In 1655 the district of Timucua included eighteen missions, stretching eastward and westward from their centre at Santa Fe to link St. Augustine with the populous country of the Apalache. [Note: 14 The Timucuan missions appear on an English manuscript map of the early eighteenth century, Colonial Office (hereinafter cited as C.O.) Maps, North American Colonies, General, 7. Swanton, Early History, pp. 322 f., prints Spanish lists (1655, 1680) of the missions of Guale, Timucua, and Apalache.]