This book is the history of the Timucua, an American Indian people who thrived for centuries in Northeast Florida only to become extinct within 250 years of coming in contact with European settlers. The Timucua Indians were among the first of the American Indians to meet with Europeans, when Spaniard Ponce de Leon landed on the Florida coast in 1513. Thousands of archaeological sites, shell middens, ceremony and burial mounds, still dot the landscape, offering mute testimony to the former presence of the Timucua Indians and their ancestors. By the mid-1700s the Timucua Indians had disappeared, extinguished by the ravages of colonialism. This book identifies who the Timucua Indians were, how they lived, and why they vanished; also included are copies of the original 42 engravings by Theodore DeBry of paintings by French artist Jacques LeMoyne of early life among the Timucua Indians.