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Torres found Cofitachequi abundant with pearls
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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In 1628 Pedro de Torres was sent inland by the governor of Florida, Luis de Rojas y Borjas. He went as far as "Cafatechiqui" (or "Cosatachiqui"), "more than two hundred leagues inland," and the governor states in his letter to the king describing this expedition that the men in his party were the first Spaniards to visit it since De Soto's time. This last statement is, of course, an error. The governor says little more except that all the chiefs in the country were under the chief of Cofitachequi, and the rivers there abounded in pearls, which the natives appear to have gathered in a manner described by Garcilasso.2 (Swanton)
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