chicoza

Updated: May 16, 2025

The Spaniards now broke up their piraguas, keeping the iron work for future service, and advanced farther into the country. In four days they reached a town called Chicoza , well situated in a fertile country among brooks and surrounded by abundance of fruit trees.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the : Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea : and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

According to the Governor Pownall's map of North America, Soto fell in with this river in 1541, about the lat. of 34° 30' N. in the country of the Chicasaws and to the west of the Yazous, near where we have already supposed Chicoza to have been situated.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the : Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea : and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

If this be the place indicated in the text, it is quite adverse to the idea of Chicoza being to the north-west of the Yazous. At this time the Spaniards were reduced to great distress from want of salt, owing to which they were afflicted with lingering fevers, of which several died, and their bodies stunk so violently, that there was no coming near them.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the : Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea : and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time