Los Sobrevivientes de La Florida


 Passenger register 657
 Juan Lopez 700
 Sebastian de Villegas 700

 From Cuba to Florida

 Royal Officials 513
 Hemandez de Biedma 620
 Rodrigo Rangel 570
 Garcilaso de la Vega 1,000
 Pedro de Arevalo 650
 Francisco de Guzman 650

 From Spain and Cuba to Florida

 J. R. Swanton, including repetitions 793



 3. Number of Survivors

 The most detailed account on the number of survivors comes
from the Gentleman of Elvas. He wrote that 322 Spaniards
embarked in seven brigantines at Aminoya to sail down the present
day Mississippi River. When confronted by Cacique Quigaltam
and his people a short distance downstream, eleven men were lost.
The rest continued towards the river mouth and then to Mexico.
Elvas added that 311 Christians, who had departed Florida, finally
reached the port of Panuco, New Spain.10 Garcilaso de la Vega
indicated that slightly fewer than 300 survivors rejoined their new
Governor, Luis de Moscoso, at Panuco.11

 Another important source on the survivors is a record
following Hemandez de Biedma's account of the Florida
expedition, here referred to as Hernandez de Biedma's list.12 He
titled it "Memoir of the Names of Persons Who Came from
Florida, Who They Are, And of What Countries Native." Under
subtitles corresponding to different geographical areas and cities,