(seq. 190)

East Florida

=biting that River were the Kofasiki Indians, who admired, and
treated their Guests very amicably, and generously, but these Saint=
=Dominguans (after having made unsuccessful Trials determined with
-out Acquisition not to return to their Island, and to have their fellow
Insulars laugh in the Bargain) were barbarous enough to allure
130 Indians on board their Vessels with an Intent to carry them as
their Slaves to St Domingue, took up their Anchors, and departed;
but the distressed Indians had Resolution enough to refuse Victuals
and starved themselves rather, than to be carried into Slavery, and
one of these Vessels perished in the Passage (a)

5th Soto, after crossing the Apalachicola Stream and the Country
of the Kofasiki Indians arrived with his Army in the Beginning of
April 1541 upon Kusaw River, then inhavited by the Chikasaq
Nation, attacked and took their Fort called Albiamo, situated
in the Fork of Kusaw, and Lojushatehee Rivers built 1000 feet
square, with four Rows of Pallisades, three small Gates in each
Row, in all twelve Gates in a Line with each other, that is four
in a Line in the MIddle of 500 feet distance from each Corner, and
four Gates answering in a LIne each other near both Corners of
the Fort, in the Middle of which were two lesser Pallisaded
Intrenchments or Retreats. before Soto arrived upon Kusaw River,
and after he left the Kofasikis, he went through the following Towns;
Guachile, Icholi, and Taskalucha from the Chikasaws he
marched his Army into the Chiskaw Nation on the East Side of
Chukaguha (now Missispi) Stream 1500 Miles above its
Mouth, where he built five Barges, each big enough to hold
150 Infanterists and 30 Cavalrists, in which and sone Indian
Boats

(a) this particular Narrative is inserted in order to direct those who are at an
uncertainty, where to place the Stream Jordan; some will have it in the Guld of Pen=
=sacola, some will, that what is now called Savannah & divies So Carolina from
Georgia, is the Stream formerly by the Spaniards called Jordan; but neither of
these Places are so near a Cape Land as Apalachicolan; or is there any Cape from
this to Cape Romans in South Carolina confining a Stream, unless
it is Punta Larga, but is River and Entrance is very shallow, and
has no Water for a Vessel of more than 5 feet Draught.