(Source of picture: Florida State Archives)

You'd really get footsore in Timucua times, if it weren't for canoes.  These vessels were the principle means of transportation.  The Timucua had no horses or other draft animals.

GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE -- According to the French leader Jean Ribault, each Timucua canoe could carry up to 15 to 20 individuals.  The vessels averaged 18 feet long. 

Canoes moved swiftly, with rowers standing upright while plying their oars.   As shown above, the Timucua carved each vessel from a single log of pine or cypress.  They demonstrated tremendous patience while at work.  They gradually hollowed the canoe's body by burning, and they controlled the fire with dams of wet clay.  Bit by bit, they sculpted & cut out cut out the scorched wood.