The Indians are well proportioned. Those of the plain countries are taller of body, and better shapen, than those of the mountains. Those of the inland have greater store of maize, and commodities of the country, than those that dwell upon the sea-coast. The country along the sea-coast is barren and poor, and the people more warlike. The coast runneth from Puerto del Spiritu Santo to Apalache, east and west; and from Apalache to Rio de las Palmas from east to west; from Rio de las Palmas unto Nueva España from north to south. It is a gentle coast, but it hath many shoals, and great shelves of sand.
Deo gratias.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] Elvas is a city in Portugal.
[B] Cabeça de Vaca was the Governor of the River of Plate.
[C] The Cassavi root.
[D] Tampa Bay, on the west side of Florida.
[E] From Spirito Santo or Tampa Bay.
[F] Twelve days from St. Helena, and Coste seven days' journey from Chiaha.
[G] Chisca is directly north from Cutifachiqui, which is within two days of St. Helena.