nHis proud war whoop rose like the storm in its\\nwrath.\\nHiantuga faintly called his attention and said,\\nLet Augichee, let my father sing the death song,\\nnot of war, not of blood but of peace. Cease then\\nto mention the bloody path of battle. I became a\\nwarchief to win Eusteka I fought to revenge her\\ndeath, now I go before her to the spirit land, the\\nland of peace. Hiantuga has other thoughts. Au-\\ngichee has told the truth. Sing, Augichee. The\\nold man began in a low and plaintive tone, whilst\\nSantnoh listened in wonder. The words were of\\npeace, of love to God and man, of victory over\\ndeath and of immortal life. New thoughts of a\\nnew belief were breathed in Avords, Avarm from the\\nimpulse of the heart. At every pause Hiantuga\\nwhispered Truth. When Augichee had euded,\\nHiantuga called Eusteka to draw nearer; he then\\nwhispered I go in peace will Eusteka meet me\\nthere and while she pressed his hand in token", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "CHROI^ICLES OF FLORIDA. 113\\nof assent, a single word peace, and a smile\\nwhich passed not away, were the last signs of life\\nexhibited by the chief. A lond wail rang among\\nthe hills. Santnoh left abruptly, saying to Augi-\\nchee Thus have you corrupted the boldest war-\\nrior of the Cherokees I\\nEusteka died about six days after, of fever\\nbrought on by the trials through which she had\\npassed. She never ceased to speak of Hiantuga\\nwhile she lived, even in her delirium, she con-\\nstantly called on her beloved. So soon as the\\nweather would permit, their bodies were carried to\\nbe buried on a small hill, about which flows the\\nrivulet Tola, within a league or two of Attinha, for\\nthere they had first plighted troth. They were\\nburied there side by side at midnight. A long\\nprocession of friends followed them bearing\\ntorches.\\nOn a former occasion it was stated that a lad\\nfrom Santa Fe had accompanied a friend in search\\nof their fortunes. He became the drummer of the\\nexpedition, and was also gifted by nature with some", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\npoetical genius, which he exercised, however,\\nrudely. To him or to Taco-taka, whatever metrical\\nproductions are here preserved, must be ascribed.\\nI insert the following funeral dirge\\nMourn for the dead, who never return\\nFrom the tombs of their long sojourn,\\nFollow them now, as we ll follow\\nThem soon, in one continued flow.\\nThey rest from their woes, they rest from their foes.\\nAnd their spirits have fled, like dew from the rose.\\nWhere is the spirits home\\nWhere do our beloved roam\\nDark clouds must intervene\\nTill death reveals the scene.\\nMourn for the dead No Happy are they\\nMourn for the living\u00e2\u0080\u0094 their woes display\\nThe anguished heart the tearful eye,\\nThe tortured bosom s suppressed sigh.\\nBury the dead at dark midnight.\\nSeek not the tombs in the sunny light.\\nDarkness and woe are fitting mates.\\nWith every funeral intimates.\\nSo when morn shall return with her roseate crest,\\nWe shall seek for those who are at rest.\\nWe shall go to the scene\\nWhere their presence had been\\nAnd there, their image dear\\nShall seem forever near.\\nOft shall we start when memory recalls,\\nAs evening s dewy shadow falls,\\nThe forms, the features that we love,\\nAnd longing, hope to meet above.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "CHROKICLES OF FLORIDA. 115\\nNot long after the battle, Don Pacheco was con-\\nfined by sickness, and so Oliviera assumed the com-\\nmand he had long coveted. He then proceeded\\nagain to imprison Teodoro and Andreo as enemies\\nto the Spanish faith, and therefore natural allies of\\nthe English. He urged Riquez to excite the pre-\\njudices of the company to the highest pitch\\nagainst those men. No doubt, said Riquez^\\nthose disasters we have suffered were sent in the\\nwrath of Heaven, because we harbored heretics.\\nLet us now show our true repentance by bring-\\ning them to trial. If they recant, well; if not^\\nwe shall see. With this intent Riquez called on\\nDon Carlos, who was still suffering from his\\nwound, and under the fear of death liad entirely\\nabandoned all his former aspirations and would, in-\\ndeed, prefer the walls of a monastery to his present\\nposition and had thus undergone another mental\\nphase and become childishly superstitious. These\\ntwo, with natural bigotry, decided to appoint a\\ncommission, with powers of life and death whose\\njudgment should be final in the matter of those", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nmen. Oliviera, Eiqnez, and a tool of tlie former,\\nby name Pedro Blanco, were constituted such. The\\nprisoners were examined, teased and annoyed day\\n.after day, and their confinement became extremely\\nrigorous. Finally, they were put to the torture.\\nTeodoro s more delicate frame gave way at once,\\nand after the first question he could no longer use\\nhis limbs still his constancy remained, and greatly\\n.awed Eiquez, whose nature was not harsh, and whose\\nmental culture caused him to doubt the correctness\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of his own actions. Andreo, whether from his own\\niron constitution or the greater leniency shown\\nhim, was little disabled. Far from denying their\\nreligious tenets, they gloried in them, but scorned\\n.all idea of being traitors to the King, or in the pay\\nof the English, as charged. Oliviera, finding\\nEiquez about to temporise, ordered them either to\\nTenounce their faith, or to prepare for trial the\\nnext day that is, for condemnation. He did not\\nwish to await for the possible recovery of Don\\nPacheco, for he looked upon those men as in the\\nway of his ambition.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 117\\nSoon after this, Oliviera and some cavaliers rode\\nout and when near the river came up to a single\\nIndian, apparently on the way to the fort. The\\nleader, viewing him as a spy, hailed him in insult-\\ning language, using an epithet very obnoxious to\\nthe Cherokees; whereupon the Indian, not the least\\ndaunted, returned taunts for taunts, till the wrath\\nof Oliviera getting the better of his prudence he\\nordered a charge against the defenceless Indian,\\nwho was seized and mercilessly beaten. When\\nturned loose the Indian asked Is this the way\\nyou keep the truce? It is now believed that\\nthis Indian was Hilnota, himself.\\nAt night an individual, born indeed under the\\nSpanish flag, but whose ancestry (regardless of\\nearthly fame, yet anxious to. be inscribed\\nin the Book of Life) had sacrificed all in\\nthe cause of religious liberty, contrived by\\nmanagement to secure the post of sentry over\\nthe prisoners in the latter watch. He enter-\\ned the cell unobserved, and he found the\\nprisoners, for whom he was concerned, soundly", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "118 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nasleep. Anclreo first awoke, and when he found\\nthe sentry was a long and tried companion, who\\nhad risked himself in their behalf, he entreated\\nhim to depart. But the latter urged them to\\nprepare to escape, for he had made arrange-\\nments with Augichee to receive them, that even\\nnow Taco-taka was below awaiting to conduct\\nthem to the chief, with the consent of the\\nheads of the nation. Teodoro replied briefly:\\nMy children, it is my desire that you two shall\\nescape from this place. For my part, I should but\\nendanger your flight, and my loss of strength\\nwould again put me in the power of my enemies.\\nGo, in mercy, and may the blessing of God accom-\\npany you. Andreo, being by this time liberated\\nfrom his chains, rushed to the embrace of Teodoro,\\nBaying We are one in life, let us if there is need\\nbe one in death. come, I will bear you on my\\nshoulders in safety or perish with you in the at-\\ntempt to escape. Stay not here to be butchered\\nbut if you are determined to stay I will not desert\\nyou in this extremity, but share your fate. Like-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 119\\nwise said the sentry, only regretting that the drum-\\nmer, who followed from Santa Fe, was not now\\nwith them, but lioped he would soon escape. Teo-\\ndoro could not endure this any longer, but still\\nbegged they Avould not hazard their lives for him.\\nGo, then, said he, with my blessing; God can\\ndeliver me from this extremity. If not, he added,\\nwe shall meet above. Remember how St. Paul\\nwas let down a wall, said Andreo, suffer the\\nsame to be done for you. I yield, then, said\\nTeodoro, but first let us commend ourselves to\\nOod.\\nWhen Teodoro s chains were entirely removed\\nhe looked sadly at his excoriated limbs, and said,\\nI fear your love and assiduity are in vain. I think\\nI shall sleep before another sunset. Where shall I\\nsee Augichee The answer was, near the furnace.\\nThe furnace, he mused, aye, that is the place.\\nI pray God to have you in his keeping wlien I am\\ngone.\\nAndreo and the sentry having removed part of\\nthe roof, conveyed him to the palisades, there they", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "120 CHROiTICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nlet liim down by means of a rope and blanket,\\nsafely into the arms of Taco-taka, at the base of the\\nwestern side near the precipice. Andreo next de-\\nscended followed by the sentry. Teodoro was sup-\\nported in the arms of the two friends, while Taco-\\ntaka, who silently and cautiously led the way,\\nwatched around and above lest they should be dis-\\ncovered.\\nThey had thus safely reached the main ridge,\\nwhen Oliviera, going the rounds of duty by an\\nodd chance, for this was usually entrusted to\\nLopez, saw the prison door ajar and without a\\nsentry. He ran up the ladder and calling others\\nto follow, discovered by the aid of flamebeaux that\\nthe prisoners had escaped. The alarm was in-\\nstantly extended throughout all the fort and all\\nwere called to arms. The sentry over the gate,\\nsaw for the first time, though indistinctly, some\\nmoving objects in the dark going towards the fur-\\nnice. Furious with excitement Oliviera sprung to\\nhis side, and cried out Hang them turn the\\nguQ towards them, and let them have it. Riquez", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "CHEOi^ICLES OF FLOKIDA. 121\\nliiinded up the match a loud report followed, the\\ngarrison stood in breathless suspense, when a\\ncry of distress was heard in the distance. Oliviera\\nexclaimed They have got it He then ordered\\nthe few horses to be saddled and prepared to sally\\nforth at the head of some choice men. But before\\nthis could be accomplished Don Pacheco, who had\\nrisen from his hammock, appeared, and though\\nstill feeble, resumed the command, Oliviera vowed\\nvengeance for this second affront, but he checked\\nhis feeling when he saw Lopez and others follow\\nthe lately recognized leader of the expedition.\\nThe fugitives had scarcely reached the furnace\\nwhen Teodoro was committed to the arms of Augi-\\nchee and his wife, who gladly received him. The\\nfriends went. in search of poles to form a litter,\\nwhile Taco-taka was sent a little way back to\\nwatch against pursuit. Teodoro sat on the trunk\\nof a tree between the aged couple when a discharge\\nof grape or slug shot bore all three to the ground.\\nChiusteh was killed on the spot. The other two\\nw^ere mortally wounded. Pointing to Chiusteh^\\n6", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "122 CHRONICLES OF FLOEIDA.\\nTeorodo said: She is gone before us but not long.\\nThen clasping the old chief in his arms, he uttered\\na brief prayer. The words soon became faint and\\nceased. When Tacotaka saw what had occurred he\\nuttered a cry of woe. Andreo examined the dead\\ncalmly. No sign of grief escaped him, but on\\ntaking up the old chief, neither he nor the sentry,\\nwho stood near could refrain from tears, because\\nthe wound was fearful. Augichee then slowly\\nsaid: I have shed blood, it is just, my death\\nshould be bloody. Unaik never harmed any one.\\nGreat was the day that brought this man and you\\nto Augichee. take Taco-taka with you. Take\\nthe only tie that binds Augichee to this world. Be\\na father to him. Having said this the chief\\nfainted through loss of blood. The tramp of\\nhorses now drew nigh. Taco-taka would not leave\\nthe body of his father; but Andreo drew him away\\ntelling him it was useless to expose themselves\\nsince their friends were beyond human help. At\\nsome little distance they concealed themselves\\nbehind some kalmia bushes. Pacheco was the first", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 123\\nto alight and examine the bodies. The old chief\\nshowed signs of life, which was ebbing fast away.\\nHe could speak again a few words. Pointing to\\nTeodoro he said almost inaudibly: His fault\\nand mine was to know more than our people.\\nThen Augichee s eyes shone with an effect to startle\\nthe Spaniards, and with the words, my dream,\\nhis spirit passed away. Pacheco s indignation was\\naroused against Oliviera How dared you to im-\\nprison those just men, he said, and when they\\nhad escaped, preferring the wild woods and their\\ntenants to your society, you basely murdered one of\\nthem thus. Behold your other victims, if the\\ndarkness of the night will allow you to see your\\ndark deeds. This aged Indian was our best friend,\\nwhen all his people were our foes. AVhoever will,\\nlet him stay in this region, dishonor and Pacheco\\ncannot live together. Oliviera merely rejoined,\\ntake care, Pacheco, or you will try our patience too\\nfar. But, interposed Kiquez, who had come\\nup, Teodoro and his friends were heretics.\\nHeretics, said Pacheco, sneeringly, heretics\\nwhom God will avenge.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "124 CHKOKICLES OF FLOEIDA.\\nHe had scarcely said this, when that sound which\\nhad often struck terror in the stoutest heart (the\\nwarwhoop) rose loud and sharp in the direction\\nof the fort. In the panic of the moment, Oliviera\\nthrew his lantern an the ground, put spurs to his\\nhorse, and dashed for the fort to seek for shelter^\\nOn the other hand, Don Pacheco, more calm, en-\\ndeavored to keep the men back. Seven alone re-\\nmained, three of whom were mounted. Having\\nseen their arms were in order, Pacheco thought it\\nbest to re-approach the fort cautiously, lest they\\nmight fall into an ambuscade. The two other\\nfugitives came forward from their hiding places,,\\nand reported to Don Pacheco, who was glad to\\nmeet them unhurt, and also to learn that no enemy\\nwas in the direction from whence they came. Taco-\\ntaka also joined them, and stated that he had an-\\nticipated an attack on the fort, but did not expect\\nit so soon. A report was pretty current that the\\nSpaniards had violated the truce.\\nAndreo and Taco-taka were sent ahead as scouts,\\nwhile the rest followed after, slowly leading the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "CHROKICLES OF FLORIDA. 125\\nhorses. They had not gone but a few steps when\\ntwo riderless horses came galloping along and weve\\ncaught by those with Pacheco. Again the war-\\nwhoop and reports of firing redoubled the party\\nstopped, warned that the Indians were between\\nthem and the fort. Presently a horse dashed by\\ndragging something after him. The horse was pur-\\nsued and caught by the bridle, the corpse of Olivi-\\nera was found attached by the foot to the stirrup.\\nNow a bright glare burst up from the fort it rose\\nand fell for a moment, then towered on high with\\na crackling noise. Pacheco lost all hope, and ex-\\nclaimed in agony My father Oh, my father\\nThen came another tramp of horses at full speed,\\nand the riders (when they saw persons in their path)\\nmanifested a disposition to turn away. One of the\\nhorses bore Lopez and the other Riquez and the\\ndrummer. As Lopez drew up he said Don\\nCarlos was one of the first victims Let us es-\\ncape with all speed\\nThe persons now on the brow of the river hill\\nwere fourteen in number, including Taco-taka, and", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "126 CHROl^ ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nhad among them nine horses. They determined to\\ntake Taco-taka along as guide, and hurry on their\\nflight, all being mounted by causing some to ride\\ndouble. Chosing the most hidden routes they\\narrived in safety in the vicinity of Wahu, when a\\nreport of a terrific explosion reached their ears.\\nThe powder magazine had been blown up, destroy-\\ning numbers of the Indians, as was afterwards\\nunderstood, and thus possibly interfering favorably\\nfor the flight of the whites who had so escaped.\\nThe sun was now risen. At Wahu, Taco-taka ob-\\ntained leave to call at the lodge of the mother of\\nOmuna, to whom he committed the burial of his\\nparents and Teodoro, for which he received assur-\\nances that all should be done according to his\\ndesire. This detention was momentary, and then\\nthe fugitives rode on with all possible haste. As\\nthey approached Charna, a woman espied them and\\nran to alarm the village. Being in want of pro-\\nvisions, they saw on consultation no alternative\\nbut to make a dash into the place, which upon\\nentrance was found entirely deserted by the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 127\\nwomen and other feeble inmates, its late sole oc-\\ncupants. Having procured provisions enough for\\na couple of days, they quickly remounted and rode\\noff in haste. When night overtook them a few\\nleagues onwards, and as the horses were well nigh\\nbroke down, they diverged from the banks of the\\nHiawassee and made for the recesses of the moun-\\ntains to obtain some rest. Then it was that Lopez\\nbegan the doleful recital of the capture of the fort:\\nThe excitement consequent upon the escape of\\nTeodoro and his friends, and the departure of\\nOliviera, had not subsided, a species of insubordi-\\nnation reigned among those who remained behind,\\namounting to a little over forty souls, part of whom\\nhad not recovered from their recent wounds. The\\ngate was open and curiosity led many to it and the\\nbattlements overlooking the river hill. The sen-\\ntries had quit their posts ostensibly to aid the\\nforward movement, w^here all interest centered.\\nSuch was the state of things, when a war whoop\\nunexpectedly rung in the rear of the fort. The\\nIndians had silentlv filled the moat with fascines", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "128 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nand surmounted the ramparts, whilst at the same\\ntime masses of them had climbed the precipitous\\nsides of the hill to the front of the entrance and\\nforced their way to it. That point became the seat\\nof the combat. There was no opportunity to close\\nthe gate. The attack was so close that fire arms\\ncould scarcely be employed. In the meanwhile the\\nIndians having piled an immense mass of combus-\\ntibles in the rear, rising against the palisade, set it\\non fire beyond the hope of extinction. Just now,\\nsome of the Spaniards had succeeded in making a\\nproper use of fire arms, but the swivel having been\\ndischarged could not conveniently be reloaded, and\\nwas thus more than useless in the crisis, as it took\\nthe attention of some few who might have been\\nbetter emploj^ed. But all resistance was vain. The\\nflames increased the fort was on fire. Indeed, the\\nIndians and the fire had surmounted the battle-\\nments in the rear. War whoops and Hilnota!\\nHilnota! rung in their ears. Don Carlos came\\nforward, his face was deadly pale. At this moment\\nthe Indians penetrated into the fort from the gate.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "CHROKICLES OF FLORIDA. 129\\nTwo Indians fonglit with Don Carlos, one of whom\\nhe killed npon the spot; the other, Santnoh,\\nuttering a yell, cleaved him to the ground with a\\ntomahawk. Thus fell Don Carlos. Unable to pro-\\ntect Don Carlos, and as the place was lost, Lopez\\nseized the only remaining horse, resolved to cut his\\nway out. Finding the gate partially clear, he made\\na sudden dash towards it, upsetting the savages in\\nthe way, or cutting them down with his sabre till\\nhe had gotten past unhurt. On the way he saw\\nthe corpses of the Spaniards who were slaughtered\\non returning from the furnace. A horse lay dead\\nbeside them. Further on he met Padre Kiquez,\\nand another on horseback. They rode together\\nnot dreaming they should ever meet with any more\\nof their comrades, and in utter despair of ever\\nescaping from the savages.\\nRiquez related that in approaching the fort\\nhe had been taken upon the horse of his com-\\npanion, who finally reined in, saying After all,\\nDon Pacheco may be right Presently, blows and\\ncries were heard ahead, and some horses one", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "130 CHROi^ ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\ndragging a body passed them. They then con-\\ncluded to return towards the furnace.\\nThe next day the fugitives resumed their retreat.\\nWhen they had crossed the Naucouchee mountains\\nthree of the horses were abandoned as unfit for use.\\nIn this emergency Andreo and Taco-taka resigned\\ntheir horses to Kiquez, so they, Lopez and another\\nindividual, were reduced to travel afoot. As they\\ncame to the few villages on their route, the inhabi-\\ntants fled away, thus giving them a chance to obtain\\nprovisions from time to time. In a few days there\\nremained but one horse among them, and as their\\nprogress was necessarily slow and circuitous, they\\nbegin finally to suffer from want, and miglit have\\nperished had it not been for the indefatigable\\nlabors of Taco-taka, Andreo and another, who\\nprocured for the party roots, and occasionally\\ngame and eggs, which enabled all to subsist,\\nthough somewhat scantily. For a day or two\\nAndreo and his friend had to assist Padre Eiquez\\non the journey, often bearing him on their should-\\ners. Broken hearted, sick and weary, at last they", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 131\\nreached the confines of the Creeks, a friendly peo-\\nple, who received them with unbounded hospitality.\\nThat night Andreo was called upon to offer up\\nthanks for deliverance and prayers for their future\\nwelfare. But he said the place belonged of right\\nto Padre Riquez, an ecclesiastic. Not so,\\nsaid the latter, I yield to you whose heart is\\npure, who has won your enemy by unheard of\\nkindness. For me to learn of Andreo is now the\\ndesire of my heart. Here Andreo could not con-\\ntain himself, but wept aloud, saying at the same\\ntime that my brother had lived to witness\\nthis I Yes, said both Pacheco and Eiquez,\\nwould that he now were alive He was slain\\nunrighteously, Pacheco continued, the true gold\\nwas in him. We indeed sought ignorantly for that\\nwhich has brought misery to us, when we might\\nhave been filled with eternal riches. Our minia-\\nture state, with all its elements of authority, like\\nthe kingdoms of the earth, has passed away. Be-\\nhold its sad remnants. Give me your hand, An-\\ndreo, I was reclaimed through you. And I,", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "132 CHROmCLES OF FLORIDA.\\nsaid Lopez, when I saw and heard a captive pray,\\nhe won my heart. Last of all, added Eiquez,\\nput me down conquered by love. The voice of\\nall concur that Andreo shall be our leader in name,\\nas indeed he was and is, in fact. Not I, not I,\\nexclaimed Andreo, who am the least among\\nyou. Teodoro was indeed an an omted minister,\\nthough banished and proscribed of men. I was\\nbut his servant after having been forced to serve\\nin the Inquisition against my will, I found in\\nTeodoro a brother. They then united in heart-\\nfelt devotion.\\nI will now draw this narrative to a close. About\\neleven months after the expedition had started,\\nfourteen men returned to Pensacola. Pacheco and\\nanother of the party, a good linguist and geome-\\ntrician, received employment as commissioner and\\nsecretary to locate and set the metes and bounds\\nof the great Arredondo land grant, a task of no\\nlittle difficulty. Eiquez was proscribed because\\nof his changed sentiments. For a time he lived\\nwith Andreo, who embarked in the fishery, assisted", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "CHROKICLES OF FLORIDA. 133\\nby the lad who was the poet and drummer of the\\nexpedition, but whose father resided near Tomoko\\non the coast. Jealousy among the fishermen soon\\ndrove them from their labors, and so in company\\nwith Pacheco, forming a party of six (including\\nTaco-taka, now called Juan) took their way back\\nto the Santa Fe where they had friends.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "EDDK II,\\nCHAPTER I.\\nTHE GOTERI^MEN T UKDER D0:N DIEGO (WHOSE\\nFULL ]^AME IS KEVER GLYEN) CONCLUDED.\\n^^FTER the unsuccessful attack by Colonel\\nPalmer, on St. Augustine, which as we have\\nseen, took place in 1725, the senor governor\\nfell sick of a calenture, from which he recovered\\nwith difficulty, being left for a long time subject to\\nan unhappy disorder of the nerves with some im-\\npairment of his mind, to such an extent, indeed,\\nthat he could not tolerate any sudden noise or\\nemotion of any sort. Malicious persons had their sur-\\nmises as to the cause, but as he was there under the\\ntender care of the senora, we Avill not witlidraw\\nthe curtain of the sick room.\\nIn time however, through good nursing and\\ncare, Don Diego convalesced, and though the tone\\n134", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. IS 5\\nof his mind was not restored, once more the usual\\nrounds of festivities resounded through the Gov-\\nernor s Palace. It was now for the first time, that\\nhe saw his duty to render the Koyal Government\\na relation of what had transpired in Florida.\\nAs the secretary of the governor was constantly\\nnow under the influence of wine to keep off the\\ncalenture, a young scribe was dictated to write in\\npart, as follows The king requires of me won-\\nders and wonders I have done. Consider what\\ndifficulties I have heroically surmounted. With a\\nhandful of men, not of tlie most courageous sort,\\nand badly supplied with arms and ammunition, I\\nwas placed here to protect a vast country from the\\nattack of the English and savages. Well, I have\\nsucceeded. This bulwark of the Spanish posses-\\nsions is once more safe after a severe campaign\\nagainst the English pirates and their Indian con-\\nfederates. The enemy in prodigious numbers was\\nled by one Palmer. Our little force was about to\\nsuccumb through a panic, when I hastened to their\\nrelief and bv a flank movement turned the scale", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "136 CHRONICLES OP FLGKIDA.\\nin our favor. The enemy finding his plan frustrat-\\ned retreated with precipitation. Our troopa then\\nfollowed, afoot and in barges, till he was out of\\nsight. For this service the governor received the\\ncross of Saint lago.\\nThe 19 th day of September, 1726, is memor-\\nable for the occurrence of a terrible storm. At\\nnoon of that day, the air appeared unusually clear\\nand calm, not a cloud rested above the horizon. A\\nlittle later the pelicans began to wing their lazy\\nflight landward. Thin vapors then began to settle\\nfrom above or move in from the sea. The tempera-\\nture, then rather high for the season, fell the mist\\nthickened while the sun, now declining, shone\\nshorn of his beams. Then came a puff of wind\\nand ceased. Transparent, watery clouds heaved\\nup in strange commotion and hung overhead as if\\nan ocean flowed above. Then came a warning gust\\nwhich shook all things as it passed. It ceased, but\\nnot long, for now the hurricane, gathering all its\\nrage, rushed to the charge with the sound of a\\nmighty torrent. Its terrific and appalling dirge", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 137\\nwas mingled with the crashing of the forest and\\nbuiklings, the lashing of the tempest-driven rain\\nand the roarings of the sea, whose angry and foam-\\ning billows dash far beyond the shore line. Man,\\nbewildered, knows not where to betake himself.\\nThe sea, the sea rises it now flows over spots that\\nfor centuries had been without its reach. A night\\nstarless a night of substantial darkness, of\\nhorror and dismay, reigns over all. Who now can\\nsooth the Avidow and the fatherless, the stranger\\nand the helpless Thou, God, seest me Tis He\\nalone who can bid the storm to cease, the sun to\\nrise!\\nYet, hark! The last fitful howl is past and\\nthe storm has swept by. A ain delusion. From\\nlandward it now returns, and with redoubled force\\ndescends to the work of destruction. Morning\\nreturns but the sun appears not. Watery clouds\\nyet spread on high, over a waste of ruins on earth.\\nStill the storm, though noAv abating, holds its\\nsway. Horror holds every tongue mute. The sea\\nhas receded leaving its shores with the marks of it", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nwrath. Ye storm-tossed sufferers in the wildest\\nhour when despair was near, did ye not hear the\\nVoice It is I be not afraid\\nI am almost ashamed to leave the solemn train\\nof thought to dive into the ludicrous but it can-\\nnot be now avoided. Daring the storm where was\\nour hero Pale, through fear, and trembling in\\nevery limb he sat muffled in a blanket in the\\nkitchen corner. Was not the roaring of the storm\\nenough Could it not silence the excessive wrang-\\nling and rattle of his wife, who, puffing in the\\nexcess of pinguescence, scolded and bandied him\\nfor his lack of manliness Where was his Oastilian\\npride, his noble demeanor Shall the very menials\\nlaugh at him\\nThis had been a gala day at the governor s\\nhouse. Thither had congregated all the officers of\\nthe establishment, in honor of the senora s birth-\\nday. The choicest venison and fish had graced the\\nboard, while wine and wit had flowed to excess.\\nThe chief servant, Jose, had witnessed his most\\ntrying time. A little before the storm, the gov-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 1 31\\nernor, who sat at the head of the table, with a cup\\nof wine in one hand and a cigar in the other, was\\nengrossing the attention of the company as follows:\\nYonr worships do not know, yon cannot realize-\\nuntil deprived of this 7mdtuin in parvo that is of\\nme what a blessing it is to have as a commander, a\\nman who studies the interest of his post night and\\nday. When the redoubtable Palmer came against\\nyou, what would have become of you had you had\\nthe misfortune to have been under the command\\nof my predecessor Why you would have been killed\\nby the English and scalped by the Indians. Noav you\\nhave seen what superior bravery and military strat-\\nagems can do. I sent Sebastian Seco to pepper the\\nenemy with all his might, even though they had\\nburied their balls in the walls of the fort. I was\\nthe soul of this movement. Presently, as I stood\\non the plaza giving orders 1 don t know how the\\nenemy knew I was there, but so it was down\\ncame a cannon ball and made a great hole in the\\nground. They wished to get rid of me and make\\nan easy conquest. Forewarned is forearmed,", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "140 CHROJs ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nthought I. A commander should not expose his\\nperson till the trying hour. So I hurried to a\\nisecure position and kept couriers running to and\\nfro. This black, Jose, did his part well. At\\nlength the enemy fell back, and I knew it was only\\nSi feint to change position, I rushed to the scene\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of action.\\nHere he was interrupted by the storm. A dead\\npalor seized him notwithstanding the potations,\\nand he asked in a whisper Is that the English\\nYes, yes, I know the sound the English have\\ntaken the town Eush out, men, and do your\\nbest! Now, when the wind shook the building\\nto its very foundation, he ran seeking the senora.\\n0, Juanita, he cried, why did we come here to\\nbe murdered by the .barbarous English? The\\nsenora was too much accustomed of late, to\\nthe humors of her husband, to be easily\\ncarried away with them. So, in his alarm, he\\nran out and immediately saw his error. Jose\\nwas sent to call back the officers who were ordered\\nto their posts and enjoined to use increased vigi-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 141\\nlance an order for which they had reason to curse\\nthe governor from the bottom of their hearts. But\\nto Don Diego the sense of danger was as great from\\na hurricane as from the English, so he retired to\\nthe kitchen, as before stated, and spent the time\\nmore dead than alive. Scenes like the preceding\\nhad been so frequent during the summer, when the\\nthunder squalls peculiar to this region occurred^\\nthat they ceased to demand any serious notice.\\nSome time after this, a sail was descried in the\\noffing, beyond Anastasia Island, making for the\\nbar. As the tide would not serve till midnight,\\nthe pilots were of opinion she would not venture to\\ncross the bar at best rather difficult till noon of\\nthe next day. Don Diego, ever apprehensive,\\nwalked down the plaza to the water wall. He then\\nspied the vessel for a long time, and occasionally\\ncast a glance on the pilot boat on the way to reach\\nher. He then turned to the lieutenant and re-\\nmarked there was cause to give rise to suspicion\\nthat the vessel was only in advance of a strong\\nsquadron, for though he could descry the ensign of", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nSpain, other marks showed she was under false\\ncolors; in proof, her sails were too white, her hull\\ntoo black for a Spaniard. Besides, the pilot, as\\nhe draws near, has evident fears of an enemy. See\\nHow he goes this way then that way instead of\\npursuing the direct course\\nThe lieutenant who was a man of few words, a\\nbrave and obedient soldier, made no reply, but\\nhastended at the command of the governor to put\\nthe guns in order. He was not a Spaniard, but\\nas an artillerist he could not be superceded, and\\nin truth. Palmer had been repelled by his brave\\ndefence. But such is fame, even his name had been\\nmetamorphosed by the Spaniards, for which he\\ncared not a maravede. When Don Diego could see\\nno objects in the offing, through the shades of the\\nevening, he retired for the night to the fort as the\\nsafest asylum, leaving the senora to the care of\\nJose and the aged padre, a man of unquestioned\\nworth.\\nThe night was dark and objects con Id not be dis-\\ntinquished a few paces off. Lieutenant Seco had", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "CHROI^ICLES OF FLORIDA. 143\\nretired to rest, according to the routine of the gar-\\nrison, and Diego was entertaining an ecclesiastic in\\nfront of the chapel with some of his wonderful ex-\\nploits, when the sentry near the tower reported\\nthat the sound of oars were heard in the harbor.\\nBeing in a place of comparative security surroun-\\nded by massive walls and bastions, knowing, too,\\nthat the porous lime-stone blocks with which !San\\nMarco had been built could not be fractured by\\ncannon balls, Don Diego was not at all daunted by\\nthe intelligence, but in the haughtiest tone of\\ncommand, ordered the men to open the batteries\\nupon the enemy and then hail them afterwards.\\nThey will find we are not asleep, but prepared to\\nmeet them. Then a tremendous discharge\\nensued Don Diego lost all presence of mind and\\nhurrying the padre along, sought the recesses of\\nthe chapel to hide himself, under the impression\\nthat a bomb of the enemy had exploded within the\\nfort.\\nThe flash of the guns had revealed only a single\\nboat or canoe a short distance from the shore, over", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "144 CHROKICLES OF PLOKIDA.\\nwhich the balls had luckily passed. When the\\nroar had subsided, continued cries of Amigo\\nAmigo I arose from the surface of the water. Seco,\\nwho had reached the parapet by this time, shouted\\nout, Qui viva? The answer then again was\\nAmigo After which a female voice screamed\\nout It is no one but Franchita and her father\\nThus the battery of San Marco had been opened\\nupon an old man and his daughter on their return\\nin an open boat to town fear having magnified\\nthis into a flotilla of the enemy.\\nIn reflecting upon the occurrences of life, we\\nsometimes in our shortsightedness, are tempted to\\nsay, how much better if such and such a thing\\nhad happened, forgetting for the time that all\\nthings are under the direction of Infinite Wisdom,\\nwho alone can see the end clearly from the begin-\\nning. I was on the point of saying how many\\nwoes had been spared had Franchita died on this\\nnight but I recall it as sinful. The vessel seen in\\nthe preceding day, arrived at noon and proved to\\nbe one Avith supplies from Havannah.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 145\\nFranchita liad been not long married to Fran-\\ncisco Corello, a subaltern attached to the garrison.\\nUnder a gay exterior she carried a deeply tender\\nheart from Avhich welled up the purest emotions.\\nCorello was about 35 years of age, of strong,\\nathletic build, with features rather stern, enclosed\\nby very black whiskers, in disposition somewhat\\ntaciturn, but in great esteem with his comrades on\\nw^hom he had spent his wages in treating them to\\naquadiente. Four or five months of married life\\nhad indeed curtailed this liberality, but his friends\\nwere always ready to help him with purse and ser-\\nvice so much had he won upon the esteem of his\\nassociates. I must now relate the tragical affair in\\nwhich he was the victim.\\nHaving obtained permission to go on a hunt\\nwithin a couple of miles of the town, where deer\\nabounded, he proceeded to the gate early in the\\nmorning, accompanied by his wife to that point.\\nThere a sad presentiment seized her and she could\\nscarcely be prevailed upon to part from him. He,\\nhowever, managed to slip through the gate and had\\n7", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nit closed against her. Taking the Camina del Eej\\nhe then turned into the forest and palmetto\\njungles. He had not gone far when he was en-\\ncountered by two Indians, one of whom, whether\\nin earnest or not, levelled a gun at him. With\\nintrepidity, the Spaniard cocked his gun, and the\\nnext moment the Indian fell dead. The other\\nIndian on seeing this fled with all speed.\\nAll thoughts of game for the present were out of\\nthe question, so Corello returned in haste to the\\ngate. Franchita had not retired far, but sat on a\\nstone, weeping. Taking her by the hand he led\\nher homewards and as they walked he whispered\\nI wish I had stayed with you, Franchita, for I\\nhave shed the blood of an Indian in my defence,\\nHe there related to her the circumstance. She\\nhurried him on, saying Let us go at once to the\\nsenora she is kind to me and will listen to the\\ntruth as you have spoken it. Senora Juanita was\\nin the reception room when Franchita entered,\\nand, without preface, related what had befallen her\\nhusband. The senora replied The Indians are", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "CHRON ICLES OF FLORIDA. 147\\nrevengeful and may involve iis in war but it\\nwould be better thus, than to truckle to them espe-\\ncially in a case where your husband was so clearly\\nin the right. When Don Diego was called in and\\nthe matter reported, turning round, he looked up\\nat Corello. So, caraJto, you have transcended your\\nduties! You have murdered an Indian I Fine\\nhunter, indeed, to shoot a man instead of a deer.\\nDo you intend to bring the Indians upon us Ten\\nchances to one you will not shoot them as truly as\\nyou did the one this morning. If the worse comes\\nI will hang you in chains. Alas said the se-\\nnora, forthe sangre azul j alas! for the descen-\\ndant of the Compeador.\\nEarly in the evening the governor retired, or\\nrather was borne to bed in profound intoxication.\\nThe night was dark and about the hour of ten a\\ndrizzly rain began to fall. The town was well\\ndefended on the land side by a deep moat and re-\\ndoubts, which extended from Fort San Marco on\\nthe east to Saint Sebastian, a creek on the Avest, and\\nwas entered only by a single gate. From the fort", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "148 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nand vvall extended three parallel streets, one along\\ntlie water wall, another from the gate passing by\\nthe palace, and the third lying between them.\\nFronting the palace is the plaza which interrupts\\nthose three streets for an interval.\\nIn consequence of the rain, the sentinels posted\\nnear the gate took shelter within the boxes.\\nAwhile after, certain strange, grating sounds and\\nblows were heard against the gate from the out-\\nside. Greatly alarmed, intelligence was at once\\nsent to the governor, who when aroused, ordered\\nthe general alarm to be beaten which called the\\nwhole soldiery and volunteers to be put under arms\\nto meet danger. Seco then Availed on the governor\\nand stated that while there were no real causes for\\napprehension, yet as the populace were so alarmed\\nit was necessary that his excellency should show\\nhimself in order to keep them from committing\\nsome act of folly in the panic in which they were.\\nHis excellency then said Lieutenant, you are\\nvery unfortunate you cannot see danger till it is\\ntoo late. You know one of our men murdered an", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 149\\nIndian; is it nofc plain they have now come to\\navenge his death I can indeed fight with civilized\\npeople, bnt don t like the murderous assaults of\\nthese scalping cannibals. I will, however, go tO\\nthe place, speak to the people and send them all\\nwith whatever weapons they can find to defend the\\ngate and the wall.\\nHe then ordered the war horse, Boracho, to be\\nbrought out by Jose. This horse had been chosen\\nfor no other quality than his size and the gentle-\\nness brought about by age and hard usage, and\\nperhaps, because small men are apt to choose large\\nwomen and large horses for what cause if not by\\ncontrast Together, with the horse, came the\\nmusic band, the standard bearer and the body\\nguard, with torches. The unmilitary portion of\\nthe citizens, a motly crowd, were ready to show\\ntheir zeal and to follow the governor. At last the\\nsenor appeared, supported by the lieutenant, when\\nthe band played the tune of Catalina de Liana.\\nTaking off his hat he ordered most of his escorts-\\nto pass on ahead. Seated on Boracho, by the aid.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "150 ClTROKICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nof Seco, to the joy of his rider the ill-natured\\nbeast would at first scarcely move. At length he\\n^whispered Lieutenant, I wish you would act in\\nmy stead, for I really feel very ill from my frolic.\\nDo let me take the repose I need. The only\\nanswer given was to prick Boracho slyly with a\\ndagger, when the beast started off in a heavy\\ngallop, to the great dismay of his rider. In this\\nmood he labored up the narrow street regardless of\\nthe crowd. Confusion reigned in his path the\\ntorches were scattered in various directions and the\\nmusicians silenced. Stop! Stop him cried the\\ngovernor, noAV encircling the horse s neck with all\\nhis strength. But an attempt to stop Boracho\\nonly made matters worse, by reminding him of a\\ndagger s point. As he drew towards the gate, the\\nterrors of the governor, and the consternation of\\nthe soldiers there, knew no bounds. A brief delay\\nmight have given the entire custody of the gate to\\nDon Diego and Boracho, for the soldiers were\\n:averse to attacks in front and rear at the same\\nmoment. However, when Boracho saw the way", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "CHRON^ICLES OF FLORIDA. 151\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2closed ahead having gone as far as he coukl he\\nsuddenly stopped and began leisnrely to crop the\\nweeds that grew on the side of the street. When\\nthe troops gathered around, full of curiosity to\\nlearn the cause of so hasty a visit, the governor\\ncould only ask Have you seen the enemy in\\ntones of alarm. On being told that they con-\\ntinued to hear strange noises at intervals, he mut-\\ntered That fellow, Oorella, will be the death of\\nus all yet. He had dismounted to readjust the\\nsaddle when Seco and the escort arrived. The\\nformer congratulated and praised him for the\\n.alacrity displayed in reaching the point of danger.\\nDanger groaned his excellency, do you really\\ndo you really think there is danger now?\\nWhile asking this the gate shook slightly, with a\\ngrating sound that startled the soldiery. This\\nwas enough for our hero. Remounting Boracho\\nwith such aid as he had, he ordered all to mount\\nguard till morning. As he put spurs to his horse\\nhe exclaimed Let us see if the enemy will now\\ndare show his face. He then wished in vain that", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "152 CHRON ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nhe might go down the street as fast as he had come\\nlip.\\nOn reaching his wife, he exclaimed 0,\\nJuanita The Indians are at the gate let ns hide-\\nonrselves. Tradition holds that Don Diego and\\nhis wife (for the first time mislead by him) hid\\nthemselves on this memorable night among some-\\ntall plants in the garden that twice they quar-\\nelled because they had drawn too near to each\\nother; that once Don Diego mistook her for an\\nIndian that finally both of them, terror stricken\\nat the entrance of Jose into the garden, had ac-\\ntnally jumped over the wall into the adjoining\\nmarsh where they remained in miserable plight\\namong a species of small crabs till morning. Some\\nmay think these relations are exaggerated. Let\\nthem think so if they will, yet these were the reve-\\nlations of personal witnesses.\\nAt early dawn a sentinel on tlie battlements-\\nof San Marco espied the cause of the night s\\nalarm. Close to the gate lay three or four\\ncows that had been shut out in the evening", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "CHKOKICLES OF FLOEIDA. 153\\ntheir attempting to gain admittance to their\\ncalves, was the cause of the panic now re-\\nvealed. The soldiers at the gate dared not look\\nover the wall during the night, so great was their\\nfear of Indian stratagems. The lieutenant had,\\nhowever, investigated enough of the matter to ex-\\npress himself without any apprehension of the least\\ndanger this not satisfying the senor, Seco\\nthought the whole too good a joke to be suddenly\\ninterrupted and in this he was encouraged by a\\nlady whom he had met on. the way to the palace.\\nThe governor returned in a pitiable plight,\\ncovered with mud, and on finding the true nature\\nof the nocturnal noises, resorted to a happy inven-\\ntion he declared that yielding to a strong desire\\nto make a personal investigation he had passed\\nover the wall into the marsh, determined to out-\\nflank the works of defence. His wife, of her own\\naccord had followed him saying that he should\\nnot perish alone in the public service. The tides\\nhaving recently been so high, they made but a\\nslow progress, sinking in the soft mud and quick-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "154 CHKOKICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nsand at every step, till the approach of day induced\\nthem to return. Under ordinary circumstances\\nthis would have been history.\\nA month precisely from this day, a vast number\\nof Indians made their appearance in the vicinity\\nof Saint Augustine. The warriors were tall,\\nathletic, well proportioned and went almost nude,\\nbut with Avarlike decorations of repulsive charac-\\nters. At this time of which I am treating, their\\ngood will was bought by the Spanish authorities\\nwith supplies of goods at stated periods. This\\nproved to be a bad policy and had the effect to\\nplace the sovereignty of the colony in abeyance,\\nand to subject the government to pay tribute at\\nthe dictation of a people known to be treacherous,\\nand never long satisfied.\\nAlmost with the news of their arrival, the chief,\\nwith a numerous retinue, came to the gate, without\\nfear, and demanded satisfaction for what he termed\\nthe murder of one of his men. To the lieutenant,\\nwho went out to meet him, he said in plain terms\\nthat he wanted blood for blood. Seco remon-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 155\\nstrated that it was now utterly impossible to iden-\\ntify the person who had done the deed; that it might\\nhave been done in self defence, and in either case\\nhe offered valuable presents to satisfy the friends\\nof the deceased. To this the chief gave no heed\\nbut averred that he could and would identify the\\nmurderer (if allowed to enter the place) who must\\nbe delivered and devoted to death, else the tribe\\nwould seek ample and multiplied vengeance. In-\\ndignant at the stern attitude of the chief, the lieu-\\ntenant was about to deliver an appropriate answer,\\nwhen the reflection came, that in strict military\\nsubordination, it was proper for the governor to\\nassume the responsibility of what might ensue from\\nthe conference.\\nWord was then sent to the colonial head that\\nthe Indian deputation awaited his presence at the\\ngate. In that moment Don Diego would have\\nfeigned sickness, but for the sneers of the senora\\nand the opinion she expressed that a bold demeanor\\nwas sure to prevail with the savages, who of all\\nthings admired a fearless temper. This, and a", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "156 CHROiq ICLES OF FLOKIDA.\\nconsideration of his various mishaps of late, came\\nto the aid of a desperate resolve, and turned the\\nscale of his deliberation in an evil lionr he decided\\n:to meet the chiefs. Previous to this time, Don\\nDiego had always so contrived matters as to avoid\\nbeing present at the numerous conferences held\\nivith the Indians during the past years of his gov-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ernment, but had always confided the task to Seco,\\nor some other officer, and as the Indians liad never\\nbeen permitted to enter the town he had only had\\nglimpses of them at a distance. In fact, he esteemed\\nthem only as ferocious wild beasts..\\nBoracho was brought out fully caparisoned for\\nthe occasion, and Don Diego at length approached,\\nfantastically dressed and armed to the teeth. Now,\\nwhen assisted to the saddle, his attitude was in-\\neffably droll and grotesque. The decorations and\\naccoutrements on a person of his dimension and\\nsymmetry (the more so when seated on so large an\\nanimal) gave him the air of a very buffoon. Now,\\nplacing his body in a half bent posture, and clasp-\\ning the bridle and mane, he ordered Jose to lead", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2CHROKICLES OF FLORIDA. 157\\nTBoracho, and moved off attended by a strong armed\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2escort under lieutenant Seco. In the pride of his\\nmartial attitude and surrounding, his excellency\\n^dilated his chest, and said with exultation, Ah\\nthe savages will find they have no child to deal\\nwith. In the next moment, he added I wish\\nthey were a thousand leagues off. Then he whis-\\npered to Seco Suppose they should take it into\\ntheir unreasonable heads that I am the murderer\\nHe seemed pacified when told there was no fear of\\nsuch a silly mistake.\\nArrived at the gate, his resolution gave way on\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2one pretense or another he would have turned back.\\nAt one time he had forgotten a present for the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2chief, then again he had not bid adieu to the se-\\nnora, and to sum up all, in truth, in very truth,\\nbecause he felt indisposed. Seco gave him some\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0drink and prevailed upon him to proceed. Seeing\\n110 Indian when the gate was opened, he plucked\\nup courage and rode out, not forgetting to give di-\\nrections, should he ride back in haste, that the\\n;gate should be immediately thrown open for his\\nentrance.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "158 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nOn reaching the camina real, he saw the chiefs\\nat a short distance off. The nudity and determina-\\ned air of these grim savages alarmed him much\\nand he exclaimed They are dangerous wild\\nbeasts, cannibals nay, very devils. 0, my fate\\nWhy should I be brought here to be scalped and\\ndevoured He then struck spurs to his horse and\\nwould have lumbered back to the gate had not\\nJose and Seco interposed. Get away, he cried to\\nJose, are you also against me Just now three\\nof the chiefs, who had separated from the others,\\ncame down fearlessly into the midst of the Span-\\niards. Wlien Don Diego saw them he was nearly\\nparalyzed by fear and gave up all attempts to\\nescape as entirely useless. One of the chiefs asked\\nof the interpreter to point out the great white\\nchief and when this was done the chiefs clapped\\ntheir hands, exclaiming: Sticky! Sticky! and\\nrushed to the place where he still sat on horseback.\\nThe old chief caught him by the hand, in courtesy^\\nwhen Don Diego, aroused to desperation, endeavor-\\ned to escape and called upon the men not to desert", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLOEIDA. 159\\nhim. Seco hailed him to take care how he offended\\nthe Indians, who were there too few to be danger-\\nous with impunity, and the governor reluctantly\\nyielded and returned the salutations. The old\\nchief then turned round to the interpreter and\\nobserved If your great chief is no bigger in\\nsoul than in body he is little indeed. I would not\\nhave dwelt so long on the tiresome narrative of\\nsuch a scene but that a faithful record demands\\noccasional pictures of the officials sent out into the\\ncolonies officials that were commissioned through\\nbribery, not for merit.\\nAs an immediate sense of danger wore off, the\\narrogance and pomposity of Don Diego increased\\nin proportion, till the chiefs reminded him of the\\nvisit. Give me, said the principal chief, give\\nme the guilty man that I may slay him, and I will\\nsmoke the pipe of peace with the little great chief;\\ndeny this and the tomahawk is unburied. When\\nhis excellency saw the features of the chiefs lower-\\ning and knew their fixed determination, his fears\\nonce more returned and he answered Don t be", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "160 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nangry, gentlemen, we are all friends I am your\\nbest friend. I say, with you, the guilty person\\nought to be punished, killed. What right had he\\nto interrupt our friendship But you know I have\\na vast, a great number of warriors here a great\\nmany great warriors then, how can you find out\\nthe guilty person among so many The chief\\nreplied If they were so numerous as the leaves\\nof that tree, pointing to a pine, he shall be\\nfound. If that be the case you should not be so\\nangry, said the governor, I agree to deliver the\\nman if he be detected. Beware, interposed the\\nlieutenant, how you promise lest it be rashly\\ndone. Do you wish these- savages to eat us up,\\nlieutenant Better to die all, than give up one\\ninnocent person, replied Seco, with indignation.\\nYou may say so, his excellency said, but my\\ndecision is made up. At all events, the Indians\\ncannot indicate the same person twice, I will\\nmanage to cheat them. The sincerity of the lieu-\\ntenant gave grave offence to his superior, who soon\\neent him to the frontier to inspect the defences and\\nreport on his return.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "CHRON ICLES OF FLORIDA. 161\\nAccording to agreement made, an Indian accom-\\npanied by three chiefs was introduced into the fort\\non the next day. The force of the garrison was\\nparaded in lines in the open court. At a signal\\ngiven the Indian ran along the lines twice and\\nsingled out Francisco Oorrella. This Indian\\nproved to be the one who had run away after the\\ndeath of his comrade. The governor then\\nfeigned that he was not satisfied, and that Fran-\\ncisco could not have been the person who shot the\\nIndian. The witness maintained his point with\\nvehemence, in which he was also supported by the\\nchiefs who charged the governor with want of\\ngood faith. Well, come again to morrow, and if\\nyou point out the same person I will believe you.\\nThe next morning Francisco being thoroughly\\ndisguised and placed in quite another position,\\nawaited his singular trial. The Indian this time\\nran along the ranks but once, and again pointed\\nout Francisco. The governor thought he could\\nnot refuse the chiefs the retaliation they demanded.\\nSo with no just regard for the lives of those en-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "162 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\ntrusted to his care and with the worst policy in\\nthe workl, he ordered Francisco to prepare for\\ndeath. A few minutes only were allowed him to\\nconfer with the priest. He was then lead to the\\nramparts where the Indians stood with loaded\\nmuskets awaiting his coming. He then spoke to\\nthe priest Franchita knows I am innocent. Tell\\nher my last regret is to die without having seen\\nher. Yet it is perhaps best she is spared this\\nsight. Adios comarados He knelt, a command,\\na few reports of musketry followed, and Francisco\\nwas no more.\\nAs he fell the Indians rushed forward to scalp\\nhim. Then, and not till then, the superstition of\\nthe governor stronger then his fear, impelled him\\nto interpose between the lifeless corpse and the vin-\\ndictive malice of the savages. Hold hold he\\nexclaimed, yow have taken his life I claim his\\nbody. He must receive a Christian burial The\\nIndians received presents and returned homewards\\npraising the justice of the little great chief, only\\nregetting that they bore no bloody trophy of their\\nrevensre.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 163\\nWere I writing a romance I might here depict\\nthe grief of Franchitii, but think it is best to leave\\nit to the imagination, with the brief remark that\\nshe survived not the spring flowers indeed a\\nwithered flower, and its accompanying bud were\\nliarshly cropped by death.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\n|HE next winter was perhaps the severest ever\\nwitnessed at this 23lace it commenced on the\\nnight of the 23rd of December, with so very\\nsndden a fall of temperature as took the people\\nby surprise and totally unprepared for the intense;\\ncold. Up to that night the weather had continued\\npleasant and rather Vv^arm, indeed almost like sum-\\nmer, so much so that the fair sex went about of\\nevenings in light clothing, with bare necks, but\\nstill adorned with flowers and fire bugs (cuchillos)^\\nBut about midnight the northwest wind blew in\\nforce and before morn water was frozen to the\\nthickness of a dollar (pesos). Tlie suffering of the\\npeople became great for want of fuel and clothing\\nmoreover unaccustomed to stand a low degree of\\ntemperature, and the piercing wind which accom-\\npanied it, they were forced to abandon the fisheries\\n164", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 165\\nand indeed all work in the open air, and kept close\\nat home in a sort of a stnpor, mnffled np to the\\nl3est of their ability to screen their persons. In\\nthis emergency the venerable priest with a conple\\nof other ecclesiastics, the physicians of the post,\\nand other charitable persons, came to the front as\\nChristians always do in the distress of a commn-\\niiity, nor did they avoid yielding all assistance in\\ntheir power.\\nSince the terror, for it was no less, caused by\\nthe Indians had ceased, Don Diego only experienced\\nthat another and still worse had sprnng np in its\\nplace with redoubled force, for it was ever present\\nwithin and around him. True the Indians had\\ndeparted in peace, and well pleased, but now the\\nfears of a supernatural Avorld, that slackened not\\na moment overwhelmed him. Day or night, awake\\nor asleep, the name of Erancisco sonnded in his\\nears. No greater injury could be inflicted upon\\nhim than to pronounce that inauspicious name,\\neven when calling an individual to whom it rightly\\nbelonged. Added to this, the padre, like another", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "166 chroinTicles of Florida.\\nNathan, had, after some deliberation and hesita-\\ntion, privately upraided him for the heinous deed\u00c2\u00bb\\nHe wonld have shunned the presence of the lieu^\\ntenant, who evidently abhored the late tragedy^.\\nhad not his own mental inability rendered it neces-\\nsary when that officer had returned, to surrender to-\\nhim much of the business of the government. At\\nhome as well as abroad, his excellency found no-\\nrest. The senora, however vain glorious she had\\nbeen of i^ower, conkl not but express her horror\\nand deep detestation of the act; nor did she rest\\neven there, but taxing her memory, she unburied\\nthe hidden things of the past, his various derilic-\\ntions of duty, his meanness of soul and cowardice..\\nShut out, then, from what might have proven his\\nchief source of solace the bosom of his Avife the-\\nworld was a barren waste before him no flowers of\\nhope grew there, the future loomed instead and in\\nview, dark, boding and fearful. He only looked\\nfor the lightning gleam of approaching wrath.\\nWas there no one who might sooth his feverish\\nagony 0, for a Lazarus to give him a drop of", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 167\\ncold water! During the crisis, Jose, yes, the\\nfaithful Jose, alone in all the Avorld stood by his\\nside. He had shared the prosperity of his master,\\nand now, in the days of his affliction, stood closer\\nthan a brother.\\nFor several months the relations of the colony\\nremained peaceful. A severe though not fatal epi-\\ndemic prevailed in the place it began with the\\nsudden seizure of pain in some joint and after a\\nfew days of racking fever, left the persons attacked\\nunhurt. During the summer, fearful thunder\\nstorms occurred. Scarcely three days passed away\\nwithout noises like close cannonading followed by\\nthe rattling of unnumbered chariots overhead.\\nDuring the summer a fev/ deaths took place by\\nlightning, but the trees in the vicinity were struck\\nin innumerable instances.\\nOn All Souls Day, the tolling of the church\\nbell had commenced, and many who had lost\\nfriends during the year, as they passed through the\\nYestibule, seized the bell-rope, each in turn, and\\ntolled according to the number of the departed", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "168 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nwhom tliey wished to commemorate. It was on\\nthis occasion the crowd at the door gave away as\\nDon Diego, pale, emaciated and dressed in sombre\\nhabiliment, entered. He would have tolled the\\nbell, when a rough voice startled him, saying:\\nAway with your sacriligious hands. Then an\\nindividual stepped up, seized the rope, and tolled\\nthe bell, solemnly emphasizing the words Eest\\nto the soul Corella! Rest to the soul of Franchita!\\nDon Diego recognized the father of Franchita he\\nswooned away and was carried out of the church.\\nAYhen the governor had recovered from the\\nshock, he resolved, against the strong interces-\\nsion of Jose, to issue a process against the old man.\\nThe latter had just reached home when a file of\\nsoldiers arrested him. He was brought to an au-\\ndience. You stand accused of an assault on his\\nexcellency, this morning, said the secretary,\\nwhat have you to answer against so grave a\\ncharge The prisoner, fixing his eyes on the gov-\\nernor, replied I am a man, your excellency, and\\nthe feelings of a man and father urged me to what", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 169\\nI did. In the heat of the moment I thought that\\nthe slayer of my children meant to toll their knell,\\nand I could not brook the action. How dare\\nyou, interposed the governor, how dare you term\\nthe commander-in-chief the slayer of your chil-\\ndren The prisoner paused awhile as if to collect\\nhis thoughts, then said There was a man, senor,\\nunder your authority; one of undoubted bravery,\\nwho would have sacrificed his life in your defence\\none, though poor, of undoubted honor and integrity\\nwhose word was never called into question one, in\\nwhose veins coursed the royal blood of Cordova.\\nHere the old man hesitated, and Don Diego, with\\nimpatience cried, go on go on Such a one\\nthen, your excellency, was shamefully delivered\\nup to be murdered by the Indians, to the eternal\\ninfamy of the Spanish name. And why Because\\nthe Indians, jealous of the lives of their people,\\ndemanded it and because the flag floated over\\ncowards, who were not actuated by a simular regard\\nfor the lives of those they should protect. Don\\nDiego taken by suprise, and the force of words\\n8", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "170 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nspoken from the heart, hung down his head, while\\nthe prisoner proceeded His death brought on\\nthat of my daughter. Let mine follow, too, how\\nsoon I care not. For what can now bind a friend-\\nless old man, an outcast in a foreign land, to a life\\nof sorrow Finish now the work, I have said.\\nEnough enough shouted the governor, away\\nwith him to dungeon As they led the prisoner\\nout, he drew back and said The day of retribu-\\ntion will come on you, on Spain, not at once yours\\nfirst. Then another flag shall wave on poor Fran-\\ncisco s grave. Francisco, always Francisco,\\nmuttered the governor how his eyes glared\\nThen the prisoner was delivered to Seco, with\\nthe order for his close confinement within the dun-\\ngeon, on the charge of being dangerous to the\\ngovernor. The dungeon lay beneath the north-\\neastern bastion of the fort, was filled with damp\\nexhalations and infested with filth and vermin.\\nWhoever was there detained for a length of time\\nwas sure to loose health, if not life. As Seco led\\nin the old man, he whispered Courage I will", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLOEIDA. 171\\nwork for your speedy deliverance from any other\\nfare than mine. In the meantime one night must\\nbe spent within the dungeon, lest I incur the dis-\\npleasure of the governor to-morrow, simply give\\nme your promise not to attempt an escape. Corella\\nwas my friend. The prisoner was then led into\\nthis tomb of the living, and when the massive\\ndoors were closed he was involved in impenetrable\\ndarkness and unwholesome stench. Is it thus that\\nman treats his brother the image of his Clod\\nThe lieutenant kept his word the next morning,\\nbut though the prisoner was allotted a good private\\nroom, he had contracted a fever from which he re-\\ncovered with difficulty.\\nLet us now return to other events. Two ship-\\nwrecked voyagers had arrived at Saint Augustine\\nabout this time, of whom I must write.\\nJuan de Alvarado, of a noble ftimily of nuevos\\nCkristianos, having received a commission from the\\nCaptain-General to repair forthwith to Florida, on\\nimportant business, the purport of which Avas not\\neven known to those in the confidence of that", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "172 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nofficer, embarked on one of tliose small vessels\\ncalled guar da cost as, as the only cliance imme-\\ndiately at hand. His effects and servants were to\\nfollow in December, when the nsual supplies for\\nthe military station of Saint Angustine were to be\\nforwarded. The Pintado, guarcla costas, mounted\\na small gun at her bows and had a compliment of\\neleven men, besides three passengers Alvarado, his\\nservant, and an ecclesiastic, the Padre Trello.\\nTwelve hours after leaving the Moro Castle, head\\nwind begau to impede her progress, though now she\\nhad entered the powerful current of the gulf.\\nEarly on the next morning a vessel, ajDparently of\\nthe same class, was spied in the distance, bearing\\ndirectly down on their course, with the wind in\\nher favor. The stranger bore the Spanish ensign\\nand as no suspicion was at first entertained regard-\\ning her character the Pintado kept on her way.\\nBut not long afterwards the captain, going aloft,\\nannouced fears that the stranger was a well armed\\npirate and immediately gave orders to bout ship\\nand run back under a full press of canvass for the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 173\\nHayannali. The pirate, for so she proved, saw the\\nmoyement and also increased her sail and speed,\\nthe latter being far superior to that of the Pintado*\\nIn a few minntes the pirate ran np the black flag\\nand began to discharge her guns with fearful pre-\\ncision. All chance of escape being out of ques-\\ntion, the Pintado hove to for action with the re-\\ndoubtable piratical cruiser, the Bloodsucker, com-\\nmanded by a desperado nicknamed The Sea\\nTiger Tigre de la Mar). The crew and passen-\\ngers of the Pintado fought well, as men deter-\\nmined to sell their lives at the highest price, but\\nshe was soon boarded and carried by the pirates.\\niVlverado and his servant were both wounded,\\nthough not seriously, and they and a few other\\nsurvivors, including the padre, were put under\\nguard while the vessel was being pillaged. The\\nSea Tiger had lost several of his boldest men in\\nthe combat, and according to his custom, made\\nproclamation of favor to all prisoners who would\\nwillingly join his crew. Alvarado, who stood near\\nhis servant, advised him, in a language not under-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "174 CHRON ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nstood by the pirates to accept the terms. For,\\nadded he, we may have a chance to escape, or\\nafter all, we can but die by blowing up the whole\\nconcern. So these two consented and were forth-\\nwith sent off to the Bloodsucker, leaving behind\\nfive of their comrades who had survived. The Sea\\nTiger was heard to say to them, with the most sin-\\nister and malicious expression, with the ferocious\\nvoice of the devil within his breast You hesi-\\ntate; you deliberate it is is too late the manes\\nof my brave comrades cry against you! I will\\nnot polute my page with the relations of the cruel\\ninventions of the pirates, to increase and intensify\\nthe sufferings of their victims. The padre seemed\\nby account to have risen to the dignity of a prophet\\nbefore his death. Incarnate demons, said he,\\nlook not for your punishment from man. Such\\natrocious monsters will not be permitted to live\\nmuch longer to jDollute the face of nature. Your\\npunishment will be sudden yet with my latest\\nbreath I call upon you to repent. Eepent After\\nthe work of butchery and pillage was done, the\\nPintado was scuttled and left to her fate.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 175\\nThe wind having shifted in the meantime, the\\nBloodsucker reversed her course for the northward,\\non the lookout for an expected prize. But the next\\nday a dead calm ensued off the banks of the Bahamas\\nand the ^ils hung loosely on the masts. Alvr.-\\nrado, feigning that his wound was more serious\\nthan the reality would justify, sat leaning on the\\ntaffrail. He could see the bottom of that clear and\\ntransparent sea and fishes that gambolled below the\\nvessel. Neither the dolphins, the pilot fish, nor\\nthe shark, nor yet the flying fish that took to the\\nair could divert his mind from the awfulness of\\nhis present situation. He had heard relations of\\ncruelty that almost curdled his blood, and at any\\nmoment he might be called upon to be initiated in\\nbarbarity. He wished to have access to the maga-\\nzine he longed for it.\\nIn the afternoon a terrible storm came up from\\nthe northeast, attended with terrific lightning and\\nthunder all sails were reefed and the helm was\\nlashed. The storm howled above, the waters roared\\naround. Now, in the midst of rolling billows toss-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "176 CHRON ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\ning on high with froth and spray, all seamanship\\nwas lost. The vessel yawned in every seam the\\nwater rushed into her hold. The cry was raised\\nthat she had sprung a leak; next, that she was\\nsinking. The crew, composed of such inferior\\nmen, became frantic through despair and the free\\nuse of ardent spirits all subordination had ceased,\\nall thoughts of a hereafter was merged in the\\npresent, the animal alone then survived the spiritual.\\nThe Sea Tiger then brawled out hoarsely in the\\nendeavor to restore order, but how vain. Some\\ngot the long boat ready to be launched, and in such\\na sea; others heaved goods overboard to lighten\\nthe ship but none could be got at the pump. The\\nvessel broached to; the sea broke over the\\ndeck and swept several men into a watery grave\\nutter helplessness now seized upon the Sea Tiger\\nhimself, he quivered in every muscle as he saw the\\nmen about to quit the vessel, impelled thereto by\\nmadness and drink. Alvarado had never seen a\\ncountenance like his, bad as it was before, in a mo-\\nment he was transformed into an image of the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "CHEOKICLES OF FLORIDA. 177\\ndamned. With a supreme effort he said Go who\\nwill, the Sea Tiger and Bloodsucker will go down\\nto the bottom of the sea together. Mistaken man,\\nanother fate was reserved for thee. The boat was\\nlowered on the lea side and the greater part of the\\ncrew jumped into her, to be engulfed immediately.\\nAs the cry again rose up, that she was sinking, the\\nrestTollowed with precipitation, without thought or\\nmotive, and threw themselve into the sea with such\\narticles as were calculated to buoy them up, but in\\nvain. While his comrades were being drowned\\naround him the Sea Tiger tied himself to the\\nmast.\\nThe only other persons now remaining on board\\nwere Alvarado and his servant, who had armed\\nthemselves and stayed in the cabin during the con-\\nfusion, being pursuaded that the great danger was\\nnot from the leak, which though alarming enough\\nmight have been delayed by the use of the pump,\\nbut through the panic which had seized the crew.\\nWhen the vessel was deserted Alvarado ascended to\\nthe companion way while the storm was still", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "178 CHEONICLES OF FLOKIDA.\\nhowling and the thunders pealing with little inter-\\nmission. Amid these, however, he thought he-\\ncould distinguish by the roar and dash of infuriated\\nbreakers, they were possibly near a lea shore. By\\na flash of lightning (for it was night) the position\\nof the Sea Tiger was revealed to Alvarado, who\\nsaid Wretch, either from the elements or from\\nme thou shalt receive thy doom. Spare me\\nspare me shrieked the pirate. That moment the\\nvessel struck the outer reef and came near broach-\\ning to, but the next surge bore her off and she\\nsettled upon the beach with a fearful convulsion.\\nA vivid flash of lightning, an overpowering shock\\nsucceeded, the mast was shivered and the Sea Tiger\\ngone to his account. Fractured in every seam, the\\nvessel would soon have been swept to pieces had\\nnot the winds and the waves abated with a veering\\nof the former for the land. The two remaining\\nsurvivors from the vessel then escaped to the shore.\\nOn the next day, having buried a large amount of\\nmoney and valuables, which they had found on\\nboard, taking some provisions with them they", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OP FLORIDA. 179\\nstarted for the northward. The body of the Sea\\nTiger was left still tied to the shivered mast, the\\nprey of carrion birds.\\nOur travellers were now on a long sand bank,\\nvarying from half a league to a league in breadth,\\nwhich separated the sea on the east from a lagoon\\ninterspersed with low mangrove islands on the\\nwesi;. Abut three or four leagues on their journey\\nthey found a canoe which had drifted to the shore\\nof the lagoon. Gladly they set about getting ma-\\nterials to caulk her that they might cross to the\\nopposite shore in search of water. When they\\nhad gone over they found there a long island which\\nstill intervened before the main land could be\\nreached. There search for fresh water proved fruit-\\nless. Ee-entering the canoe, with excessive thirst\\nand fatigue, they still paddled on into an inextri-\\ncable maze of mangrove islands, or rather (as\\ncalled) keys, in whose confasion the course was lost\\nand the travellers were compelled again to seek the\\nsea beach and abandon the canoe. AYeary and faint\\nthey dragged along with no prospect to allay their", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "180 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nburning throats. A cape appeared ahead, Alvarado\\nhad just presence of mind left to notice that the\\nbank widened considerable to the westward and\\nwas probably connected there to the main land.\\nWithout reflecting further he turned to the left,\\nwhile the servant slowly followed. A short dis-\\ntance revealed quite a large pond of fresh water\\ninto which the travelers rushed to slake their\\nthirst. In consquense of this over indulgence, a\\nsojourn in this place became imperative. After\\nthis, vv^hen the locality was reconnoitred, it soon ap-\\npeared that the sand bank adjoining the ocean was\\nindeed connected to the main land at tliis point by\\na very narrow neck which divides the lagoon on the\\nsouth from another on the north. Alvarado\\nresolved to travel along the main land, and after\\nexcessive privations met some fishermen who\\nkindly relieved the necessities of the travelers and\\nescorted them to the Tower ol iJatanzas, near the\\nBarra Ohica, The fishermen declared it was possi-\\nble to have obtained fresh water along the beach by\\nscooping out the sands a couple of feet below the\\nsurface in certain spots.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "CHROmCLES OF FLORIDA. 181\\nAt Sainfc Augustine, Alvarado appeared simply\\nin the character of a shipwrecked gentleman. He\\ntook care to write to the Captain General what had\\nhappened and request a renewal of his credentials\\nwhich had been lost on board the Pintado. Mean-\\ntime he entered into all the gaieties of the place\\nwith an assumed levity of manners. ]N ot a ball,\\nnot a party of pleasure, not a hunt occurred, but he\\nwas present as the leading spirit. He soon won\\nthe warm friendship of the lieutenant, whose own\\ngood nature and unsuspecting disposition led him\\nto see in the fascinating stranger only an embodi-\\nment of refinement and high chivalric feelings.\\nThere lived in the business portion of the town,\\na Jew, named Manasseh, vv hose business, in con-\\nnection with a mercantile firm in Havannah, was\\nto supply the station with stores and ammunition.\\nHe was of strict commercial integrity and business\\nhabits, in good repute with the Captain-General.\\nAlvarado had very naturally called upon him at\\nthe first opportunity when a mutual understand-\\ning subsisted between them for besides financial", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "182 CHEOKICLES OF FLOKIDA.\\naffairs to be transacted, Alyarado had fully con-\\nfided to his friend that he was of the stock of\\nIsrael and only a Christian outwardly, through pru-\\ndential consideration. As he spent most of his\\nleisure moments at the house of Manasseh, sur-\\nmises began to be made, that he had fallen in love\\nwith the Jew s daughter, and rumor in this case\\nwas more than half right.\\nJudith appeared to be about twenty-three or\\ntwenty-four years of age. Gifted with a high\\norder of intellect, in thorough literary training\\nand in strict subordination to refined moral feel-\\nings, she approached near to human perfection,\\nHer features were in unison with her mind singly,\\nnone could be called beautiful, but their united\\nexpressions of intelligence, benevolence and purity,\\nnever failed to fascinate the beholder. Graceful in\\nperson and action, with a soft, musical voice, her\\nvocation seemed like that of an angel of light on\\nerrands of mercy.\\nJudith had no suspicion of the inclination or\\nattitude of Alvarado till the day he formally offered", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "CHROKICLES OF FLORIDA. 183\\nher his heart and hand then she could have\\npolitely declined, but when, in the endeavor to\\nplease her, he avowed his religious faith, she could\\nnot hide her horror and detestation of such dissim-\\nulation. You cannot think, said she, that I\\ndescended from those who gave their lives to the\\nflames for the sake of principles, that I should\\nlink my fate with one holding your sentiments\\nHear me, Judith, he said, ere you condemn\\ntoo harshly. Some generations gone, my ancestors\\nunderwent the most cruel persecutions. Some\\nwere put to death, others were coerced to abjure\\ntheir faith. Their mouths pronounced the words\\nbut their hearts consented not. Eiches flowed upon\\nthem and they purchased power, though still in-\\ncurring the suspicion alike of Jew and Gentile.\\nSome few rose high in the Spanish monarchy and\\nwere thus enabled to shield their people from per-\\nsecution. These advantages resulted from their\\nconforming to a few external ceremonies, while in\\nall else the will was unshackled. I now find my-\\nself in this position not from my own doings but", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "184 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nfrom inheritance. Must I now abandon wealth,\\nfriends and titles to brave the flames Be it so,\\nif Judith wills it and will share her lot with mine.\\nBehold me, then, no longer the Spanish nobleman\\nJuan de Alvarado, but Moses ben Jacob\\nNeither will this avail your purpose, she re-\\nplied, for I am a Christian, not by profession\\nmerely, but from the heart.\\nTaken by sheer surprise, he knew not what to\\nsay for a while, at length he said Then Juan de\\nAlvarado is also a Christian for your sake.\\nUnprincipled man, she interrupted him, seek\\nelsewhere for a fit mate, for Judith can never be\\nyour bride.\\nHis eyes flashed with anger as he said Know\\nyou whom you have rejected You know my\\nname, now learn. I am governor of Florida. In\\na few days I shall be installed, when Judith shall\\nfind the result of her rashness. Till then beware\\nyou tell aught of what has here transpired.\\nIn the evening, Seco visited Juditli. A close in-\\ntimacy had subsisted between them for a consider-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "CHKO^ICLES OF FLORIDA. 185\\nable period, but contrary to v/liat generally hap-\\npens, it had given no cause for gossipping, for the\\nlieutenant was a general visitor among the ladies\\nof the place young or old, single or married\\nnone could complain of neglect. He was con-\\nsidered a military man who belonged to the\\nwhole sex none in particular. Nevertheless, Seco\\nand Judith loved each other with deep devotioue\\nThe open frankness of Seco, his moral rectitude,\\nand a certain community of thoughts had won the\\nheart of Judith. They now met, there was\\nnothing secret between them. Judith told him of\\nall that had transpired that day. In reply, the\\nlieutenant told her that he now perceived the cause\\nof many of Alvarado s inquiries concerning the\\ngovernment of Don Diego, adding that he was now\\nput on the guard against the new governor and\\nwould be circumspect towards him.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III,\\n^iT#HE Santa Fe settlement, as its designation\\nil imports, was composed of a number of small\\nhaciendas, in supporting vicinity. The peo-\\nple were generally quiet and orderly, and quite a\\nnumber of them were French, who had remained\\nunder the Spanish flag since Florida had been\\nceded back. Because they had contrived to main-\\ntain peace with the Indians in the neighborhood,\\nand had themselves been orderly towards the\\nauthorities, they were treated rather with con-\\ntumely than harshness. Still there remained with\\nthem a fixed determination to migrate, not to\\nFrance from which they considered themselves\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2exiled but to some more congenial country and\\nsympathising people. Lately, as we have seen,\\ntheir number was somewhat increased by a few who\\nhad come from Pensacola. When word was brought\\n186", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 187\\nto one of these last, of the unhappy condition of\\nDon Diego, he arose and said I will take my\\nstaff and go to him with words of consolation, for\\nwho can sympathise with him more than I\\nThree persons had already gone to Saint Angus-\\ntine, and now he was accompanied by three more.\\nFranchita s father was liberated and invited to\\nthe governor s honse. Don Diego spoke feelingly,\\nthus: I repent having ordered the death of\\nFrancisco. Would that I could recall the deed\\nAll that now remains is repentance. I now beg\\nyour pardon, before all, for the harm I have done\\nyou. Grant it, and I will be to you in your old\\nage instead of son and daughter. The old man\\nextended his hand to the governor, saying O,\\nsenor, forgive me, also, for having offended you.\\nFor a month that his excellency continued in\\noffice after this, it was the observation of all per-\\nsons, that a notable change had come over him.\\nWhen reviled by his wife, he opened not his mouth,\\nuntil tired of offending one who did not resist, she", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "188 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nresumed her obligations and affections. Eesigning\\nall military affairs to Seco whom he learned to re-\\nspect and esteem, nay, to adopt as a son and his heir\\nlie walked among the people like a father In the\\nmidst of his children. He was ever easy of access\\nand administered justice with kindness. Hence-\\nforth, to the surprise of his intimate friends, death\\nhad no terrors for him, and in this manner his\\nmoral courage was confirmed beyond all doubt.\\nPeace and humility marked his footsteps.\\nIn December, Alvarado s equipage arrived, to-\\ngether with the document that installed him gov-\\nernor of Florida. Immediately he proceeded with\\nwhatever show of parade he could command to the\\nfort and demanded the keys of Seco, but that\\nofficer very justly deferred doing so until he should\\nhear from Don Diego, when he would give the\\ncustomary salute to the new governor in recogni-\\ntion of his authority. Irritated, however, beyond\\nendurance, Alvarado lavished threats and abuses\\nagainst Seco, but seeing he could not prevail upon\\nthat officer to commit a breach of discipline, he", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 189\\nproceeded up to the palace. Don Diego had been\\napprised by these transactions and had already\\nmade ample arrangements, (with a few friends,\\nsome of whom had come from the settlement)\\nforthwith in a small vessel now ready to sail for\\nCadiz. Though Alvarado, on his entrance, behaved\\nvery insolently, Don Diego extended every courtesy\\ntowards him and immediately issued a proclama-\\ntion announcing the change of officers.\\nIn the meantime the vessel had dropped down\\ntowards the bar, awaiting the arrival of passengers.\\nThe wind favorable and tide would soon serve.\\nAlvarado spent some time in examining the papers\\nwhich had been delivered to him. In doing this\\nhe came to a list of persons who had been con-\\ndemned to the dungeon for various crimes and\\nmisdemeanors, and suddenly he arose, exclaiming\\nThat is the proper place for him he shall go\\nthere. He then sallied forth bent upon sending\\nSeco to prison.\\nNow he found no obstacles. The gate was im-\\nmediately open and the garrison received him with", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "190 CHEONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nall military honors. His first inquiry Avas for\\nLieutenant Seco. They informed him that the\\nlieutenant had just left the shore in a boat to visit\\nsome friends, who were about to sail in the vessel\\nat the bar. As Alvarado looked over the parapet,\\ntwo boats were wending their way across the\\nwaters. It was a beautiful afternoon and the\\nmerry waters flashed like molten gold at every\\nstroke of the oars. What means all this, the\\ngovernor exclaimed, 1 see a lady in the boat.\\nThe reply was that Lieutenant Seco had accom-\\npanied Manasseh s daughter to the boat. If sud-\\ndenly blasted by lightning Alvarado could not\\nhave undergone a greater change. It was momen-\\ntary however. Fire a gun, he cried, as signal\\nto return. A gun was fired, some confusion was\\nobserved on board of the boats, so much so that\\nsome observed they were about to put back. But\\nonce more the oars were plied with redoubled\\nvigor in one boat while the other displayed her\\nsail and soon distanced her now heavily laden\\npartner. Alvarado raved at one time he ordered", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "CHKOKICLES OF FLORIDA. 191\\nthe batteries to be opened on the boats but he\\nsoon countermanded this. He then sent off\\nseveral messengers some to get boats ready\\nsome to enquire for Judith at her father s house.\\nHe was soon informed that she was not at home,\\nthat her father feared she had married and eloped\\nwith Seco.\\nThe boats being ready, Alvarado threw himself\\nin one and soon they were on the course of the\\nothers. By this time, the passengers, including\\nDon Diego and the senora, Seco and Judith,\\nFranchita s father and some three or four per-\\nsons from Santa Fe, had reached the vessel\\nin safety, and now that the tide served, sail\\nwas made for the bar. After thumping once\\nor twice in the channel she got over into\\nthe open sea and the pilots were dismissed.\\nShe was bearing under a fine breeze about half a\\nleague on her course, when Alvarado reached the\\npilots. Cursing their stupidity because they had\\nnot put back when signalled, he asked who was\\nwith Lieutenant Seco. They then confirmed the\\nfact that Judith was with him in his boat. They", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "192 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nstated that Don Diego and his party, who com-\\nposed the great majority in the pilot boat, ordered\\nthem not to obey the signals. Enough, enough!\\nshouted Alvarado, sail out to sea The sun was\\nnow setting; Alvarado s boat gained somewhat on\\nthe vessel, but it was judged hopeless to hold out\\nmuch longer, unless she would heave to. Alvarado\\nwas pale as a corpse. He stood up at the bow of\\nthe boat, waving a handkerchief. No regard was\\npaid to this and still the vessel held on her way.\\nOnce, and once only, the men thought they saw\\nthe waving of something white, from the stern.\\nAlvarado, who held a small spy-glass in his hands,\\ndropped it suddenly and his whole frame quivered.\\nHe murmured: This is too much; too much,\\nand with a leap, plunged into the sea and sunk for-\\never.\\nHaving disposed of their property in Spain, Don\\nDiego and Donna Juanita repaired to England,\\nfrom whence they recrossed the Atlantic to seek a\\nhome outside of the Spanish dominion, with Seco\\nand others, in the hope that liberty of conscience\\ncoiM be enjoyed in peace with God and man.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "BQDK III.\\nCHAPTER L\\nEULE AND MISRULE.\\n-^T^HE colony, now deprived of an executive\\n11 head, in the absence also of an officer next\\nin regular succession, fell in charge of a\\ncouncil held at the palace, by whom, after mature\\ndeliberation, the temporary rule was placed in the\\nhands of Marino Sanchez, then a private gentle-\\nman, but of good military reputation. He began\\nhis administration under rumors of great turbu-\\nlence among the savages of the interior, which\\nranged from Tampa Bay northward and even ex-\\ntended to the settlements. From the commence-\\nment of winter heavy rains had prevailed, which\\nsoon so flooded the immense low grounds that only\\nthe slightly elevated piney knolls appeared, like\\n9 193", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "194 CHKONICLES OF PLOEIDA^\\nislands in a watery waste. As a consequence, the\\nsubsistence of the tribes became precarious, and\\nimpelled by famine like prowling wolves they\\nmade inroads wherever they could secure a footing\\nor capture food. The settlers became greatly\\nalarmed. How to organize military movements in\\nthat impracticable country, especially at this\\nseason, or where to locate posts for protection, the\\ngovernor ad interim with all his known ability\\nfound to be beyond his means. He sought for in-\\nformation and advice in vain even the charts of\\nthe colony could not be depended on for even a\\npartial knowledge of the great interior. In this\\ndilemma he was told that the only person that\\ncould be of service to him was then in the town,\\nhaving been left behind by the late Santa Fe\\nvisitors. This person was represented as having a\\nmost extensive influence, not only where he habitu-\\nally resided, but over the greater portion of the\\ninland country, both among the whites and savages.\\nHis excellency, without the least delay, went to\\nvisit him. When Merceron rose to receive his", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "CHROJ^ICLES OF FLORIDA. 19 5\\nguest, there stood up one of the most remarkable,\\nif not the most august, personages of the age, with\\na look at once apt to strike the beholder with\\nawe and reverence. Though aged, as proclaimed\\nby long, flowing hair and beard, yet in strong con-\\ntrast his body exhibited the muscular development\\nof mature manhood coupled with the nimbleness\\nof youth. His mental faculties were both acute\\nand solid; his language, from a richly stored\\nmemory for words, was uttered with clearness and\\nprecision in a sonorous, manly voice. The history\\nof Merceron was singular Born of a noble family\\nof Normandy, a passion for sport in the open field,\\na thorough disgust for books, fostered by the\\nweakness of his mother, who ruled at the chateau,\\nkept his teachers from instilling in him methodical\\nlearning. At length by civil commotions, the\\ndeath and outlawry of his family, he was left when\\nstill quite young an orphan, not only without a\\nfriend or support but proscribed by sad heritage in\\nthe estimation of bigotry. In this strait some good\\nJesuits took him under their protection, whom, as", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "196 CHROKICLES OF FLOEIDA.\\nhe shirked all confinement to religious exercises, he\\nrepaid with personal services. Even from these he\\nwould have been dismissed on account of his stolid\\nwant of conformity but for an unaccountable par-\\ntiality on the part of the chief father, who always\\nmaintained there was some good in the lad. The\\nmission of the company extended to the coast of\\nMozambique and thither they led Merceron, who\\nby necessity and choice still followed out-door work\\npicking up information w^herever he could by inter-\\ncourse and observation. In time all the Jesuits\\nlearned to love Merceron for they could but observe\\nthat his actions were devoid of selfishness, his\\nchief delight being to minister to the poor, afflicted\\nand sick. Personally his great craving was to\\nadmire the true and beautiful in Nature, to ven-\\nerate the sublime in the works of G-od, for this\\nraised the mind beyond, to the Great First Cause,\\nand towards the attainment of moral worth. He\\nin after years ever spoke of the Jesuits with affec-\\ntion and profound respect. He parted from them\\nat the Cape of Good Hope on the return home-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 197\\nwards, but parted with mutual expressions of love\\nand good wishes, although they knew that he had\\nyielded to the inherent temper of his mind and\\nembraced the Lutheran faith.\\nHenceforth, without family or worldly ties, he\\nwandered at large, as he declared, a Protestant\\nJesuit, and in fulfilment of a vow he had made\\nin early life, that his efforts should be devoted\\nto doing good to man. Strange to say, from all that\\ncould be learned, in all his rambles, everywhere he\\nhad met with no serious mishaps, all dangers, all\\nobstacles, all intricacies seemed to have yielded to\\nhim as if he possessed a charmed life. In fact, he\\nhimself never faltered in the belief that he bore\\nin his person the motto of his family Shielded\\nby God, when in tlie line of duty, and thus he did\\nthings which in other men would be looked upon as\\nimprudent or rash. He ever wore next to his heart,\\na small black cross, from the time it was there\\nplaced by his friends the Jesuits, both as a gift and\\nan appropriate emblem.\\nHow a communion was maintained among so lit-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "198 CHRON ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\ntie a flock thus scattered in varioiis countries is\\nnow unknown, yet Merceron liad come to Florida\\nto seek out and confirm his countrymen of the\\nsame faith, who had remained behind after the ces-\\nsion to Spain. By them this apostolic man was\\njoyfully received everywhere, and everywhere while\\nministering in love, his wants were cheerfully min-\\nistered to. His fame, besides, was scattered over the\\nterritory among the Indians, and his person was\\nso well described in the tribes that he could visit\\nthem at any time and meet a welcome reception.\\nHis renown had this origin, dating back a few\\nyears: The most high and powerful chief in the\\npeninsula, while on a war path, saw Merceron ap-\\nproaching through the forest. From behind an am-\\nbush he aimed at the white man four arrows\\n(which having been conjured had never missed be-\\nfore). Each in succession stuck in the ground at\\nthe feet of the assailed, who deliberately stooped,\\npicked them up and carried them to the concealed\\nfoe, who stood now stupified, trembling and wor-\\nshipping. Henceforth, believed invulnerable and", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 191^\\nsacred, walking in goodness and mercy, no Indian\\ncould be prevailed upon to approach him but in\\nkindness, while he could go everywhere with im-\\npunity.\\nWhen, therefore, the acting-governor had made\\nknown his difficulites, and appealed for direction\\nor aid, Merceron undertook the task to attempt a\\npacification. He might have quoted what was\\ntaught at Salamanca, Veni Vicli Vici! for he\\nsucceeded in an incredibly short period and all dis-\\ncontent was removed in what mode is not revealed,\\nbut some averred, among other means of persuasion\\nhe indicated to the tribes from his superior know-\\nledge how and where to procure food where they\\ncould get unexpected supplies of molusks, how\\nterrapins could be raised from their hybernation,\\nwhen schools of fish would ascend the streams,\\ncalled attention to the palm-cabbage and a peculiar\\nbulb root, indicated where the deer would likely\\ngather during the freshet, how to set traps for birds,\\nand other matters.\\nThe pacification being effected; on the part of the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "200 CHRONICLES OF FLOEIDA.\\nIndians they were not to pass certain fixed boun-\\ndaries on the part of the government a certain\\nfixed supply of molasses should be sent to the\\nchiefs at stated periods. Merceron having returned\\nand reported to Senor Sanchez, that officer, thank-\\ning him for his services (for Merceron would\\nreceive no reward) cordially approved of all that\\nhad been done.\\nDuring the same interim, while awaiting advice\\nfrom Cuba, a courier arrived in haste with intelli-\\ngence still more alarming than the preceeding\\ntroubles with the Indians. He brought official\\nreports of marauders having penetrated from the\\nnorth into the country near Fernandina and the\\nmouth of the Saint John river and driven the set-\\ntlers before them. In the panic, which his excel-\\nlency simply pitied. Captain Santarem offered to\\nraise a volunteer company to go at once against the\\nEnglish invaders. No soldiers could be spared\\nfrom the fort, so this offer was accepted to allay\\nthe existing panic and to reassure the frontier\\nsettlers of protection. The patriotic ardor nay.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 201\\nmilitary ambition of Santarem was so buoyant,\\nthat he almost wished himself a thunderbolt to\\nreach the scene of action, and consequently hur-\\nried the departure of the force without proper\\npreparation, yet, as far as the men were concerned,\\nit was composed of rather good material, for the\\nrest it was poorly equipped and provisioned. San-\\ntarem, however, thought they could depend for\\nsupplies on the route and partly on the chase and\\nfisheries. Among other arms they carried quite a\\nnumber of rusty escojjefas to supply the settlers.\\nThe route extended from Palatka, at first by\\nboats down the river, and thence overland to a\\nblock house built of palmettos, as recommended by\\na Frenchman, near the frontier. On the river they\\nhad much sport with the alligators and sharks that\\nwere encountered on the way. The land travel,\\nchosen for greater secrecy, began and continued\\nwith many difficulties. The force passed through\\nsandy plains redundant of briars and thorny plants,\\nthrough stifling pine forests that dropped ticks on\\nthe person, through interlaced fallen palmettos", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "202 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nlying in inextricable maze and tied together by-\\nclinging vines. Beneath, were innumerable snakes\\nand other reptiles; above, the men had to fight\\nswarms of mosquitos and gnats without cessation.\\nAt last after sloAvly plodding, sore and harrassed,\\nthey arrived at the block honse, and even there\\nthey could not rest till it was somewhat cleared of\\nvermin and scorpions.\\nThe Captain sent out scouts in every direction to\\nfeel for the enemy. These were all infantry and\\nspent most of the time smoking their pipes.\\nRecently, however, a daring horsewoman had\\nvolunteered her services. Inez Campo, now aged\\n22 years, had been an orphan consigned to the cold\\ncharity of strangers, and trained from an early age\\nto woodcraft and the care of horses and cattle, yet\\nwith all this rough usage, her correct behavior,\\nfearless self-possession and refined feelings always\\ncommanded respect from her employers and others.\\nShe rode her accustomed horse in cavalier style\\nand showed to advantage, with a gracefully sym-\\nmetrical person, supple in every limb, a small", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "CHKO N ICLES OF FLOKIDA. 203\\nSpanish liut, a flowing mantle, a pistol and cutlass\\nby her side. But when, on nearer look, her large\\nblack eyes and perfectly chiseled month appeared,\\nno one could refuse the praise that she might be\\ntermed the Pride of Florida.\\nWithout hesitation, she rode directly into the\\ncamp of Captain Turner, the commander of the\\nEnglish force, waving as she came, a white scarf.\\nHe saluted her, courteously, and said Are your\\nwarriors women No, Senor Capitano, only\\none. To which he added, Then you are the first\\nand best of them. She simply remarked, You\\nflatter me. After a brief and rapid scrutiny the\\ncaptain asked, How can I serve so charming a\\nmessenger By avoiding the shedding of blood\\nand respecting the territory of Spain, she told\\nhim. After a pause, in deep thought, the reply\\ncame, I will give up all Florida for you. Are\\nthese your only terms said she. Captain Turner\\nthen very feelingly spoke: Yes, and honestly\\nmeant, if you will accept. To which she replied\\nPerform your part I will see you again, if you", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "304 CHKOmCLES OF FLORIDA.\\nare in the same mind. Without another word,\\nInez immediately turned her horse around, and\\nputting spurs dashed away through the forest.\\nWhat had transpired, her modesty would not allow\\nto be reported at headquarters, so she at once\\nretired home, resolved to abandon the life of an\\namateur scout.\\nOn the next morning she saw by the direction of\\nthe smoke that the English camp was on fire, and\\nsoon learned that its occupants had retired beyond\\nthe frontier. Thus Inez, who was the heroine of\\nthe campaign of a battle fought without bloodshed\\nvictorious, though now a voluntary prisoner\\nbecame in due time the wife of Captain Turner.\\nBut, like many other meritorious persons, her\\nlaurels won in military life were gladly appropriat-\\ned by those not entitled to them. Santarem\\nshowed himself an apt disciplinarian and diplomat-\\nist of the late governor s training by appropriating\\nall credit, whether due or not, to himself. By his\\ndictation his amanuensis wrote as follows to the\\ngovernment: A report of our advance in battle", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "CHR015ri\u00e2\u0082\u00acLES OF FLORIDA. 205\\narray having reached the enemy, he became very\\nalarmed, set fire to his works and retreated with\\nthe utmost precipitation. When the smoke of his\\ncamp was seen, we pressed on with ardor, hoping\\nto meet at least some stragglers whom we might\\nchastise. Our troops rushed forward shouting,\\nSantiago Fuego, fuego Ingleses, Ingleses\\nBut when we entered, not a soul remained, they\\nhad all deserted on the bold advance of Castile y\\nLeon. Yet it must be noted, though indications\\nof the new encampment of the enemy were dis-\\ntinctly seen at a spot about less than half a league\\noff, and though the line of the frontier was by no\\nmeans well fixed, Santarem would not pursue him.\\nAfter leaving about twenty men at the block house,\\nas a rallying point for the settlers, Santarem\\n.started on his march to town. Two or three hours\\nafterwards, the report of a gun, followed by the\\n:appearance of a deer .that bounded away from a\\nthicket, caused the commander to order the locality\\nto be instantly surrounded. The party came up to\\na very athletic man, who having just discharged his", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "206 CHRONICLES OF FLOEIDA.\\ngun, threw up liis hands in token of surrender.\\nHe proved to be an Irishman, Odomio (sic.) by\\nname, who had wandered from the marauder s\\ncamp and been lost in the forest during the past\\nday and night. The captain now exulted beyond\\nbounds for this capture of a prisoner of war to\\ngrace his triumphant return. He attempted to\\ntreat Odonno with studied arrogance and harshness\\nbut the latter received all with mirthful mimi-\\ncry, ludicrous remarks, or boisterous laughter.\\nWhen they had reached Saint Augustine, Odonno,\\nstill domiciled with Santarem for safe keeping and\\nsupport, his chief service consisted in bearing pre-\\nsents of fruits, fish, flowers and rose-colored billets\\nto a certain Senora Leonardo, a widow the\\naffianced of the captain. Some who were fond of\\na joke, said this was done in imitation of a re-\\nnowned demi-historical character Don Quixote\\nof whom the captain had heard in his youth, and\\nthat Odonno was deputed as a vanquished giant to\\npresent letters of love, composed by a hired scribe\\nin grandoliquent style, to the vast delight of the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 207\\nloYer. In a short time, through the patronage and\\nintercession of the priest, the Irishman was en-\\nlarged on parole and allowed to resort to such\\nprivate means of self support as presented, among\\nwhich was an engagement as pugilist no unneces-\\nsary office to the head gambler of the town.\\nSantarem, who habitually frequented the tables,\\nstill affected to regard the Irishman as a conquered\\nvassal even sd*far as on one occasion to kick him,,\\nthe latter immediately returned a well planted\\nblow, which not only disabled the captain but\\ndrew a profusion of blood. Parted for the moment,\\nOdonno was challenged to fight a duel to the death\\nat early dawn, the gambler, nothing loath, being\\nchosen for his second. The terms were simply\\nthat the parties should meet at the appointed place\\nand time, armed with sabres of their own respective\\nchoice, the combat to begin at sight. There was\\nin the establishment a sword said to have belonged\\nto a Knight of Malta and kept merely as an object\\nof curiosity; it was well tempered, heavy, of un-\\nusual length and breadth of blade, and few men", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "308 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nbesides Odonno could handle it easily. When\\nSantarem drew near the scene of combat he saw\\nhis antagonist approaching through the chaparal,\\nlike a tornado, before whom every object, bush and\\nbranch were flying through the air as the sabre cut\\naround, far-reaching and with great velocity. San-\\ntarem cast a glance at his own sabre, then at\\nOdonuo s, dropped his weapon and commenced\\nrunning away at full speed. The combat was over,\\nbut the news reached town before the principals.\\nOn arriving home, Odonno received an invitation\\nto call on the senora, who was anxious to learn the\\nparticulars of the combat, but he would say\\nnothing in disparagement of his antagonist. She,\\non the contrary, remarked He cannot now win\\nthe widow of a brave officer a lapunta de su espada,\\nat the point of his sword. To which he archly\\nasked, If he can t, can anyone else The reply\\nwas, You have never tried. He then declared\\nhis utter aversion to a marriage with her, but\\nthat, if she chose, he would give Captain Santarem\\na chance to retrieve his honor and gain her hand.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "CHROKICLES OF FLORIDA. 209\\nIn her fury she uttered many threats, and through\\nher influence, the result was another duel. In this\\nthe terms were that the combatants Avere to be\\nplaced at a distance of sixty paces and armed with\\npistols, to march towards each other at the word,\\nand fire at will and at any distance. Odonno. who\\nhad a good insight into human nature, after he\\nhad taken some twenty steps, stopped and delib-\\nerately aimed, which act Santarem imitated\\nand at once fired, without hitting the person.\\nOdonno, haying reserved his shot, marched up ta\\nthe captain and placing his pistol by his head for\\none brief moment, then lowering it said, with em-\\nphasis, Take your life and the old woman.\\nSantarem then said, Senor, your w^orship has\\nsaved my life three times, give me your hand.\\nHere it is, was the reply, and remember, an\\nIrishman carries his heart in his hand\\nThese occurences took place soon after a new\\ngovernor had been sent from Cuba. To the great\\nregret of the good people of the colony, the rule of\\nthe governor ad interim had proved of too brief a", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": ":210 CHROIs ICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nduration, for during its continuance good order\\nand security were maintained with consumate\\nability. The incoming governor had acquired a\\nrenown at Caraccas, in a career half piratical and\\nhalf banditti, that is by robbing the inhabitants\\nof their gold and silver plate and the merchants at\\n\u00c2\u00abea of their goods. He was overbearing, pompous,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0difficult of access by the people, whom he ruled\\nthrough his menials. He soon, however, gave place\\nto a successor, because the colony was not large\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0enough for his ambition. Very little of interest\\ncan be recorded of the public acts of the officers of\\nfhe place. The time was passed in a useless dis-\\nplay of rank and decorations, in festivities and\\nmilitary pageants.\\nIn the meantime the commerce of Florida was\\nmuch reduced, the exportations had almost ceased,\\nwhile the colony was merely held as an advanced\\nmilitary possession, whose chief supplies came by\\nthe way of Cuba. The principal inhabitants spent\\nmuch time in gambling, cock-fighting and danc-\\ning, yet, strange to say, in the midst of these dis-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "CHRO^^ICLES OF FLORIDA. 211\\nsipations drunkenness was rarely noticed. Gambl-\\ning led to a few assasinations at night, and rival ry\\nat the balls to a few duels mostly with knives\\nfor firearms were not fancied. Although the sea\\nwall was repaired and the fort well mounted, the\\npeople were under constant panics for fear of in-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2cursions by the English, who it was said, had\\nemissaries among the savages as reported by some\\ntraders, who under the rules and regulations of the\\nCouncil of the Indies, were licensed to traffic in\\nthe interior.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II,\\n]^0R want of better occupation, a spirit of\\nintolerance began to be manifested by the\\ngovernment, and once more was heard the\\ncry of hereticos, which it was believed had died out\\nwithin this sparsely peopled colony. Some invalu-\\nable immigrants thought proper, therefore, to make\\npreparation for a change of residence in order to\\nflee from threatened persecutions or confiscations\\nchief among whom was that apostolic man, Mer-\\nceron, who early foresaw the necessity to provide for\\nthe exodus of his little flock. The alarm increased\\nW hen it became known that a sharp lawyer, of a\\nclass that live by fomenting dissentions among\\nmen, had undertaken to institute prying investiga-\\ntions in the interest of the government and clergy~,.\\nand even now, like a venomous spider, was spread-\\ning his nets in every direction to catch his expected:\\n212", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 213\\nyictims. He was ready to act when quite a large\\nmargin of property was confided to his hands for\\nsale and transfer.\\nThe two men engaged for the survey of the\\nextensive Arredondo land, while awaiting for ad-\\nditional means and force, now boarded, in common\\nwith others, at the house of Pierre Menard,\\nsituated at the southeast angle of the plaza. In\\nthe capacious upper room of this large stone\\nstructure the proprietor kept his school during the\\nday, but at night it was strung with hammocks for\\na dormitory. Here, also, at stated periods met a\\nsmall coterie of choice spirits, whose delight was\\nmusic, recitations from French and Spanish authors\\nor other pastimes.\\nPierre Menard, a provincal by birth, was gifted\\nwith all the fire and much of the poetical ecstacy\\nof the Troubadours, but it was evident, from pru-\\ndential considerations, he ever maintained the\\ndignified restraint of the better class of Spaniards,\\nexcept, indeed, when in the midst of intimate\\nfriends. In early life forced to wander beyond the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "214 CHEONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nPyrenees, to travel he knew not whither, because-\\nhe would not yield to the dictates of the majority^\\nhe ever declared he had realized the blessing that\\nGod takes an especial care of strangers. Truly he\\nhad reached Florida in penury but with peace in\\nhis heart -and a Greek Testament in his pocket.\\nAfter teaching awhile, he succeeded in collecting\\nthrough various sources such works as those of\\nFlorian, Cervantes, Moliere and others. He was\\nsubject to a species of nostalgia whenever any of the\\nodes or lyrics of his native land was repeated in\\nhis presence; then no regal court, with all its.\\nnoblemen and beauties, could in his estimation\\ncompare with the shepherds and shepherdesses of\\nhis youth, no festivities, no enjoyments equal to.\\ntheirs. The following lines from Florian always\\nbrought tears down his rugged cheeks\\nYe beautiful trees that now remind me\\nOf those on which my hands inscribed Estella.\\nHe had been married for more than twenty years-\\nto the daughter of a French gentleman of Tomoka^\\nbut this lady, though one of the meekest and most", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 215\\nrefined of women, had nothing to remind him of\\nhis shepherdesses but the name of Ermine. They\\nwere the parents of two daughters and a son.\\nTheir society was peculiarly agreeable to those,\\nwho, like themselves, had drifted from their native\\nsoil. De Lerida became so passionately fond of\\nIsadore that he began to look upon himself as\\nalready adopted into the family.\\nOccasionally there came a few boarders whose\\nhabits or tastes were far from being acceptable, but\\nfor prudential considerations Menard could not\\nexclude all such. One of them was a Morisco,\\nnamed Safet, who had been the servant of Governor\\nAlvarado the other was an Italian, who proved to\\nbe a spy brought over by the present governor. In\\na moment of intoxication the Morisco had revealed\\nhis knowledge of a considerable treasure that\\nbelonged to him and was buried on the southern\\ncoast. But when he pointedly refused to share\\nwith Mancini, the latter made a report, with many\\nadditions, to the rapacious governor.\\nIn the dead hour of night Safet was taken out", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "216 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nof bed and conveyed to the dungeon of the fort\\nbut there no promises or threats could wring the\\nsecret from him indeed, no harsh treatment could\\nCrush the free born spirit of this son of the desert.\\nThe only admission they could ever gain from him\\nwas to this effect The treasure was buried by two\\njoint and equal owners, with the full understand-\\ning that at the death of either the survivor should\\ntake it all.\\nIncarceration in a place so damp and foul\\nbrought on sickne^ to Safet, and eventually im-\\npaired the use of his limbs. Being so disabled,\\nthe commander allowed him the tree air of the\\nopen court. Now, whether this was effected\\nthrough bribes or not it matters not, nevertheless\\nhis further liberation was by bribes given the\\nguards when he was taken out in the disguise of a\\nsick washwoman the wife of one of them. With\\nsecrecy, at nightfall, he was carried up the river in\\na canoe, and thence to the Oamina del rey there\\na conveyance was in readiness to convey him by\\nnightly stages to the hacienda of De Blanton, the", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "CHEONICLES OF FLORIDA. 217\\nfather-in-law of Menard, at Tomoko. The authori-\\nties of St. Augustine could find no clue to the\\nescape of Safet, except his iron anklets, some cast\\noff clothes and a pair of old shoes, adrift in a canoe\\nin the harbor.\\nThe residence of the Sieur Valverde de Blanton\\nwas situated in one of the most charming localities\\non the coast, haying a fine water prospect. The\\nhouse itself, with its many pillars supporting a\\nmoderately low roof, appeared embowered in the\\nmidst of immense oaks that bore long trails of\\ngrey mosses that waved in every passing breeze.\\nTo the right and left extended orchards of oranges,\\nlemons, figs and other fruit trees, separated from\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0each other by hedges of cactus and approached by\\nlong alleys of evergreens. Evidences of scientific\\nculture could be seen in the selection and arrange-\\nment of choice, botanical specimens, most of v\\\\^hich\\nwere indigenous.\\nHis pedigree, of which he never boasted, certain-\\nly extended to one of the Xorman conquerors of\\nthe Byzantine Empire, and besides, he was allied\\n10", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "218 CHKOKICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nby marriage to the liistoric family of Conde. This\\nlady, whom he tenderly loved, had died some\\nseventeen years past, leaving in his charge two\\ndaughters and a son. The domestic arrangements\\nof this family would have been entirely disrupted\\nhad it not been for the kind services of an elderly\\nhousekeeper who had followed its fortunes for\\nmore than thirty years and become endeared there-\\nin. Too much cannot be said of the self-sacrific-\\ning devotion of Celestina and of her enlarged\\nfaith. She was reputed as descended in the third\\ngeneration from one of the companions of Colum-\\nbus and the daughter of a cacique of Cuba. The\\nother persons now residing at the hacienda were\\nJose the slave of a late governor his wife and\\nsome three or four children.\\nAfter the retrocession of Florida to Spain, De\\nBlanton and other refugees still remained in the\\ncolony. His leisure moments were spent in the\\nstudy of metaphysics, natural history and me-\\nchanics in all of which he was by no means a mere\\namateur. Indeed, the exiles of this class who had", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "CHROJ^ICLES OF FLORIDA. 219\\npassed southward through Spain were, on the\\nwhole, people of moral worth and superior attain-\\nments. Many of them were scattered in this\\ncolony, where their orderly conduct, their retired,\\nindustrious habits, gained the tolerance, at least,\\nof the authorities for a long period.\\nAt a house in this vicinity, built of shell lime-\\niStone, but of only one story to avoid the frequent\\nstorms dwelt an Englishman, Glover, the husband\\nof the elder daughter of De Blanton, with an only\\ndaughter, Estella, now about eighteen 3^ears of age.\\nGlover s history was also singular rescued from a\\nwreck near Cartagena supposed, whether true or\\nnot, to have belonged to the fleet of Admiral Ver-\\nnon, long the dread of that coast and at so early\\nan age that he only recollected the name of Jack\\nGlover and a few English words, he was brought\\nup by Spaniards, so as to forget most of the past,\\nyet in all things else he was still English, which\\ndescribes him fully. What shall be said of Estella\\nbeloved and loving Estella\\nThough Safet had regained much of his health", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "220 CHROiTICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nit became very evident that his crippled condition-\\nwas permanent and would interfere with the use-\\nfulness of his person in any avocation. In grati-\\ntude he surrendered his right to the treasure to\\nthose who had saved him as a dear brother, on\\ncondition that he should be at their charge for the\\nbalance of his life. He then imparted to De\\nBlanton, Menard and Glover, the exact bearings\\nthat would lead them to the treasure. These men\\naccepted the trust with the proviso that the con-\\ntemplated migration and settlement should be\\npromoted, the feeble and old be assisted, the young\\neducated and the larger portion devoted in the\\ncause of civil and religious liberty freedom of\\nconscience.\\nA few Indians from the mainland came over at\\ntimes to this settlement, partly for the purpose of\\ntrade, but mainly through gratitude for past ser-\\nvices or the kind receptions extended to them by\\nCelestina. whom they venerated as princess born.\\nBut the most frequent visitor among them was-\\nPoetla, the chief of a small village, formerly situ-", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 221\\nated some leagues from Palatka, which had been\\nbroken up by. the Spaniards and its people driven\\ninto the interior by arms and bloodhounds Poetla,\\nwhen pursued, bleeding and wretched, in the last\\nthroes of despair had been rescued at great risk by\\nDe Blanton and Glover, and properly cared for till\\nhe could regain the tribe in their new hunting\\nground. The devotion of this Indian knew no\\nbounds.\\nAfter awhile, the search for Saf et proving useless,\\nthe government abandoned its further prosecution.\\nIt was then that Mancini conceived the project to\\nsecure the treasure for his exclusive benefit, but\\nbeing of great credulity and very superstitious, he\\nknew no better plan than to seek the conjuration\\nof one of those negresses, so common in the colonies\\nthe reputed adepts in African mysteries and\\noccult practices. She lived in seclusion, as usual\\nwith her class, in a spot rather difficult of access,\\non the sliores of the Mari-Sanchez. This woman,\\nafter many incantations with a black cock, a black\\ncat, a black snake and a carrion crovv^, at length", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "222 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nresorted to disgusting jugglery with more revolting\\nobjects. In conclusion, slie declared that awful\\nspells had been pronounced oyer the treasure for\\nits security, which could only be dispelled by cer-\\ntain ceremonies, charms and amulets to guard\\nagainst danger and ensure success. Her demands\\nin money were so large that she counselled Mancini\\nto raise it through a party duly sworn to secrecy.\\nThe wreck, of which the debris still existed ashore,\\npretty well indicated the locality to be searched,\\nwhich she assigned to an area of nxed dimensions\\nas determined from questions propounded to Jose.\\nOver this space the party to be formed were to\\nmarch in open order, thrusting pikes into the\\nsand as they went, but at midnight, in profound\\nsilence, (for a word spoken would instantly dissolve\\nthe charm) until the coffer was struck and lifted\\nfrom its bed this injunction was to be strictly\\nobserved. All this Mancini received in implicit\\nfaith and proceeded forthwith to form a club of\\nsome base associates.\\nIt was deemed best by De Blanton first to clear", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "CHKOKICLES OF FLORIDA. 223\\nthe beach of these prospectors before acting in the\\ninterest of Safet and others. So, when Mancini\\ncame with a number of men, ostensibly for the\\npurpose of fishing and gunning on the coast, when\\nthey pitched their tent for the night, about bed-\\ntime a ship on fire suddenly sailed on the land\\nand discharged a broadside towards the camp.\\nThis display of pyrotechnic art from behind one of\\nthe sand hills, magnified by fear and superstition,\\nso frightened the group that they instantly retreat-\\ned and could not be induced to remain, firmly of\\nopinion that the Tigre de la Mar had come to\\ndefend his treasure. But in a few days more the\\nconjuress counselled them to make a second at-\\ntempt under more potent spells, the main one was\\nfor each man to burn a lock of his hair on march-\\ning out to the ground. All went well till they had\\nreached a place where a caboose had been purposely\\nburied, which returned a hollow sound to the pikes.\\nAt that instant the sudden appearance of Poetla,\\nadorned Avith antlers and covered with phorescent\\noil, so surprised them, that one exclaimed Ave", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "JB24 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nMaria and so broke the charm. Poetla as sud-\\ndenly disappeared. At a safe distance the party-\\nbroke up, at enmity, and threatened the life of him\\nwho had first spoken when the treasure was as\\nthey thought almost within their grasp. All\\nattempt at renewing the search was then at an end.\\nWhen the treasure was brought to the house of\\nGlover it was found not to exceed two hundred\\nthousand pesos in value.\\nTwo days after this there was joy in the settle-\\nment when Merceron, with certain elders and\\nfriends, was seen approaching. All who could, ran\\nout to meet him. He bore important news, and\\nletters from brethren, some of their former asso-\\nciates, now quietly setted in the vicinity of Port\\nEoyal. Cordial invitations and many inducements\\nwere offered to urge their immediate migration\\nthither. One letter, that from Col. Turner, was as\\nwarm as it was unexpected. Merceron had secured\\nthree haciendas on the route under the respective\\ncharge of friends, ]^)upre, Garnet and Langlois, to\\ntransfer those present as also others from Santa Fe.", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA. 225\\nSenor Sanchez had also agreed to purchase the\\nhabitations at a fair valuation, so that nothing noAV\\nremained to interfere with the exodus beyond the\\nboundary, save what hindrance might be thrown in\\nthe way by the government, which was not now\\nto be anticipated.\\nHaving said this much, Merceron proceeded in\\nthe open air to call around him the convocation of\\nelders and brethren. We are here assembled,\\nhe began, to show to men by what test the true\\nchurch is to be known. This test is not zeal but\\nJove, love in the bond of unity, so that opponents\\ncan only say, Behold, how they love oue another I\\nIn this let us walk in God, with God in us. Who-\\never knows that God is love must love his fellow\\nmei]. It has been said, Ye are the salt of the\\nearth, then go forth, as a preservative element to\\nsocial progress, but let your influence be felt as the\\ngentle dew of Heaven. Go forth, now, and add\\nyour agency to whatever is promotive of good in\\nthe development of a great and holy people on this\\ncontinent. Other matters will come for your", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "226 CHRONICLES OF FLORIDA.\\nconsideration before we leave for tlie north country.\\nKow we have formally to receive five members into\\nour fold, after an examination by two elders. In\\nthe meantime, I will proceed to unite in marriage\\nthese two young brethren, now present, to two\\ngranddaughters of our brother De Blanton.\\nAfter this ceremony, Merceron concluded thus\\nAnd here admonished by the approach of age,\\nand the wishes and necessities of this little flock, I\\nresign my wandering life in the hope that I may be\\napproved by God and man as a faithful pastor.\\nAnd, my beloved flock, when my eyelids close in\\ndeath, let my humble remains be buried beneath a\\npalmetto tree, with this verse inscribed above the\\ngrave\\nWise as serjjents, hut innocent as doves.\\nFINIS.\\nCCr^^", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3025", "width": "1801", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3257", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "chronicleofflori00teba_0234.jp2"}}