ON THE EVE OF INVASION
Editor's note: To celebrate Florida's 500th
anniversary, The Sarasota News Leader
is happy to serialize portions of the second chapter of City Editor Stan Zimmerman's forthcoming Maritime History of
Florida. Here he looks at the historical,
religious, financial and psychological motives of the Spanish as they are about to
explode into the New World. Next week,
we will continue with the story of one of
them — Juan Ponce de León, the man who
named Florida.
Jacque le Moyne was a French artist in Florida in 1565. Although the authenticity of this drawing
is questionable, it still gives viewers an idea of the fish and fishing techniques practiced by indigenous Floridians at the time of the Spanish 'entrada.' Image from The New World: the first pictures of
America in the Library of Congress
