Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour: out of the foure yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie ... of don Ferdinando de Soto ... (1609)
Knight of Elvas · At London : printed by Felix Kyngston for Matthew Lownes, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bishops head in Pauls Churchyard. · leaf 118
ne for them: that the Indians liuedvpon Oaniee their flefh. The Gouernor feeing,that toward that part _ | the Countrie was fo poore of Maiz, that in it they could not bee fuftained, demanded of the Indians, which way it was moft inhabited: and they faid, they had notice ofa great Prouince, and a… … gaue him two ofhis fifters, faying, that in figneofleue that he might remember him, he fhould take them for his wives; the ones name was (Macanoche, and the o- thers -Mochila : they were well proportioned,tall of bodie, and well flefhed. Atacanoche was of a good countenance, and in her fhape and…
Soto, Hernando de, approximately 1500-1542 · Florida -- History -- To 1565 · Imprint 1609
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