A year or two before Dickinson's epic journey, two Spanish officers, Joachin de Florencia, visiting the provinces of Apalache and Timucua, and Juan de Pueyo, visiting Guale and Mocamo, issued perfunctory, almost identical orders to the caciques to "see that all the indios have crosses decently treated in their houses, a large cross at the door of the house and inside at the head of their beds other small ones," and that they "recite the Ave Maria and say their rosaries daily before these crosses" (Florencia, 1694-1695; Pueyo, 1695). [Note: A like devotion was encouraged in the Philippines, where women and children gathered daily at the foot of the large wooden cross in the main plaza to chant the Rosary, and children walked chanting through the streets at sunset.] (Bushnell SS)