HIST to read-from-minibuffer

[Leo]

Hello,

I am trying to read a string with a hist variable. I want the default to
be the first element of the hist variable and the history to start from
the SECOND element.

I can seem to get the behaviour I want with '(hist . 1) but not '(hist .
2). However the doc string says:

 "positions are counted starting from 1 at the beginning of the list"

This looks contradictory to the behaviour I observed. Is this a mistake
on my understand or the doc string? Thanks.

Leo