NOTES
ON THE
FLORIDIAN PENINSULA;
ITS
LITERARY HISTORY,
INDIAN TRIBES AND ANTIQUITIES.
BY
DANIEL G. BRINTON, A. B.
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PHILADELPHIA:
PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH SABIN,
No. 27 South Sixth Street, above Chestnut. 1859.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by
DANIEL G. BRINTON,
In the Clerk’s office of the District Court, in and for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, PHILADA.
TO THE
LOVERS AND CULTIVATORS
OF THE
HISTORY AND ARCHÆOLOGY OF OUR COUNTRY,
THIS WORK
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
B Y T H E A U T H O R.
PREFACE.
The present little work is the partial result of odd hours spent in the study of the history, especially the ancient history—if by this term I may be allowed to mean all that pertains to the aborigines and first settlers—of the peninsula of Florida. In some instances, personal observations during a visit thither, undertaken for the purposes of health in the winter of 1856-57, have furnished original matter, and served to explain, modify, or confirm the statements of previous writers.
Aware of the isolated interest ever attached to merely local history, I have endeavored, as far as possible, by pointing out various analogies, and connecting detached facts, to impress upon it a character of general value to the archæologist and historian. Should the attempt have been successful, and should the book aid as an incentive to the rapidly increasing attention devoted to subjects of this nature, I shall feel myself amply repaid for the hours of toil, which have also ever been hours of pleasure, spent in its preparation.
Thornbury, Penna., April, 1859.
CONTENTS.
| [CHAPTER I.] | |
|---|---|
| LITERARY HISTORY. | |
| PAGE. | |
| Introductory Remarks.—The Early Explorations.—TheFrench Colonies.—The First Spanish Supremacy.—TheEnglish Supremacy.—The Second SpanishSupremacy.—The Supremacy of the United States.—Mapsand Charts | [13] |
| [CHAPTER II.] | |
| THE APALACHES. | |
| Derivation of the Name.—Earliest Notices of.—Visitedand Described by Bristock, in 1653.—Authenticity ofhis Narrative.—Subsequent History and Final Extinction | [92] |
| [CHAPTER III.] | |
| TRIBES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| § 1. SITUATION AND SOCIAL CONDITION.—Caloosas.—Aisand Tegesta.—Tocobaga.—Vitachuco.—Utina.—Soturiba.—Methodof Government. | |
| § 2. CIVILIZATION.—Appearance.—Games.—Agriculture.—Constructionof Dwellings.—Clothing. | |
| § 3. RELIGION.—General Remarks.—Festivals in Honorof the Sun and Moon.—Sacrifices.—Priests.—SepulchralRites. | |
| § 4. LANGUAGES.—The Timuquana Tongue.—WordsPreserved by the French | [111] |
| [CHAPTER IV.] | |
| LATER TRIBES. | |
| § 1. Yemassees.—Uchees.—Apalachicolos.—MigrationsNorthwards. | |
| § 2. Seminoles | [139] |
| [CHAPTER V.] | |
| THE SPANISH MISSIONS. | |
| Early Attempts.—Efforts of Aviles.—Later Missions.—Extent during the most Flourishing Period.—Decay | [150] |
| [CHAPTER VI.] | |
| ANTIQUITIES. | |
| Mounds.—Roads.—Shell Heaps.—Old Fields | [166] |
| [APPENDIX I.] | |
| The Silver Spring | [183] |
| [APPENDIX II.] | |
| The Mummies of the Mississippi Valley | [191] |
| [APPENDIX III.] | |
| The Precious Metals Possessed by the Early FloridianIndians | [199] |