Our main object in detailing these matters is to show that Narvaez' relations with the Indians at this point where he started inland do not seem to correspond to the picture of them we get through Garcilaso or even Elvas. Hence, we can not feel certain that the chief of the town where Narvaez landed was certainly the Ocita of De Soto.

The atrocities, if such there were, might well have been the work of one of the commanders of Narvaez' vessels which cruised about in search of him "for nearly a year." Also, the village at which Ortiz was afterwards made captive may have been at almost any point inside Tampa Bay.

It is quite certain, in any case, that De Soto did not enter the bay in which Narvaez disembarked for this was undoubtedly on the outside of Pinellas Peninsula. The passes opening on that side do not correspond to the one which De Soto did enter. None of them has more than 5 feet over the bar at mean low tide.

Finally it is unnecessary to assume an identity in the two towns because Elvas informs us that the village where Ortiz was first held captive was after-wards burned by Mococo, and "Utica went in flight to another town he had in another seaport."

We think it is plain from the foregoing study of the Pinellas Peninsula theory (1) that De Soto did not land on the west side of that peninsula, (2) that had he landed at Pt. Pinellas, and had the town of Ucita been anywhere near the place indicated, there is no way to account satisfactorily for the long time his main army required to reach it, and (3) that there is no place corresponding very closely to the site on the other side of "the roadstead of the harbor."

If Port Tampa is suggested, there seems to be no adequate reason why De Soto should have landed on Pinellas Peninsula at all. Nor is it possible to identify satisfactorily any known river with the River of Mococo. The only recourse for us would be to assume that the Spaniards crossed Hillsboro River only to recross it, the likelihood of which may be left to the reader to decide.

Let us now consider the possibility that the point of landing was in Hillsboro Bay, and that the village of the other side was necessarily on or near Gadsden Point. This theory assumes that the army landed somewhere on the east side of Hillsboro Bay, fairly well toward the Gulf, and after marching around the heads of inlets and through marshes, as Ranjel describes, until nightfall, found itself opposite the town on

Gadsden Point.

This, however, involves the cardinal absurdity of supposing that instead of taking their vessels along the main channel to Gadsden Point and landing at the town itself, the Spaniards ferried their troops across the shallow water on the east side of the bay and marched them around all day, only to find it necessary to ferry them to the opposite side after all. Moreover, we are distinctly told that there were extensive shoals in front of Ocita whereas deep water extends close to the end of Interbay Peninsula.

In centering our attention upon the east side of Tampa Bay and its extension into Hillsboro Bay we also have documentary support. In the description of Tampa Bay by Lopez de Velasco, Tocobaga, Espiritu Santo and Miruelo all appear as synonymous terms applying to Tampa. In a short paragraph immediately preceding, however, Tocobaga and Espiritu Santo seem to be clearly differentiated. The text reads:

"Bay of the Holy Spirit -- where begins the government of Florida in 29 degrees N. Lat., 20 or 30 leagues from the Bay of Tocobaga to the west."

Immediately afterward this writer speaks of the bay of Tocobaga, Espiritu Santo or Miruelo as in 29½ degrees N. Lat. Here, although he seems to equate the Bay of the Holy Spirit with Tocobaga, the difference in latitude and the paragraph just quoted show that a distinction was drawn between them. The Bay of Tocobaga is a little higher up and a little farther to west as is the case, in fact, with Old Tampa Bay, while the Bay of the Holy Spirit was to the south and east, i.e. Tampa Bay proper, the Hillsboro.

Support for this view is also derived from the narrative of the expedition of Cartaya and the let-ter of Bishop Calderon. In the former, two neighboring provinces are mentioned called Tocobaga and Pooy; but the bay is called the Bay of Pooy, and in this bay it was that the Indians reported De Soto to have landed. In describing the "coast of the southern frontier," the Bishop begins on the east side of the peninsula and passes round to the west side, continuing up to the region of pre-sent Tampa Bay.

He says "at 6 leagues from the Beach of Pusale is the Pojoy River; at 12 is that of Tocopacas." Immediately afterwards he enumerates the tribes, maintaining approximately the same order. Among them we read of the "Pojoyes, the Pineros, and the Tocopacas." Who the Pineros were is uncertain. It may be contended that