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A teenaged Spaniard reported Mocamo living as Christians without mass
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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Sixteen-year-old Andres de Segura, one of a party of castaways who passed through the Guale chiefdom of Asao-Talaxe early in 1595, saw no churches or convents and few signs of Spaniards. The Guales dressed in skins and lived on the mainland, leaving the barrier islands to feral pigs. The Mocamo practice was different. On Cumberland Island Segura visited San Pedro, a town of "many Christian Indian men and women" and a detachment of Spaniards. They lived "without Mass or sacraments," he said, because "in all Florida there was only one cleric, very old." This deficiency would soon be corrected. The very frigate that took Segura and his companions from St. Augustine to Havana made the return trip with a dozen missionaries (San Miguel, 1629). (Bushnell SS)
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