THE LILY AND THE TOTEM, OR, THE HUGUENOTS IN FLORIDA. A SERIES OF SKETCHES, PICTURESQUE AND HISTORICAL, OF THE COLONIES OF COLIGNI, IN NORTH AMERICA. 1562-1570. BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE YEMASSEE," "LIFE OF MARION," "LIFE OF BAYARD" ETC. NEW YORK: BAKER AND SCRIBNER, 145 NASSAU STREET AND 36 PARK ROW. 1850. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by W. GILMORE SIMMS, ESQ. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. C. W. BENEDICT, _Stereotyper_, 201 William st. EPISTLE DEDICATORY. TO THE HON. JAMES H. HAMMOND, OF SOUTH CAROLINA. MY DEAR HAMMOND: I very well know the deep interest which you take in all researches which aim to develope the early history of our State and country, and sympathize with you very sincerely in that local feeling which delights to trace, on your own grounds, and in your own neighborhood, the doubtful progresses of French and Spaniard, in their wild passion for adventure or eager appetite for gold. I have no doubt that the clues are in your hands which shall hereafter conduct you along a portion of the route pursued by that famous cavalier, Hernando de Soto; and I am almost satisfied that the region of Silver Bluff was that distinguished in the adventures of the Spanish Adelantado, by the presence of that dusky but lovely princess of Cofachiqui, who welcomed him with so much favor and whom he treated with an ingratitude as unhandsome as unknightly. But I must not dwell on a subject go seductive; particularly, as I entertain the hope, in some future labor, to weave her legend into an appropriate, and I trust not unworthy history. For the present, inscribing these pages to you, as a memorial of a long and grateful intimacy, and of inquiries and conjectures, musings and meditations, enjoyed together, which, it is my hope, have resulted no less profitably to you than to myself, I propose briefly to give you the plan of the volume in your hands.