discourses being marueilous sorie that we could not vnderstand thē A few dayes after they began to beare good wil toward me so heartie good will I say that as I thinke they would rather haue perished with hunger and thirst then haue taken their refection at any mans hand but mine Seing this their great good will I sought to learn some Indian wordes and began to aske them questions shewing them the thing whereof I desired to know the name how they called it They were very glad to tell it me and knowing the desire that I had to learne their language they incouraged me afterward to aske them euerye thing So that putting downe in writing the wordes and phrases of the Indian speech I was able to vnderstand the greatest part of their discourses Euery day they did nothing but speake vnto me of the desire that they had to vse me well if we returned vnto their houses and cause me to receiue all the pleasures that they coulde deuise aswell in hunting as in seeing their verye strange and superstitious ceremonies at a certaine feast which they call Toya Which feast they obserue as straightly as wee obserue the sunday They gaue me to vnderstand that they would bring me to see the greatest Lord of this countrey which they called Chiquola which exceedeth them in height as they tolde me a good foote and a halfe They said vnto me that he dwelt within the land in a very large place and inclosed exceeding high but I coulde not not learne wherewith And as farre as I can iudge this place whereof they spake vnto me was a very faire citie For they sayde vnto me that within the inclosure there was greate store of houses which were built very high wherein there was an infinite number of men like vnto themselues which made none account of golde of siluer nor of pearles seeing they had thereof in aboundance I began then to shew them al the parts of heauen to the intent to learne in which quarter they dwelt And straightway one of them stretching forth his hand shewed me that they dwelt toward the North which maketh mee thinke that it was in the riuer of Iordan And now I remember that in the reigne of the Emperour Charles the fift certaine Spaniardes inhabitants of Saint Domingo which made a voyage to get certaine slaues to worke in their mynes stole away by suttletie the inhabitants of this riuer to the number of fortie thinking to carry them into their new Spaine But they lost their labour for in despite they died all for hunger sauing one that was brought to the Emperour which a little while after he caused to be baptised and gaue him his owne name called him Charles of Chiquola because he spake so much of this Lorde of Chiquola whose subiect he was Also as men woorthy credite haue assured me he reported continually that Chiquola made his abode within a very great inclosed citie Besides this proofe those which were left there in the first voyage haue certified me that the Indians shewed them by euident signes that farther within the land on y ◠foresaide part toward the North there was a great enclosure or Citie and within the same manye faire houses wherein Chiquola dwelt But not to digresse from my matter I wil returne to the Indian which took so great delight in speaking to me of this Chiquola that there neuer passed anie one day wherein hee did not discourse of some rare thing concerning the same After they had stayed a while in our shippes they beganne to be sorie and still demaunded of me when they shoulde returne I made them vnderstande that the Captaines will was to sende them home againe but that first he would bestow apparrel of them which few dayes after was deliuered vnto them But seeing he would not giue them licence to depart they resolued with themselues to steale away by night and to get a little boate which we had and by the helpe of the tide to sayle homeward towarde their dwellinges and by this meanes to saue thēselues Which thing they failed not to doe and put their enterprise in execution yet leauing behind them the apparel which the Captaine had giuen them and carrying away nothing but that which was their owne shewing wel hereby that they were not void of reason The Captaine cared not greatly for their departure considering they had not beene vsed otherwise then well and that therefore they woulde not estrange themselues from the Frenchmen Captaine Ribault therefore knowing the singular fairenesse of this riuer desired by all meanes to encourage some of his men to dwell there well foreseeing that this thing might bee of greate importaunce for the Kinges seruice and the reliefe of the common wealth of Fraunce Therefore proceeding on with his intent he commaunded the ankers to be weighed and to set things in order to returne vnto the opening of the riuer to the end that if the winde came faire he might passe out to accomplish the rest of his meaning When therefore we were come to the mouth of the riuer he made them cast anker whervpon we stayed without discouering any thing all the rest of the day The next day he commaunded that all the men of his ship should come vp vppon the decke saying that he had somewhat to say vnto them They all came came vp and immediately the Caytaine beganne to speake vnto them in this manner I thinke there is none of you that is ignoraunt of howe greate consequence this our enterprise is and also howe acceptable it is to our young king Therefore my friends as one desiring your honour and benefite I woulde not fayle to aduertise you all of the exceeding greate good happe which shoulde fall to them which as men of valure and worthy courage would make triall in this our first discouerie of the benefites and commodities of this newe lande which should be as I assure my selfe the greatest occasion that euer could happen vnto them to arise vnto the title and degree of honour And for this cause I was desirous to propose vnto you and set downe before your eies the eternall memorie which of right they deserue which forgetting both their parentes and their countrey haue had the courage to enterprise a thing of such importance which euen kinges themselues vnderstanding to be men aspiring to so high degree of magnanimitie and increase of their maiesties doe not disdaine so wel to regarde that afterwardes employing them in matters of weight and of high enterprise they make their names immortal for euer How beit I woulde not haue you perswade your selues as manie do that you shall neuer haue such good fortune as not being knowen neither to the king nor the Princes of the Realme and besides descending of so poore a stock that few or none of your parents hauing euer made profession of armes haue beene knowen vnto the great estates For
histories also by the troubles which lately happened vnto Christopher Columbus after his first discouery to Francis Pizarro Diego de Almagro in Peru and to Fernand Cortes An hundred thousand other thinges came vnto my minde to incourage and confirme me My Lieuetenaunt Ottigny and my Sergeaurunt of my band came to seeke me in the shippe where I was prisoner and carried me from thence in a barke assoone as our rebels were departed After I was come vnto the fort I caused all my companye that remained to bee assembled in the middest of the place before the corps de garde and declared vnto them the faultes which they which had forsaken vs had committed praying them to beare them in memorie to beare witnesse thereof when neede shoulde require Forthwith I ordained newe Captaines to commaund the troupes and prescribed them an order according where-vnto they were to gouerne themselues from thence forwarde and to enter into their watch for the greatest parte of the souldyers of whome I had the best opinion were gone away with them My declaration ended they promised me all with one accorde to obey me most humblie and to doe whatsoeuer I shoulde commaunde them though it were to die at my féete for the kinges seruice wherein assuredly they neuer after fayled So that I dare say after the departure of my mutinous companions I was as well obeyed as euer was Captayne in place where hee commaunded The next day after my returne vnto the fort I assembled my men together agayne to declare vnto them that our fort was not yet finished and that it was néedefull that all of vs shoulde put thereto our helping handes to assure our selues against the Indians Wherein hauing willingly agréed vnto me they raised it all with turfes from the gate vnto the riuer which is on the west side This done I set my Carpenters on worke to make another barke of the same bignesse that the others were of I commanded the sawiers that they should prepare plancks the Smithes to prepare yron and Nayles and certayne others to make coales so that the barke was finished in eightéene dayes Afterwarde I made an other lesser then the first the better to discouer vp the riuer In this meane space the Indians visited me and brought me daily certaine presents as fish deare Turkicockes Leopards little Beares and other things according to the place of their habitation I recompensed them with certayne hatchets kniues beads of glasse combes and looking-glasses Two Indians came vnto me one day to salute me on the behalfe of their king whose name was Marracou dwelling from the place of our fort some fortie leagues toward the South and tolde me that there was one in the house of King Onathaqua which was called Barbu or the bearded man and in the house of king Mathiaca another man whose name they knew not which was not of their nation wherupon I conceiued that these might be some Christians Wherefore I sent to all the kinges my neighbours to pray them that if there were any Christian dwelling in their countries they would finde meanes that hee might be brought vnto me and that I woulde make them double recompence They which loue rewardes tooke somuch payne that the two men whereof wee haue spoken were brought vnto the fort vnto mee They were naked wearing their heires long vnto their hammes as the sauages vse to doe and were Spaniards borne yet so well accustomed to the fashion of the countrie that at the first sight they found our manner of apparell straunge After that I had questioned of certayne matters with theÌ„ I caused them to be apparelled and to cut their heire which they would not loose but lapped it vp in a lynen cloth saying that they woulde carie it into their countrey to be a testimonie of the miserie that they had indured in the Indies In the heire of one of them was founde a little golde hidden to the value of fiue and twentie Crownes which hée gaue vnto me And examining them of the places where they had beene and howe they came thither they answered mee that fiftéene yeares past thrée shippes in one of which they were were cast away ouer against a place named Calos vppon the Flates which are called The Martyrs and that the king of Calos recouered the greatest part of the riches which were in the saide shippes traueiling in such sort that the greatest part of the people was saued and many women among which number there were thrée or foure women married remaining there yet and their children also with this king of Calos I desired to learne what this king was they answered me that he was the goodliest and the tallest Indian of the countrey a mightie man a warrier and hauing many subiectes vnder his obedience They tolde me moreouer that hee had great store of golde and syluer so farre foorth that in a certayne village hée had a pit full thereof which was at the least as high as a man and as large as a tunne all which wealth the Spaniards fully perswaded themselues that they coulde cause me to recouer if I were able to marche thither with an hundred shotte besides that which I might get of the common people of the countrie which had also great store thereof They further also aduertised me that the women going to daunce did we are about their girdles plates of golde as broade as a sawcer and in such number that the weight did hinder them to dance at theyr ease and that the men ware the like also The greatest part of these riches was had as they sayde out of the Spanish â—â—ppes which commonly were cast away in this straight and the rest by the traficke which this king of Calos had with the other kings of the countrie finallie that hée had in great reuerence of his subiectes and that hee made them beléene that his sorceries and charmes were the causes that made the earth bring foorth her fruite and that hee might the easier perswade them that it was so he retyred himselfe once or twise a yeare to a certaine house accompanied with two or thrée of his most familier friendes where hee vsed certayne inchauntmentes and if any man intruded himselfe to goe to sée what they did in this place the king immediately caused him to bee put to death Moreouer they tolde mee that euery yeare in the time of haruest this sauage king sacrificed one man which was kepte expressely for this purpose and taken out of the number of the Spaniardes which by tempest were cast away vppon that coste One of these two declared vnto mee that hee had serued him a long time for a messenger and that oftentimes by his commaundement hee had visited a king named Oathcaqua distant from Calos foure or fiue dayes iourney which alwayes remayned his faithfull friende but that in the midway there was an Ilande situate in a great
to beginne agayne without all doubt he should haue had very much to do for by this meane they lacked arrowes and so were constrayned to retyre themselues During the time of the conflict they cryed and made signes that they were the captaines and lieutenants friendes and that they fought for none other cause but to be reuenged on the soldiers which were their mortall enimies My lieutenant being come vnto his boates tooke a reuewe of his company and found two men wanting which were killed of whome the one was called Iames Sale and the others name was Mesureur He founde moreouer two and twentie of them wounded which with much adoe he caused to bee brought vnto the boates All the mill that he found among his company came but to two mens burthens which hee deuided equally among them For assoone as the conflict beganne euery man was constrained to leaue his sacke to put his hande vnto his weapon In this meane while I remayned at the forte and caused euery man diligently to trauell hoping that my Lieutenant woulde bring vs victuals But seéing the time consume away I began to suspect the crueth of that which fell out whereof I was assured immediately after at their returne Seéing therefore mine hope frustrate on that side I made my prayer vnto GOD and thanked him of his grace which he had shewed vnto my poore soldiers which were escaped Afterward I thought vppon newe meanes to obtayne victuals aswell for our returne into France as to driue out the time vntill our embarking I was aduertised by certayne of our companie which vsually went on hunting into the woodes and through the villages that in the village Sarauahi situated on the other side of the riuer and two leagues distant from the fort and in the village Emoloa there were fieldes wherein the mil was very forwarde and that there was thereof in those partes in great aboundance Wherefore I caused my boates to be made readie and sent my Sergeant thither with certayne soldiers which vsed such diligence that wee had good store of myl I sent also to the riuer which the Sauages cal Iracana named by captaine Ribault the riuer of Somme where Captayne Vasseur and my sergeant arriued with two boates and their ordinarie furniture and founde there a great assemblie of the Lordes of the countrey among whom was Athore the sonne of Satourioua Appolou and Tacadocorou which were there assembled to make merrie because that in this place are the fairest maides women of al the countrey Captaine Vasseur in my name gaue certaine smal trifles to all the Lords to the Quéene to the maydes and women of the villages Whereupon the boates were foorth with laden with myl after they had made our men as good cheére as they could deuise The Queéne sent mee two small Mats so artificially wrought as it was vnpossible to make better Now finding our selues by this meane sufficiently furnished with victuals we began ech of vs in his place to trauaile vse such diligence as the desire to seé our natiue countrie might moue vs. But because two of our Carpenters were slaine by the Indians as heretofore I mentioned Iohn de Hais Master carpenter a man very worthie of his vocation repaired vnto me and tolde me that by reason of want of men hee was not able to make me vp the ship against the time that hee had promised mee which speach caused such a mutinie among the soldiers that verie hardly he escaped killing howbeit I appeased them aswell as I could and determined to worke no more from thence foorth vpon the shippe but to content our selues to repaire the Brigantine which I had So we beganne to beate downe all the houses that were without the forte and caused coales to be made of the tymber thereof likewise the soldiers beate downe the pallisade which was towarde the waters side neither was I euer able to keepe them from doing it I had also determined to beate downe the fort before my departure and to set it on fire for feare least some newe-come gueste shoulde haue enioyed and possessed it In the meane while there was none of vs to whome it was not an extreéme griefe to leaue a countrey wherein we had endured so great trauailes and necessities to discouer that which we must forsake through our owne countriemens default For if we had beéne succoured in time and place and according to the promise that was made vnto vs the warre which was betweéne vs and Vtina had not fallen out neither shoulde we haue had occasion to offend the Indians which with al paines in the world I entertayned in good amitie aswell with marchandise and apparell as with promise of greater matters and with whome I so behaued my selfe that although sometimes I was constrayned to take victuals in some fewe villages yet I lost not the alliance of eight kings and Lords my neighbours which continually succoured and ayded me with whatsoeuer they were able to afford Yea this was the principall scope of all my purposes to winne and entertaine them knowing howe greatly their amitie might aduance our enterprise and principally while I discouered the commodities of the countrey and sought to strengthen my selfe therein I leaue it to your cogitation to thinke how neere it went to our heartes to leaue a place abounding in riches as we were throughly enformed thereof in cōming whereunto and doing seruice vnto our Prince we left our owne countrie wiues children parentes and friendes and passed the perils of the sea and were therein arriued as in a plentifull treasure of all our heartes desire As ech of vs were much tormented in minde with these or such like cogitations the thirde of August I discryed foure sayles in the sea as I walked vppon a little hill whereof I was exceeding well appaide I sent immediately one of them which were with mee to aduertise those of the fort thereof which were so glad of those newes that one would haue thought them to bee out of their wittes to see them laugh and leape for ioy After these shippes had cast ancre we discried that they sent one of their ship boates to lande whereupon I caused one of mine to be armed with diligence to send to meete them and to know who they were In the meane while fearing least they were Spaniards I set my soldiers in order in readines attending the returne of Captaine Vasseur and my lieutenant which were gone to meete them which brought mee word that they were Englishmen in truth they had in their cōpanie one whose name was Martine Atinas of Diepe which at that time was in their seruice which on the behalfe of Maister Iohn Hawkins their generall came to request meé that I woulde suffer them to take fresh water whereof they stood in great neéde signifiyng vnto me that they had beene aboue fifteéne daies on the coast to get some
to light In the meane season I humbly commende my selfe and this my translation vnto you and your selfe and all those which vnder you haue taken this enterprise in hand to the grace good blessing of the Almightie which is able to build further and to finish the good worke which in these our dayes he hath begunne by your most Christian and charitable endeuour Your L. humble at commandement R. H. The preface THere are two thinges which according to mine opinioâ—â— haue been the principall causes in consideration whereof aswell they of auncient times as those of our age haue been enduced to trauell into farre and remote regions The first hath beene the naturall desire which we haue to serch out the commodities to liue happely plentifully and at ease be it whether one abandon his naturall cuntrie altogether to dwell in a better or bee it that men make voiages thither there to serch out and bring from thence such thinges as are there to bee found and are in greatest estimation and in most request in our cuntries The second cause hath beene the multitude of people too frutefull in generation which being no longer able to dwell in their natiue soyles haue entred vppon their neighbours limites and oftentimes passing further haue pearced euen vnto the vttermost regions After this sorte the north climate a frutefull father of so many nations hath oftentimes sent foorth this way and that way his valiant people and by this meane hath peopled infinite countries so that most of the nations of Europe drawe their original from these partes Contrariwise the more southern regions because they be too barraine by reason of their insupportable heate which raigneth in them neede not any such sending foorth of their in habitances and haue beene oftentimes constrained to receaue other people more often by force ofarmes then willingly All Africke Spaine and Italie can also testifie the same which neuer so abounded with people that they had neede to send them abroode to inhabite else where as on the contrary Scythia Norway Gotland and France haue done The posterite of which nations remaineth yet not only in Italie Spaine and Affricke but also in frutefull and faire Asia Neuerthelesse I find that the Romains proceding farther or rather adding vnto these two chiefe causes aforesayd as being most curious to plant not only their ensignes and victories but also their lawes customes and religion in those provinces which they had conquered by force ofarmes haue oftentimes by the decree of their soueraine Senate sent forth inhabitantes which they called colonies thinking by this way to make their name immotall euen to the vnfurnishing of their owne countrye of the forces which should haue perserued the same in her perfection a thing which hindred them much more then advanced them to the possession of the vniversall monarchie where vnto their intention did aspyre For it came to passe that their colonies here and there being miserably sacked by strang people did vtterly ruine and ouerthrowe their empire The brinkes of the riuer of Rine are yet red those of Danubius are noe lesse bloodie and our France be came fatte with their blood which they lost These are the effectes and rewardes of al such as being pricked forward with this Romaine and tirannicall ambition will goe aboute thus to subdue strange people effectes I say contrarie to the profitte which those shall receaue which only are affectioned to the common benefitte that is to say to the generall pollicie of all men and endeuour to vnite them one with another as well by trasicke and forraine conuersations as also by militarie vertues and force of armes whenas the sauages wil not yeeld vnto their endeuours so much tending vnto their profite For this cause princes haue sent foorth out of their dominions certaine men of good actiuitie to plante themselues in strang countries there to make their profite to bring the countrie to ciuilitie and if it might be to reduce the inhabitantes to the true knowledg of our God an end so much more commédable as it is farre from all tiranicall and cruell gouernement and so they haue alwayes thriued in their enterprises and by lyttle and little gained the hartes of them which they haue conquered or wonne vnto them by any meanes Here of we may gather that sometimes it is good yea very expedient to send foorth men to discouer the pleasure and commoditie of strang countries But so that the country out of which these companies are to passe remayne not weakned nor depriued of her forces And againe in such sorte that the companie sent forth be of so iuste and sufficient number that it may not bee defeited by strangers which euery foote endeuour nothing else but to surprise the same vpon the suddaine As within these fewe dayes past the french haue proued to my great greife being able by no meanes possible to withstand the same considering that the elementes men and al the fauours which might be hoped for of a faithful and Christian alliance fought against vs which thing I purpose to discouer in this preseÌ„t historie with so euident truth that the kings maiestie my souerainge prince shall in parte be satisfied of the diligence which I haue vsed in his seruice and myne aduersaries shall find themselues so discouered in their false reportes that they shall haue no place of refuge But before I beginne I wil brefely set downe the situation and description of the land where vnto we haue failed and where we haue inhabited from the yeare 1561 vnto sixtie fiue to the ende that those thinges may the more easily be borne a way which I meane to describe in this discourse ¶ The description of the West Indies in generall but chiefly and particularly of Florida THat part of the earth which at this day wee call the fourth part of the world or America or the West India was unknowen vnto our auncestors by reason of the great distance thereof In like manner all the Westerne Ilandes and fortunate Isles were not discouered but by those of our age Howbeit there haue beene some which haue said that they were discouered in the time of Augustus Caesar and that Virgil hath made mention thereof in the sixt booke of his Aeneidos when he saith That there is a lande beyond the starres and the course of the yeere and of the sunne where Atlas the Porter of heauen sustaineth the pole vpon his shoulders neuerthelesse it is easie to iudge that he meaneth not to speake of this land whereof no man is founde to haue written before his time neither yet aboue a thousand yeeres after Christopher Colon did first light vpon this lande in the yeere 1492. And fiue yeeres after Americus went thither by the commaundement of the king of Castile and gaue vnto it his owne name wherevpon afterward it was called America This man was very well seene in the Arte of Nauigation and in Astronomie whereby be discouered
in his time many landes vnknowen vnto the auncient Geographers This countrey is named by some the land of Bresill and the lande of Parots It stretcheth it selfe according vnto Postel from the one pole to the other sauing at the straight of Magelan wherevnto it reacheth three and fiftie degrees beyonde the equator I will deuide it for the better vnderstanding into three principall partes That which is toward the pole Articke or the North is called newe Fraunce because that in the yeere 1524 Iohn Verarsana a Florentine was sent by king Frauncis the first and by Madam the Regent his mother vnto these newe regions where he went on land and discouered all the Coste which is from the tropicke of Cancer to witte from the eight and twentith vnto the fiftith degree and farther to the North. Hee planted in this Countrey the ensignes and armes of the king of Fraunce so that the Spaniardes themselues which were there afterward haue named this Countrey Terra Francesca The same then extendeth it selfe in Latitude from the 25. degree vnto the 54 toward the North and in Longitude from 210. vnto 330. The Easterne part thereof is called by the late Writers the lande of Norumbega which beginneth at the Bay of Gama which separateth it from the Isle of Canada whither Roberuall and Iaques Carter sayled the yeere 1535. About the which there are many Ilands among which is that which is named Terra de Labrador stretching toward Groneland In the Westerne parte there are many knowne countries as the Region of Quiuira Ceuola Astatlan and Terlichichimici The Southerne part is called Florida because it was discouered on Palmesunday which the Spaniards call Pascha Florida The Northerne part is altogether vnknowen The second part of all America is called Newe Spaigne It extendeth from the tropick of Cancer in the 23. degrees and a half vnto the nienth degree In the same is scituated the citie of Themistitan and it hath many regions and many Ilandes adioyned vnto it which are called the Antilles whereof the most famous and renounced are Hispaniola and Isabella with an infinite number of others All this land together with the Bay of Mexico and all the Islandes aforesaide haue not in longitude past seuentie degrees to wit from the 240. vnto three hundreth and ten it is also long and narrow as Italie The third part of America is called Peru it is very great and extendeth it selfe in latitude from the tenth degree vnto the 53. beyond the equator to wit as I haue saide before vnto the straite of Magelan It is made in fashion like to an egge and is very well knowne vppon all sides The parte where it is largest hath threescore degrees and from thence it waxeth narrower and narrower toward both the endes In one part of this land Villegagnon planted right vnder the tropicke of Capricorne and he called it Fraunce Antarticke because it draweth toward the pole Antarticke as our Fraunce doth toward the Articke New Fraunce is almost as great as all our Europe Howbeit the most knowne and inhabited parte thereof is Florida whether many Frenchman haue made diuerse voyages at sundry times in so much that now it is the best known countrie which is in al this parte of new Fraunce The Cape thereof is as it were a long head of land streatching out into the Sea an hundred leagues and runneth directly toward the South it hath right ouer against it 25. leagues distant the Isle of Cuba otherwise called Isabella toward the East the Isles of Bahama Lucaya and toward the West the Bay of Mexico The Countrie is flat and deuided with diuers riuers and therefore moyst and is sandie towards the Sea shore There groweth in those parts great quantitie of Pynetrees which haue no kernels in the Aples which they beare Their Woods are full of Oakes Walnuttrees blacke Cherietrees Mulbury trees Lentiskes and Chestnut trees which are not naturall as those in Fraunce There is great store of Ceders Cypresses Bayes Palme trees Hollies and wilde Uines which clime vp along the trees and beare good Grapes There is there a kind of Medlers the fruit whereof is better then that of Fraunce and bigger There are also Plum trees which beare very fayre fruite but such as is not very good There are Raspisses and a little bearie which we call among vs Blues which are very good to eate There growe in that Countrie a kind of Roots which they call in their language Hatseh whereof in necessitie they make bread There is also there the tree called Esquiue which is very good against the Pocks and other cōtagious diseases The Beasts best known in this Country are Stags Hinds Goats Deare Beares Leopards Owneces Luserns diuers sortes of Wolues wilde Dogs Hares Cunnies and a cretaine kind of beast that differeth little from the Lion of Affrica The Foules are Turkeycockes Partridges Parrots Pigions Ringdoues Turtles Blackbirds Crowes Tarcels Faulcons Laynerds Herons Cranes Storkes wild Geese Malards Cormorans Egrepts white red blacke and gray and an infinite sorte of all wilde foule There is such aboundance of Crocodiles that often times in swimming men are assayled by them of Serpents there are many sortes There is found among the Sauages good quantitie of Gold and Siluer which is gotten out of the Ships that are lost vpon the cost as I haue vnderstood by the sauages themselues They vse traffick therof one with another And that which maketh me the rather beleeue it is that on the cost toward the Cape where commonly the Ships are cast away there is more store of siluer then toward the North. Neuerthelesse they say that in the Mountaynes of Appalatcy there are mines of Copper which I thinke to be golde There is also in this Countrey great store of graynes and herbes whereof might bee made excellent good dyes and paintings of all kind of colours And in truth the Indians which take great pleasure in painting of their skins know very well how to vse the same The men are of an Oliue colour of great stature fayre without any deformitie and well proportioned They couer their priuities with the skin of a stagge wel dressed The most part of them haue their bodies armes thighes painted with very fayre deuises the paynting whereof can neuer be taken away because the same is pricked into their flesh Their haire is very blacke and reacheth euen downe to their hippes howbeit they trusse it vp after a fashion that becometh them very well They are great dissemblers and traytors valiant of their persons and fight very well They haue none other weapons but their Bowes and Arrowes They make the string of their bow of a gutte of a stagge or of a stagges skinne which they know how to dresse as well as any man in Fraunce and with as many different sorts of coloures They head their arrowes with the teeth of Fishes and stone which they work
purposed to goe on land where I suffered him to depart after I had giuen him a shirte and certain small trifles wherewith he departed very well content with vs. The place where we went on shore was hard by a very hie Rocke out of which there ran a litle riuer of sweet and excellent good water by which riuer we stayed certayne dayes to discouer the things which were worthy to bee seen traficked dayly with the Indians which aboue all thinges besought vs that none of our men should come neere their lodgings nor their Gardens otherwise that we should giue them great cause of ielosie and that in so doing wee should not want of their fruit which they call Ananas whereof they offered vs very liberally receiuing in recompence certaine things of small value This notwithstanding it hapned on a day that certaine of my men desirous to see some new things in these strange countries walked through the woods and following still the little riuers side they espied two Serpents of exceeding bignesse which went side by side ouerthwarte the way my soldiers went before them thinking to let them from going into the woods but the serpents nothing at all astonished with these gestures glaunced into the bushes with fearefull hissings for all which my men drewe their swordes and killed them and found them afterward nine great foote long and as bigge as a mans legge During this combate certaine others more vndiscreete went and gathered their Ananas in the Indians Gardens trampling through them without any discretion and nâ—t therewithall contented they went toward their dwellings whereat the Indians were so much offended that without regarding any thing they rushed vpon them and discharged their shot so that they hit one of my men named Martin Chaueau which remayned behinde Wee coulde not knowe whether hee were killed on the place or whether he were taken prisoner for those of his company had inough to doe to saue themselues without thinking of their companion Whereof Monsur de Ottigni my Lieuetenant being aduertised sent vnto me to know whether I thought good that he shuld lay an ambush for the Indians which had either taken or killed our man or whether hee should goe directly to their dwellinges to knowe the truth I sent vnto him after good delebration hereupon that hee should not attempt any thing and that for diuers occasions but contrariwise that he should embarke himself with all diligence and consequently all they that were on land which hee did with speede But as he sayled toward our shippes he perceiued a long the shore a great number of Indians which beganne to charge them with their Arrowes he for his part discharged store of shotte against them yet was not able to hurte them or by any meanes to surprise them for which cause he quite forsooke them came vnto our ship Where staying vntill the next day morning we sette sayle following our wonted course and keeping the same we discouered diuerse Iles conquered by the Spaniards as the Iles of S. Christopher of y e Saintes of Monserrada and la Rotonda Afterward we passed betweene Languilla aad la Negada sayling toward New Fraunce where we ariued fifteene dayes afterward to witte on a Thurseday the two and twenteth of Iune about three or foure of the clock in the morning and landed neere vnto a little Riuer which is thirtie degrees distant from the Equator and ten leagues aboue Cape François drawing toward the South and about thirtie leagues aboue the Riuer of May. After we had strooken sayle and cast Anker a thwart the Riuer I determined to goe on shore to discouer y â— same Therefore beiug accompanied with Monsur de Ottigny with Monsur de Arlac mine Ensigne a certaine number of Gentlemen and souldiers I embarked my selfe about three or foure of the clocke in the euening And being ariued at the mouth of the Riuer I caused the Chanell to be sounded which was found to be very shallow although that farther within the same y â— water was there found reasonable deepe which separateth it selfe into two great armes whereof one runneth toward the South and the other toward the North. Hauing thus searched the Riuer I went on lande to speake with the Indians which wayted for vs vpon the shore which at our comming on land came before vs crying with a loud voyce in their Indian language Antipola Bonassou which is as much to say as brother friend or some such like thing After they had made very much of vs they shewed vs their Paracoussy that is to say their king and gouernour to whom I presented certaine toyes wherewith he was wel pleased And for mine own part I praise God continually for the great loue which I haue found in these Sauages which were sory for nothing but that the night approched and made vs retire vnto our shippes For though they endeuoured by all meanes to make vs tarry with them and that they shewed by signes the desire they had to present vs with some rare things yet neuerthelesse for many iust and reasonable occasions I would not stay on shore all night but excusing my selfe for al their offers I embarked my selfe againe and returned toward my ships Howbeit before my departure I named this riuer the riuer of Dolphines because that at mine arriuall I sawe there a greate number of dolphines which were playing in the mouth thereof The next day the three and twentieth of this moneth because that toward the South I had not found any coÌ„modious place for vs to inhabite and to build a fort I gaue commaundement to weigh anker and to hoyse our sayles to sayle towarde the riuer of Maye where we arriued two dayes after and cast anker afterwarde going on land with some number of Gentlemen and Souldiers to knowe for a certaintie the singularities of this place wee espyed the Paracoussy of the countrey which came towards vs this was y â— very same y we saw in the voiage of Captaine Iohu Ribault which hauing espied vs cried very farre of Antipola Antipola and being so ioyful that he could not containe himselfe he came to meet vs accompanied then with two of his sonnes as faire mighty persons as might be found in all the world which had nothing in their mouthes but this word Amy Amy that is to say friend friend yea and knowing those which were there in the first voyage they went principally to them to vse this speech vnto them There was in their trayne a great number of men and women which still made very much of vs and by euident signes made vs to vnderstand how glad they were of our ariual This good entertainment past y e Paracoussy prayed me to go to see the piller which we had erected in the voyage of Iohn Ribault as we haue declared heretofore as a thing which they made great account of Hauing yeelded vnto him and being come to the place where it
down among the rest A litle while after he y â— had bin stroken fel down backwards stretching out his armes and legs as if he had bin ready to yeld vp the latter gaspe And then the younger sonne of the Paracoussy apparrelled in a long white skin fel down at the feet of him that was fallen backward weeping bitterly halfe a quarter of an houre after two other of his brethren clad in like apparel came about him that was so stricken began to sigh pitifully Their mother bearing a litle infant in her armes came from another part and going to the place where her sonnes were at the first she vsed infinit numbers of outcries then one while lifting vp her eies to heauen an other while falling down vnto the grouÌ„d she cried so dolefully that her lamentable mournings would haue moued the most hard stonie heart in the world with pity Yet this sufficed not for there came in a company of young gyrles which did neuer lyn weeping for a long while in the place where the Indian was falleÌ„ down whoÌ„ afterward they took with the saddest gestures they could deuise caried him away into another house a little way of from the great hal of the Paracoussy continued their weepings mournings by the space of two long houres in which meane while the Indians ceassed not to drink Cassine but w t such silence that one word was not heard in the parler Vasseur beeing grieued that hee vnderstood not these ceremonies demaunded of the Paracoussy what these thinges meant which answered him slowly Thimogoua Thimogoua with out saying any more Beeing more displeased then he was before with so slight an answeare he turned vnto another Indian the Paracoussyes brother who was a Paracoussy as well as his brother called Malica which made him a like answere as he did at the first praying him to aske no more of these matters and to haue patience for that time The subtile old Paracoussy praied him within a while after to shew him his sword which he would not deny him thinking that hee would haue behelde the fashion of his weapons but he soone perceiued that it was to another end for the old maÌ„ holding it in his hand beheld it a long while on euery place to see if he could find any blood vpon it which might shew that any of their enemies had bin killed for the Indians are woont to bring their weapons wherwith their enemies haue bin defeated with some blood vpoÌ„ theÌ„ for a token of their victories But seeing no signe thereof vpon it he was vpon the point to say vnto him that he had killed none of the meÌ„ of Thimogoua wheÌ„ as Vasseur preueÌ„ting that which he might obiect declared shewed to him by signes y â— maner of his enterprise adding that by reason of the 2. IndiaÌ„s which he had staine his swâ—râ— was so bloudy that he was inforced to wash make it cleane a long while in the riuer which the old man beleeued to be like to be true and made no maner of reply therevnto Vasseur la Caille and their other companions went out of the hall to go into the roome whither they had carried the Indian there they found the Paracoussy sitting vpon tapistries made of smal reeds which was at meat after y â— Indian fashion the Indian that was smitten hard by him lying vpoÌ„ the selfsame tapistry about whom stood the wife of the Paracoussy with all the young damsels which before bewailed him in the hall which did nothing els but warme a great deale of mosse in steede of napkins to rub the Indians side HerevpoÌ„ our men asked the Paracoussy again for what occasioÌ„ the Indian was so persecuted in his preseÌ„ce he answered y â— this was nothing els but a kind of ceremony whereby they would cal to mind y â— death persecutioÌ„s of y â— Paracoussies their ancestors executed by their enemy Thimogoua alledging moreouer that as ofteÌ„ as he himself or any of his friends alies returned froÌ„ the countrey without they brought the heads of their enimies or without bringing home some prisoner he vsed for a perpetual memory of al his predecessors to beate the best beloued of all his children with the selfsame weapons wherewith they had bin killed in times past to the ende that by renewing of the wounde their death should be lamented afresh Now when they were thus informed of those ceremonies they thanked the Paracoussy for their good entertainement which they had receiued and so setting saile came to me vnto the fort where they declared all vnto me as I haue recited it heretofore The eight and tweentieth of Iulie our shippes departed to returne into France And with in a while about two monethes after our arriuall in Florida the Paracoussy Satourioüa sent certaine Indians vnto me to know whether I would stand to my promise which I had made him at my first arriuall in that countrie which was that I would shew my selfe friend to his friendes and enemie vnto his enemies and also to accompanie him with a good number of Hargabushes when he should see it expedient and should finde a fit occasion to goe to warre nowe seeing he rested vpon this promise he prayed me not to deferre the same seeing also that making accompt thereof he had taken such good order for the execution of his enterprise that he was readie and was furnished with all thinges that were necessarie for the voyage I made him aunswere that for his amitie I would not purchase the enmitie of the other and that albeit I would yet notwithstanding I wanted meanes to doe it For it behooued me at that present to make prouision of victuals and munitioÌ„ for the defence of my fort On the otherside that my Barkes were nothing readie and that this enterprise woulde require time moreouer that the Paracoussy Satourioua might holde himselfe readie to depart within two monethes and that then I would thinke of fulfilling my promise to him The Indians carried this answere to their Paracoussy which was litle pleased withit because he could not deferre his execution or expedition aswell because all his victuals were readie as also because tenne other Paracoussies were assembled with him for the performance of this enterprise The ceremonie which this sauage vsed before hee embarked his armie deserueth not to bee forgotten For when hee was set downe by the riuers side being compassed about with tenne other Paracoussies he commanded water to be brought him speedily This done looking vp into heauen hee fell to discourse of diuerse thinges with gestures that shewed him to bee in exceeding great cholere which made him one while shake his head hither and thither and by and by with I wote not what furie to turne his face towarde the countrey of his enemies and to threaten to kill them He often times looked vpon the sonne praying him to graunt him a glorious victorie of his enemies Which
space of some three leagues that it may containe in length and breadth a man maye see an exceeding riche countrie and marueilou fly peopled At the comming out of the village of Edelano to go vnto the riuers side a man must passe through an allie aboute three hundred pases long and fiftie paces broade on both sides whereof greate trees are planted the boughes whereof are tied together like an arche and meete together so artificiallye that a man woulde thinke it were an arboure made of purpose as faire I saye as any in all christendome although it be altogether naturall Our men departing from this place rowed to Eneguape then to Chilily from thence to Patica lastly they came vnto Coya where leuing their barks in a little creeke of the riuer with men to gard them they went to visit Vtina which receaued them very courteously and when they departed from his house hee entreated them so earnestly that sixe of my men remained with him of which nūber there was one gentleman named Groutauld which after he had aboade there aboute two monethes and taken great paines to discouer the countrie with another which I had left a great while there to that intent came vnto mee to the fort and tolde mee that he neuer sawe a fairer countrie Amonge other thinges he reported vnto me that he had sene a place named Hostaqua that the king thereof was so mightie that he was able to bring three or foure thousand sauages to the field with whom if I would ioine enter in to league we might be able to reduce all the rest of the inhabitants vnto our obedience Besides that this king knewe the passages vnto the mountaine of Apalassi which the French men desired so greatly to attaine vnto and where the enimie of Hostaqua made his abode which was easie to be subdued if so be wee woulde enter into league together This king sent me a plate of a mynerall that came out of this mountayne out of the foote whereof there runneth a streame of golde or copper as the sauages thinke out of which they digge vp the sande with an holow and drie cane of a reéde vntill the cane be full afterwarde they shake it and finde that there are manie small graines of copper and syluer among this sande which giueth them to vnderstande that some rich myne must neéds be in the Mountaine And because the mountaine was not past fiue or sixe dayes iourney from our fort lying toward the northwest I determined assone as our supplie should come out of France to remoue our habitation vnto some riuers more toward the north that I might be neérer therunto One of my soldiers whose name was Peter Gamby which had remained a long space before in this countrie to learne the languages and trafficke with the Indians at the last came to the village of Edelano where hauing gotten together a certaine quantitie of gold and syluer purposing to returne vnto me he prayed the king of the village to lend him a Canoa which is a vessell made of one whole piece of wood which the Indians vse to fish with al and to row vpon the riuers which this lorde of Edelano graunted him But being greédy of the riches which he had he commanded two Indians which heé had charged to conduct him in the Canoa to murder him bring him the marchandise the gold which he had Which y ◠two traitors villanously executed for they knockt him in the head with an hatchet as he was blowing of the fire in the Canoa to seéth fishe The Paracoussy Vtina sent certayne dayes afterward to pray me to lende him a dosen or fifteéne of my shot to enuade his enimie Potanou sent me word that this enimie once vanquished he would make me passage yea and would conduct mee vnto the mountains in such sort that no man should be able to hinder me Then I assembled my men to demaunde theyr aduice as I was wont to doe in all mine enterprises The greater part was of opinion that I shoulde doe well to sende succour vnto this Paracoussy because it would be harde for mee to discouer any farther vp into the countrie without his helpe and that the Spaniards when they were employed in their conquestes did alwaies enter into alliance with some one king to ruine another Notwithstanding because I did alwayes mistrust the Indians and that the more after the last aduertisement that the Spaniards had giuen me I doubted least the small number which Vtina demaunded might incurre some danger wherefore I sent him thirtie shot vnder the charge of Lieuetenant Ottigny which stayed not aboue two dayes with Vtina while he prepared victuals for his voyage which ordinarily and according to the custome of the countrie are carried by women and yong boyes and by Hermaphrodites Vtina setting forward with threé hundred of his subiectes hauing ech of them their bowe and quiuer full of arrowes caused our thirtie shot to be placed in the forewarde and made them march all the day vntill that the night approching and hauing not gone past halfe the way they were enforced to lie alnight in the woodes neére a great sake and there to encampe themselues they seperated themselues by sixe and sixe making ech of them a fire about the place where their king lay for whose garde they ordayned a certayne number of those archars in whome hee put most confidence As soone as daye was come the campe of the Indians marched within threé leagues of Potanou There king Vtina requested my Lieutenant to graunt him foure or fiue of his men to goe and discouer the countrey which departed immediately and had not gone farre but they perceyued vpon a lake distant about threé leagues from the village of Potanou three Indians which fished in a Canoa Nowe the custome is that when they fishe in this lake they haue alwayes a companie of Watchmen armed with Bowes and Arrowes to garde the fishers Our men being hereof aduertised by those of the companie durst not passe any further for feare of falling into some ambushe Wherefore they returned towardes Vtina which suddenly sent them backe with a greater company to surprise the fishers before they might retyre and aduertise their king Potanou of the comming of his enimies Which they coulde not execute so politikely but that two of them escaped the third also did the best he could to saue himselfe by swimming in which meane while hee was staied with shotte of arrowes and they drew him starke dead vnto the bankes side where our Indians fleade of the skinne of his head cut of both his armes in the high way reseruing his haire for the triumphe which their king hoped to make for the defeate of his enimie Vtina fearing least Potanou aduertised by the Fishers which were escaped shoulde put himselfe in armes to withstand him valiantly asked counsell of his Iawa which is
at the end whereof they declared vnto me that they could not fully and wholy performe their promise that the vttermost that they could do for the present was to cause ech subiect to bring his burthen of myl To conclude they were content to do so on condition that I would send them their two pledges within ten daies As my lieuetenant was ready to depart I warned him aboue all things to take heede hee fell not into the Indians hands because I knew them to be very subtill and craftie to enterprise execute any thing to our disaduantage He departed therefore with his troupe came to the smal riuer whereinto we were accustomed to enter to approch as néere as we coulde vnto the village of Vtina being sixe french leagues distant frō thence There he went on shore put his men in good array and drewe streight towards the great house that was the kinges where the chiefe men of y ◠countrie were assembled which caused very great store of victuals to be brought now one then another in doing wherof they spent notwithstanding thrée or foure dayes in which meane while they gathered men together to set vpon vs in our retreite They vsed therfore many means to hold vs still in breath For one while they demanded their pledges another while séeing my liuetenant would not yeld to thē vntill such time as they had brought the victuals vnto the boats according to the agreement passed betweene vs they signified vnto him that the women and yong children were affraide out of all measure to see fire in their matches so neere their harquebuses and that therefore they most earnestly besought them to put them out that they might more easily get people ynough to carrie the victuals and that they for theyr partes woulde leaue their bowes and arrowes and woulde be contented that their seruantes shoulde carrie them This seconde request was as flatly denied them as the former For it was an easie matter to smell out their intention But while these thinges were thus in handling Vtina by no meanes was to be seene but hid and kept himselfe secrete in a little house a part where certayne chosen men of mine went to see him shewing thēselues agreeued with him for the long delayes of his subiectes whereunto hee answered that his subiects were so much incensed against vs that by no meanes possible he was able to keepe them in such obedience as he willingly woulde haue done and that hee coulde not holde them from waging of warre against Monsieur De Ottigny That he also called to mind that euen while he was prisoner at what time our men ledde him into his countrie to obtaine some victuals hee saw along the high waies arrows stucke vp at the ends whereof long haires were fastened which was a certayne signe of open warre proclaimed which arrowes the captaine also carried with him to the fort He saide further that in respect of the good will he bare the Captaine he forewarned his Lieuetenant that his subiectes were determined to cut downe the trees and cause them to fall a thwhart the little riuer where the boates were to keepe them from departing thence that they might fight with them at their ease and that if it thus fell out hée assured him for his part he woulde not be there to meddle in the matter And that which much more augmented the suspicion of warre was that as my messengers departed from Vtina they hearde the voyce of one of my men which during the voyage had alwayes beene among the Indians and whome as yet they woulde neuer render vntil they had gotten their pledges home This poore fellowe cryed out a mayne because two Indians would haue carried him into the woods to haue cut his throate whereupon hee was succoured and deliuered These admonitions being well vnderstoode and after ripe deliberation thereof Mounsieur de Ottigny resolued to retire himselfe the seauen and twentieth of Iuly Wherefore he set his soldiers in order and deliuered to ech of them a sacke full of myl and afterward he marched toward his barkes thinking to preuent the enterprise of the sauages There is at the comming foorth of the village a great alley about threé or foure hundred pases long which is couered on both sides with great trees My lieutenant disposed his men in this alley and set them in such order as they desired to march for hee was well assured that if there were any ambush it woulde be at the comming out of the treés Therefore he caused Mounsieur De Arlac myne ensigne to march somwhat before w t eight harquebusiers to discouer whether there were any danger besides he commanded one of my sergeants and corporalles to march on the out side of the alley with foure harquebusiers while hee himselfe conducted the rest of his companie through it Nowe as he suspected so it fell out for Mounsieur de Arlac mette with two or thrée hundred Indians at the ende of the alley which saluted him with an infinite number of their arrowes and with such furie that it was easie to sée with what desire they sought to charge vs. Howbeit they were so wel sustayned in the first assault which mine ensigne gaue them that they which fell downe deade did somewhat abate the choler of those which remayned aliue This done my lieuetenant hasted to gaine grounde in such sort as I haue already said After he had marched about foure hundred pases hee was charged afresh with a newe troupe of sauages which were in number about threé hundred which assayled him before while the rest of the former set vppon him behinde This seconde assault was so valiantly sustained that I may iustly say that Monsieur De Ottigny so well discharged his duetie as was possible for a good Captaine to doe And so it stoode them vpon for he had to deale with such kinde of men as knew well how to fight to obey their heade which conducted them and which knewe so well to behaue themselues in this conflict as if Ottigny had not preuented their practise he had beéne in danger to haue beéne defeated Their manner in their fight was that when two hundred had shotte they retyred themselues and gaue place to the rest that were behinde and all the while had their eye and foote so quicke and readie that assoone as euer they sawe the harquebusie layde to the cheeke so soone were they on the ground and eftsone vp to answere with their bowes and to flie their way if by chance they perceyued we went about to take them for there is nothing that they feare so much because of our swordes and daggers This conflict continued and lasted from nine of the clocke in the morning vntill the night departed them And if Ottigny had not bethought himselfe to cause his men to breake the arrows which they founde in the waye and so to depriue the sauages of the meanes
mulberies white and redde Great store of silkewormes The riuer of May. The riuer of Seine The Riuer of Somme The Riuer of Loyre The Riuers of Cherente Garonne Gironde Belle Grande The riuer Belle a veoir The Riuer of Port Royall in 32 degrees of latitude Turkey cockes Partridges gray redde Fish in abundance The Riuer 3. leagues at the mouth A passage by a riuer into the South Sea Store of rare simples Ribault sayleth 12. leagues vp the riuer Lucerne cape Chamoyes Perles Store of perles and siluer A Pillour of free stone wherein the armes of FrauÌ„ce were grauen set vp in an Iland in the riuer of Port Royal. The Riuer of Liborne The Ile of Ceders Two Indians taken away The dolefull songs of the Indians The Indians eat not before the sun be set Laudonniers putting downe in writing the wordes and phrases of the IndiaÌ„s speech The feast of Toya Chiquola or Chiquora a king of greate stature The first proof that Chiquola should be a very faire citie Gold siluer pearles in aboundance The rich citie of king Chiquola is toward the North of â—ort royall This history is recorded in the second third chapters of the seuenth Decade of Petâ—r Martyr The second proofe The third proofe The 2. Indians escape away The benefit of planting The oration of Ioh. Ribault to his companie Aelius Pertinax descending from base pareÌ„tage became Emperor of Rome Agathocles a potters sonne became king of Sicilie Rusten Bassha of an heardmans sonne through his valure became the great Turkes sonne in lawe The â—â—â—â—diers auâ—â—â—â—re to Ribaâ—ts Orations The length bredth of the Forte taken by Laudonnier Captayne Salles A Fort builte in port Roy all by Ribault Rabaults speech to Captayne Albert. His speeche to the souldiers The foresaid Fort was called Charles Fort. Port Royal. The Riuer Base 15. legueâ— Northward of Port Royal Their ariual in Fraunce 1561. the 20. of Iuly King Audusta Note Mayon Hoya Touppa Stalame The Countrey of king Stalame 15. leagues Northward of Charles Fort. Chamoys skins The feast of Toya largely described The Indians trimming of themselues with rich fethers Iawas are their Priests Maigicians Phisitions Inuocations of the Iawas or Pristes vnto Toya Their victuals fayle them The Indians maner of liuing in the Winter time of Mast and rootes King Couexis mightie and reuowmed King Ouade King Maccou Ouades countrey in the riuer Belle. Tapistrie of feathers White couerlets edged with red fringe The liberalitie of king Ouade Ouades countrie 25. leagues Southward froÌ„ Charlesfort The fort set on fire by casualtie The fort reedified by the Sauages in the space of 12 houres Crocodiles Cypresses Their second iourney to the countrey of Ouadé Exceeding faire pearles fine Christall siluer oare The place where christal groweth in very good quantity ten dayes iourney from the riuer Belle. Note Mutinye against the captaine and the causes therof Captaine Albert slaine by his owne souldiers Nicolas Barré chosen Captaine A new BrigaÌ„tine built in Florida Rosen to bray ships Mosse to calke ships Cordage for tackle They put to the sea without sufficient victuals Their victuals vtterly consumed They drinke their vrine for want of fresh water Extreeme famine The French succoured by an English Barke It seemeth he meaneth the â— voyage intended by Stukley The ciuil wars the cause why the FrenchmeÌ„ were not supplied which were left behinde in their first voyage Laudonniers second voyage to Florida with 3. ships the 22. of April 1564. The Ile of Teneriffe or the Pike The Isle of Martinica Dominica an Iland Ananas a fruite of great excellencie His ariuall in Florida the 22 of Iune 1564. Cape François being betweene the riuer of Dolphins and the riuer of May maketh the distance thirty leagues about which is but ten leagues ouer land The great loue curtesie of the Floridians The riuer of Dolphins called Seloy by the Sauages Iune 23. Their arriuall at the riuer of May the 22 of Iune The piller set vp before by Ribault crowned with garlands of Laurell and inuironed with small paniers full of corne worshiped by the sauages Paracoussy Satourioua A Wedge of siluer Grosleâ— Monsur de Ottigni The curtesie of the Floridians to the French Sauages in Florida of 250. yeeres old Eagles in Florida Ceders Palmes bayes exceeding sweete Esquine drugge excellent against the pocket Syluer certayn dayes iournie vp within the riuer of May. Thimogoua mortal enimies to Satourioua The riuer of Seine The riuer of Some The curtesie of the Paracoussi of the riuer of Some Bullets of siluer Laudonieres consultation with his company where it might be best for them to plant Gold and siluer found at the riuer of May. Iune the 29. The vale of Laudonniere An Hermophrodite They began their planting with prayer to God In Florida they couer their house with palme leaues The forme of the Fort Caroline The West side The South side High building is not good for this countrey Nota. Caroline The first voyage twentie leagues Ten leagues farther Mayrra a king rich in gold siluer The second voyage King molloua Olata Ouae Vtina a great king Fiue or sixe pound weight of siluer Fortie kinges vassals to Vtina King Potanou An exceeding rich place Large plats of golde and filuer Some paint their faces with blacke some withâ—ed King Molona King Malica Tapistry made of small reeds They lappe mosse about their woundes and vse it insteed of napkins A ceremonie to cal to mind the death of their ancesters slaine by their enimies The returne of their ships toward France the 28. of Iuly The ceremonie which they vse before they goe to warre Satourioua followed with fiue huÌ„dred Indians Consultation before they assault their enemies How they vse their enimies which they take in warre King Omoloa The maner of triumphe Athore Excellent Pompions A wonderfull lightning the 29. of August King Sarranay King Allimacany The sauages thinke the lightning to be discharging of the Christians ordinance Laudonnlere vsed the present occasion to his profite A wonderfull heate Fiftie cart lode of fish dead in the riuer with this heat The third viage the tenth of September Mayarqua a place eightie leages vp the riuer of May. King Patanou The Indians maner of war Two hundred Indians A village enclosed with trees Vtina getteth the victorie of Potanou by the helpe of the french Siluer gold and paynted skins La Roquettes conspiracie Mounsur de Geure Gieures message to Laudoniere in the soldiers name His answere A dangerous practise against the captaine and his liuetenant Laudounieres sickenes Laudonniers Apothecarie The master of the fire workes Captaine Bourdet arriued in Florida the fourth of September The fourth voiage the seuenth of Nouember Hostaqua a village A chaine of syluer One of his Barkes stolne away by his mariners The village of Sarrauahi Another of his barkes stolne away by two carpenters One of these mariners named Francis Iean betrayed his ovvne couÌ„trie men to the