The Franciscan Friar Sebastian de Sabastades encountered the deserter Jimenez Maldonado near the springs of the Escambia River (also called the Conecuh River) in Central Alabama. So disfigured with syphilis was the old Conquistador that the friar thought at first he had encountered a Blemmye. These were medieval cryptid humanoids believed to live in Nubia near the kingdom of the legendary Prester John. Through Maldonado's incredible testimony, Sabastades learned of the kingdom of the Koasati, an ancient pre-Columbian people of the Nickajack, and the paradise of the New World that by then had already been extirpated by the Great Columbian Exchange.
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