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Excerpt from Early English Voyages to America, Vol. 3 of 4: Being the Portion of the Celebrated Collection of Voyages of Richard Hakluyt, Relating to That Part of the World Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour: out of the foure yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto and sixe hundred able men in his companie.(Conz nuea.) Chap. XXV. How the Gouernour departed from Pacaha to Quigaute, and to Coligoa, and came to Cayas. The Gouernour rested in Pacaha fortie daies. In all which time the two Caeiques serued him with great store of sh, mantles and skinnes, and stroue who should doe him greatest service. At the time of his departure, the Caeique of Pacaha gaue him two of his sisters, saying that in signe of loue that hee might remember him, he should take them for his wiues: the ones name was Maeanoche, and the others Mochila; they were well proportioned, tall of bodie, and well eshed. Maeanoche was of a good countenance, and in her shape and physiognimie looked like a Ladie; the other was strongly made. The Casiqui of Casqui commanded the bridge to be repaired, and the Gouernour returned through his Country, and lodged in a eld neere his towne, whither hee came with great store of fish, and two women, which hee exchanged with two Christians for shirts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
