[188] Barcia, En. Cron. Año 1566.
[189] See Prior’s Journal in Williams’ Florida, p. 299. The name Miami applied to a tribe in Ohio, and still retained by two rivers in that State, properly Omaumeg, is said to be a pure Algic word, meaning, People who live on the peninsula. (Amer. Hist. Mag. Vol. III., p. 90.) We are, however, not yet prepared to accept this explanation as applicable to the word as it appears in Florida.
[190] Barcia, Ensay. Cron., p. 49, and compare the Hist. Notable, p. 134.
[191] For these facts see Fontanedo’s Memoire, passim, and Barcia, Años 1566, 1567.
[192] Bernard Romans, pp. 291-2.
[193] Desde los Martires al Cañaveral, Herrera, Dec. IV., Lib., IV., cap. VII.
[194] Barcia (En. Cron. p. 118) says Ais commences twenty leagues up the St. Johns river; but distances given by the Spanish historians were often mere guesses, quite untrustworthy.
[195] Basanier, Hist. Notable, pp. 133-4.
[196] Vignoles, Obs. on the Floridas, pp. 74-5.
[197] Biedma, Relation, p. 53; the Port. Gent. in Hackluyt, V., p. 492; La Vega, Lib. II., cap. x., p. 38.