Argues that Henry Dobyns has been derelict in his use of sources in his assertion that there were some 700,000 Timucuan Indians in Florida ca. 1500, and thereby forfeits the right to have his arguments accepted. Dobyns' use of data from a number of sources to persuade readers that the sharp decline in numbers he postulates is to be attributed to numerous epidemics; Role of epidemics in New World depopulation.