Mocoso

Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, who was a captive of various tribes in Florida from about 1549 until about 1566, described Mocoso as a "kingdom by [it]self", i.e., not part of the Calusa domain.

[1] The de Soto expedition found Juan Ortíz, a Spaniard, living with the Mocoso.

Ortiz had been captured by the Uzita while searching for the lost Narváez expedition, and had later escaped to Mocoso.

Ortiz had learned the Timucua language and served de Soto as an interpreter as he traversed the Timucuan-speaking areas on his way to Apalachee.

Hann suggests that the Mocoso on Tampa Bay had incurred the wrath of other tribes in the area by aiding the de Soto expedition and were forced to withdraw into the interior, ending up in Acuera.