The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, July 1923 - April, 1924 Page: 130
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130 Southwestern Historical Quarterly
The following day, Easter Sunday, the Indians of that town
came and talked to the Christians, but they could not make them-
selves understood. It seemed as if they were threatening them
and telling them to leave the land. They made gestures and
fierce threats. Having done this they left. The following day,
in order to see the land and explore it, the Governor sent six
mounted men and forty footmen in a northeasterly direction
until, on that same day, they came to a bay which went inland.5
From there the Governor, who was one of the six mounted men,
and the men, returned.
The following day the Governor sent out one of his brigantines
to sail along the coast in the direction of Florida in search of a
harbor which the pilot, Miruelo, said he knew of, where they could
take these men. The pilot erred, for he did not know where the
harbor was. He sent the brigantine in that direction because in
looking for the harbor it would arrive at the island of Cuba and
it could then go to the harbor and town of Havana in search of
another large ship, which ship they were expecting from Havana.
In this ship there were forty men and twelve horses. The Gov-
ernor gave orders that, should the ship be found, both ships in
Havana should load up with as much provisions as they could
carry and that they should take the cargo to where the Christians
and the Governor remained.
That having been done, the Christians left there and went to
the blay which they had discovered, and followed its shores. They
had traveled four leagues from where they had landed when they
found some Indians. They captured three of them and showed
them a little maize, and questioned them as to where it was.
Those Indians guided the Spaniards to a village which was at the
end of the bay. They showed them a small maize field. This was
the first maize they had seen in that land. There they found
some large boxes of Castilla and in each box there was a dead man
with his body covered with painted hides. It seemed to the com-
missary and the friars that they were idols. The Governor
ordered them burned. They found pieces of shoes, linen, and
woven cloth and some iron. They asked the Indians about it and
they told them, by means of signs, that they had found these
things on a ship which had been wrecked on that coast and bay.
Old Tampa Bay.
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, July 1923 - April, 1924, periodical, 1924; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101086/m1/136/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.