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Governor Salinas was cautious about the English at Virginia and Bermuda
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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Governor Juan de Salinas, in 1623, thought that Virginia and Bermuda were near enough neighbors that the Florida dotacion ought to stay at 300 plazas (Salinas, 1623). Roused by reports that "blond men on horseback" were exploring inland, he dispatched two entradas in search of them under the command of a Timucuan chief. His successor, Governor Luis de Rojas y Borja, sent a third entrada of 10 soldiers and 60 Guale Indians. Although they covered 200 leagues of backcountry, the three parties succeeded only in relocating Hernando de Soto's "lagoon of pearls" (Rojas y Borja, 1625. (Bushnell SS)
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