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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
o doubt that the inhabitants spoke a dialect Mills, 223. of the language of the Muskhogees. They had already Hewatt. learned the use of horses and of beeves, which multi- Ramsay. plied without care in their groves. At sunrise, on the fourteenth of December, the bold adventurers reached Dec. 14. the strong place of Ayavalla. Beaten back from the assault with loss, they succeeded in setting fire to the church, which adjoined the fort. A barefoot friar, the only white man, came forward to bDec. 14. the strong place of Ayavalla. Beaten back from the assault with loss, they succeeded in setting fire to the church, which adjoined the fort. A barefoot friar, the only white man, came forward to beg mercy; more than a hundred women and children, and more than fifty warriors, were taken and kept as prisoners for the slave market. On the next morning, the Spanish commander 15. on the bay, with twenty-three soldiers and four hundred Indians, gave battle, and was defeated; but the Spanish fort was too strong to be carried by storm. The tawny chief of Ivitachma compounded for peace 17. with the plate of his church and ten horses laden with provisions. Five other towns submitted without