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Narvaez was the first expedition to penetrate into Florida's interior
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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We now come to expeditions which penetrated some distance into the interior. The first of these was led by the unfortunate Narvaez, who landed in Florida April 11, 1528, probably at or near Tampa Bay. From there the Spaniards marched inland, meeting very few Indians and apparently only one or two Indian villages. They crossed two rivers, which we may surmise to have been the Withlacoochee and Suwanee, and finally came to the country of the Apalachee. No tribal names are mentioned in the territory traversed before reaching these people; merely the name of a chief, Dulchanchellin, whose village seems to have been in that province which the De Soto narratives call Ocale. 2 What happened to the Spaniards among the Apalachee has been related in giving the history of the Apalachee tribe.3 (Swanton)
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