The Spaniards in Florida

4

A low palm, bearing an oily berry.

5

Ternaux Compans.

6

Hakluyt.

7

Brevis Narratio.

8

W. Gilmore Simms, Esq.

9

Laudonnière says, "joignant la montagne."

10

Canaveral, where Ribault was wrecked, must have been some point north of Mosquito Inlet, and not the cape now bearing that name, as he could not have crossed Mosquito Inlet in his march to Matanzas.

11

Barcia, p. 87.

12

Barcia, p. 89.

13

Barcia, p. 89.

14

Barcia, p. 89.

15

Such was the understanding of those who then wrote in reference to the transaction, as Barcia admits.

16

Ensay. Cron. 110.

17

Ensayo: Cron. 115.

18

Pensacola Bay was also so called.

19

Ensayo: Cron. 133.

20

Ternaux Compans, p. 357.

21

This old chest, which remained in one of the western vaults of the fort, up to the late war, was broken up for relics, and is no longer there.

22

I do not find any account of this expedition and capture of St. Augustine in the Ensayo Cronologica.

23

Carroll's S. C., Vol. 1, p. 62.

24

Rivers' S. C. Hist. Coll. p. 143. Do. Appendix, 426. Carroll's Coll., 2d vol., 350.

25

There must be an error, of course, in this statement of an 82-gun ship entering St. Augustine, as the depth of water would never admit a vessel of over 300 tons: probably 82 should read 12 tons. G. R. F.

26

Carroll's Hist. Coll., vol. 2, p. 352.

27

Rivers' Hist. Sketches, S. C., app. 458.

28

State Papers of Georgia. Ga. Hist. Soc.

29

This statement is unsupported by either Spanish or English authority. The writer of the letter, through want of familiarity with their language, misunderstood his informants, in all probability, as to the extent of their loss.

30

MSS, in Geo. Hist. Soc. Library.

31

Monteano, MSS., Archives St. Augustine.

32

Monteano, MS. Letter of, 28th July, 1740.

33

Report upon Expedition to St. Augustine. Carroll's Coll. 2d vol., p. 354.

34

Carroll's Hist. Coll. S. C. p. 359.

35

De Brahm MS., p. 192.

36

Stork, p. 11.

37

Williams' Florida, p. 17.

38

Among the families remaining were the Fatios, Flemings, and a few others.

39

The old parish church was on St. George street, on west side of the street.

40

Voyage to Spanish Main. London, 1819. Page 116, et seq.

41

Williams' Florida, pp. 18, et seq.

42

It is said to have been taken down by the contractor, to form the foundation of his kitchen.

43

Bryant.

44

It is much more ancient.

45

This song is usually called the Fromajardis.