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Bishop Altamiro said Florida Indians' real roads were on the water
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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This [transport of supplies] volume in itself is sufficient to explain why the early doctrinas were maritime. The first strings of doctrinas followed the waterways of Guale and eastern Timucua from Satuache on the northern border down to Agua Dulce, a 16th-century province on the east bank of the St. Johns between Lake Hamey and present Palatka. Except for six easily crossed bars, it was possible to walk from Satuache down to St. Augustine. But as in the Philippines, most of the traffic went by boat. In Florida, the Indians' real roads, as Bishop Altamirano noted in 1606, were on the water (Davila, 1606; Rojas y Borja, 1627). (Bushnell SS)
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