Now that this historic spot and river are identified, the line can be extended another five leagues in the same direction to fix the locale where the cavaliers slept and from which they started on the third morning. This latter place will be used as a known base from which to make additional computations and determine the location of another river mentioned later.

There were no events of importance on the third day's ride of 17 leagues. Garcilaso dilates on an incident in which two Indians were encountered, relating that thereafter the riders heard "great yells and alarums." On the fourth day they made another 17 leagues and lanced seven more Indians.

The Spaniards had their mettle sorely tried on the fifth day. When they had accomplished five leagues that day they reached another river which was the locale of many happenings narrated by De Soto eyewitnesses. Earlier it had been nicknamed "River of Discords" by the advance contingent with the General, due presumably to their mutinous clamor there to give up the invasion.

It was brought out that this village was reached four leagues after crossing a large river. When De Soto reached that spot, enroute to the army's wintering camp near Tallahassee, an Indian envoy from a chief named Osachile, or Aucilla, met him there and presented a deer to him.

There is now enough data on hand so that even an amateur researcher can determine the location and modern name of this river which De Soto's men called "River of the Deer." Its location is revealed by the distances already mentioned.

It is apparent, by the data, that the cavaliers crossed the River of the Deer when they had made 23 leagues along their way from the wintering camp. If an accurate map of Florida is used, and a line is drawn on it starting just northeasterly of Tallahassee, and this line is continued 23 leagues along known ancient Indian trails over the Aucilla River and thence southeasterly, it will be found that this line will cross the Suwannee River just below Dowling Park, about where the famous St. Augustine-Pensacola trail crossed it.