country and province was resident; in which town the camp master, whose office is to quarter out, and lodge men, did lodge all the company round about within a league, and half a league of it. There were other towns, where was great store of maize, pompions, French beans, and plums of the country, which are better than those of _Spain_, and they grow in the fields without planting. The victuals that were thought necessary to pass the winter, were gathered from these towns to _Anaica Apalache_. The Governor was informed that the sea was ten leagues from thence. He presently sent a captain thither with horsemen and footmen. And six leagues on the way he found a town which was named _Ochete_, and so came to the sea; and found a great tree felled, and cut into pieces, with stakes set up like mangers, and saw the skulls of horses. He returned with this news. And that was held for certain, which was reported of _Pamphilo de Narvaez_, that there he had built the barks wherewith he went out of the land of _Florida_, and was cast away at sea. Presently the Governor sent _John Danusco_ with thirty horsemen to the _Port de Spirito Santo_ where _Calderan_ was, with order that they should abandon the port, and all of them come to _Apalache_. He departed on Saturday the 17th of November. In _Uzachil_ and other towns that stood in the way he found great store of people already careless. He would take none of the Indians, for not hindering himself, because it behooved him to give them no leisure to gather themselves together. He passed through the towns by night, and rested without the towns three or four hours. In ten days he came to the _Port de Spirito Santo_. He carried with him twenty Indian women, which he took in _Ytara_, and _Potano_, near unto _Cale_, and sent them to _Donna Isabella_ in the two caravels, which he sent from the _Port de Spirito Santo_ to _Cuba_. And he carried all the footmen in the brigantines, and coasting along the shore came to _Apalache_. And _Calderan_, with the horsemen, and some crossbow-men on foot, went by land; and in some places the Indians set upon him, and wounded some of his men. As soon as he came to _Apalache_, presently the Governor sent sawed planks and spikes to the sea-side, wherewith was made a piragua or bark, wherein were embarked thirty men well armed, which went out of the bay to the sea, looking for the brigantines. Sometimes they fought with the Indians, which passed along the harbor in their canoes. Upon Saturday, the 29th of November, there came an Indian through the watch undiscovered, and sat the town on fire, and with the great wind that blew two parts of it were consumed in a short time. On Sunday the 28th of December, came _John Danusco_ with the brigantines. The Governor sent _Francisco Maldonado_, a captain of footmen, with fifty men to discover the coast westward, and to seek some port, because he had determined to go by land, and discover that part. That day there