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Tampa--Undisturbed slumbers--First settlement by Narvaez--Poor Juan Ortiz!--His vigils among the dead--Espiritu Santo Bay--De Soto and his festive soldiers--Billy Bowlegs--Cedar and pine lumber-mills in Tampa--A school and its teacher--Old Tampa--Uses of the cabbage palm--Fort Brooke--Appeal of General Worth to the vanity of Coacoochee, which finally results in his band being sent West--An invocation to the Great Spirit during a storm.