[Note 1 Early Spanish activities in the southeastern portion of the United States are treated in English by Woodbury Lowery in his two-volume work on Spanish Settlements Within the Present Limits of the United States, 1618-1674 (New York, 1901, 1905); Bolton, Herbert E., The Spanish Borderlands (New Haven, 1921), ehs. 1, 3, 5; Shea, J. G., The Catholic Church in the United States, vol. I (New York, 1886). Their place in the general history of North America is set forth briefly in Bolton and Marshall, The Colonization of North America (New York, 1920), 24, 40-42, 6165, 253-257.