Notes on the Floridian Peninsula; its Literary History, Indian Tribes and Antiquities

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Brinton Daniel Garrison. Notes on the Floridian Peninsula; its Literary History, Indian Tribes and Antiquities

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. LITERARY HISTORY

§ 1.—The Early Explorations. 1512-1562

§ 2.—The French Colonies. 1562-1567

§ 3.—The First Spanish Supremacy. 1567-1763

§ 4.—The English Supremacy. 1763-1780

§ 5.—The Second Spanish Supremacy. 1780-1821

§ 6.—The Supremacy of the United States. 1821-1858

§ 7.—Maps And Charts

CHAPTER II. THE APALACHES

CHAPTER III. PENINSULAR TRIBES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

§ 1.—Situation and Social Condition

§ 2.—Civilization

§ 3.—Religion

§ 4.—Language

CHAPTER IV. LATER TRIBES

§ 1.—Yemassees and other Tribes

§ 2.—The Seminoles

CHAPTER V. THE SPANISH MISSIONS

CHAPTER VI. ANTIQUITIES

APPENDIX I. THE SILVER SPRING

APPENDIX II. THE MUMMIES OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY

APPENDIX III. THE PRECIOUS METALS POSSESSED BY THE EARLY FLORIDIAN INDIANS

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The present little work is the partial result of odd hours spent in the study of the history, especially the ancient history—if by this term I may be allowed to mean all that pertains to the aborigines and first settlers—of the peninsula of Florida. In some instances, personal observations during a visit thither, undertaken for the purposes of health in the winter of 1856-57, have furnished original matter, and served to explain, modify, or confirm the statements of previous writers.

Aware of the isolated interest ever attached to merely local history, I have endeavored, as far as possible, by pointing out various analogies, and connecting detached facts, to impress upon it a character of general value to the archæologist and historian. Should the attempt have been successful, and should the book aid as an incentive to the rapidly increasing attention devoted to subjects of this nature, I shall feel myself amply repaid for the hours of toil, which have also ever been hours of pleasure, spent in its preparation.

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Towards the close of the century, several works were published in Spain, of which we know little but their titles. Thus, mention is made of a geographical description of the country (Descripcion y Calidades de la Florida) by Barrientes, Professor of the Latin language at the University of Salamanca, about 1580. It is probably nothing more than an extract from the Cosmographia, attributed by some to this writer. Also, about the same time, Augustin de Padilla Davila, a Dominican, and Bishop of St. Domingo, published an ecclesiastical history of the See of Mexico and the progress of the faith in Florida.49 Very little, however, had been achieved that early in the peninsular and consequently his work would in this respect interest us but little. The reports of the proceedings of the Council of the Indies, doubtless contain more or less information in regard to Florida; Barcia refers especially to those published in 1596.50

Early in the next century there appeared an account of the Franciscan missionaries who had perished in their attempts to convert the savages of Florida.51 The author, Geronimo de Ore, a native of Peru, and who had previously filled the post of Professor of Sacred Theology in Cusco, was, at the time of writing, commissary of Florida, and subsequently held a position in the Chilian Church, (deinde commissarius Floridæ, demum imperialis civitatis Chilensis regni antistes.)52 He was a man of deep erudition, and wrote various other works “very learned and curious,” (mui doctos y curiosos.53)

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