 His people came into direct contact with the French when Fort Caroline was built by René Goulaine de Laudonnière two years later.The largest and best attested of the Timucua subgroup known as the Mocama, the Saturiwa occupied an area from the mouth of the St. Johns towards what is now downtown Jacksonville, and up and down the adjacent Atlantic coast from St. Augustine north to the St. Marys River.According to the French, Saturiwa was sovereign over thirty other villages and their chiefs, ten of whom were said to be his "brothers".