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A05182	A notable historie containing foure voyages made by certayne French captaynes vnto Florida vvherein the great riches and fruitefulnes of the countrey with the maners of the people hitherto concealed are brought to light, written all, sauing the last, by Monsieur Laudonniere, who remained there himselfe as the French Kings lieuetenant a yere and a quarter: newly translated out of French into English by R.H. In the end is added a large table for the better finding out the principall matters contayned in this worke.; Histoire notable de la Floride. English. Selections	Laudonnière, René Goulaine de.; Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.; Basanier, Martin.	1587 (1587)	STC 15316; ESTC S109391	132,389	145

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 n●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 ● 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 ● 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 cōmodious 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 ● 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

good a number of Palme leaues that the grange was couered in lesse then two dayes so that businesse was finished For in the space of those two dayes the Indians neuer ceased frō working some in fetching Palme leaues others in enterlacing of them in such sorte that their kings commaundement was executed as he desired Our fort was built in forme of a triangle The side toward the West which was toward the land was encl●sed with a litle trench and raysed with turues made in forme of a Battlement of nine foote high the other side which was toward the Riuer was enclosed with a Pallisado of planckes of timber after the maner that Gabions are made On y e south side there was a kind of bastion within which I caused an house for the munition to be built it was all builded with Fagots and sand sauing about two or three foote high with turues wherof the battlements were made In the middest I caused a great court to be made of eighteene pases long and broad in the middest whereof on the one side drawing toward the South I builded a Corpes de gard and an house on the other side toward the North which I caused to be raysed somwhat to high for within a shore while after the winde beat it downr and experience taught me that we may not build with high stages in this countrey by reason of the winds whereunto it is subiect One of the sides that inclosed my court which I made very fayre and large reached vnto the grange of my munitions and on the otherside towards the Riuer was mine own lodging round about the which were galleries all couered The principall doore of my lodging was in the midest of the great place and the other was towards the Riuer A good distance from the Fort I built an Ouen to auoyd the daunger of fier because the houses are of Palme leaues which will soone bee burnt after the fier catcheth hold of them so that with much adoe a man shall haue leasure to quench them Loe here in breefe the description of our Fortresse which I named Caroline in the honour of our Prince king Charles After we were furnished with y t which was most necessary I would not lose a minute of an houre without employing of the same in some vertuous exercise therefore I charged Monsieur de Ottigni my Lieuetenant a man in truth worthy all honour for his honestie and vertue to search vp within the riuer what this Thimogoua might be whereof the Paracoussy Satourioua had spoken to vs so often at our comming on shore For execution hereof the Paratoussy gaue him two Indians for his guides which taking vpon them to lead him in this voyage seemed to goe vnto a wedding so desirous they were to fight with their enemies Being embarked they hoysed sayle and hauing sayled about twentie leagues the Indians which still looked on this side and that side to espie some of their enimies discouered three Canoes And immediately they began to crie Thimogoua Thimogoua and spake of nothing else but to hasten forward to goe to fight w t them which the Captayne seemed to be willing to doe to content them When they came to boorde them one of the Indians gat holde of an Halbert another of a Coutelas in such a rage that hee would haue lept into the water to haue fought with them alone Neuerthelesse Ottigny would not let them doe it for while he differed to abord them he gaue the others respit to turne the prooes of their Canoes toward the shore and so to escape into the woods Againe the meaning of Ottigny was not to make warre vpon them of Thimogoua but rather to make them friendes and to make them thencefoorth to liue in peace one with another if it were possible hoping by this meane to discouer daily some new thing especially the certayne course of the Riuer For this purpose hee caused the barke to retire wherein were the two Indians his guides went with his toward the Canoes which were on the Riuers side Being come vnto them he put certaine trifles into them and then retired a goodway from them which thing caused the Indians which were fled away to rerurne to their Boates and to vnderstand by this signe that those of our barke were none of their enimies but rather come onely to trafficke with them Wherefore being thus assured of vs they called to our men to come neere vnto them which they did incontinently and set foote on lande and spake freely with them with diuerse ceremonies ouer long to recount In the end Ottigni demaunded of them by signes if they had gold or siluer among them But they told him they had none as then and that if he would send one of his men with thē they would bring him without daunger into a place where they might haue some Ottigni seeing them so willing deliuered them one of his men which seemed very resolute to vndertake this voyage this fellow stayed with thē vntill ten of the clocke the next day morning so that Captayne Ottigny somewhat offended with his long staye sayled tenne great leagues farther vp the riuer although he knew not what way hee should goe yet he went so farre vp that he espied the boate wherein his souldier was which reported vnto him that the Indians would haue carried him three great dayes iourney farther told him that a king named Mayrra rich in gold and siluer dwelt in those quarters and that for small quantitie of marchandise inough might be had of him yet that he would not hazard himself without his leaue and that he brought but a very litle gold This being done our men returned toward our fort Caroline after they had left the souldier with the Indians to enforme himselfe more and more of such things as he might discouer more at leasure Fifteene dayes after this voyage to Thimogoua I dispatched Captaine Vasseur and my sergeant also to returne againe into this countrey and to seeke out the souldier which remayned there in y ● former voyage Being therfore imbarked they sayled two whole dayes and before they came to the dwelling of the Indians they found two of them on the riuers side which were expressely sent vnto that place to discry whether any of their enimies were come to that parte with intention to surprise them as they did vsually When they perceiued Captaine Valseur they knewe incontinently that he was none of their enimies therefore made no difficultie to come neere vnto the barke and shewed him by signes that the souldier which they sought was not in that place but was at that present in the house of king Molloua which was vassell vnto another great king named by them Olata Ouae Vtina and that if the Captayne would sayle thytherward he should come thither very quickly wherewith he was content caused his men to rowe to that part

which wee had sunke because it wanted ballast and coulde not be saued Thus I encreased the furniture of the ship wherein I was my selfe embarked and made one which had beéne Masters-mate in the foresaid small shippe Master of mine And because I lacked a Pilot I praied Iames Ribault that heé would graunt me one of the foure men that he had in his shippe which I should name vnto him to serue me for a Pilot he promised to giue me them which neuerthelesse he did not at the instant when we were readie to depart notwithstanding all the speéch I vsed to him in declaring that it was for the Kinges seruice I was constrained to leaue the ship behinde me which I had bought of the English Captaine because I wanted men to bring her away For Captain Iames Ribault had taken away her furniture I tooke away her ordinance onely which was all dismounted whereof I gaue nine pieces to Iames Ribault to carrye into France the other fiue I put into my shippe The fiue and twentieth of September wee sette sayles to returne into France and Captaine Iohn Ribault and I kept companye all that daye and the next vntill threé or foure a clocke in the after noone but because his shippe was better at bowling then ours he kept him to the wind and left vs the same day Thus we continued our voyage wherein we had maruelous flawes of winde And about the eight and twentieth of October in the morning at the breake of daye wee discried the Isle of Flores one of the Assores where immediatly vpon our approching to the lande we had a mighty gust of winde which came from the Northeast which caused vs to beare against it foure daies afterwarde the winde came South Southeast was alwaies variable In all the time of our passage wee had none other foode sauing Biscuit and water About the tenth or eleuenth of Nouember after wee had sailed a longe time and supposing wee were not farre from lande I caused my men to sound where they found threéscore fifteéne fathoms water whereat we all reioysed praised God because we had sailed so prosperously Immediately after I caused them to set sayle againe so we continued our way but for asmuch as we had borne to much toward the Northeast we entered into Saint Georges chanel a place much feared of all Sailers and where as many ships are cast away But it was a faire gift of God that we entred into it when the weather was cleare We sailed al the night supposing we had beéne shot into the narrow Sea betweene England and France by the next day to reach Diepe but wee were deceaued of our longing for about two or three of the clocke after midnight as I walked vpon the hatches I discried land rounde about me whereat we were astonied Immediatly I caused them to strike saile and sound we found we had not vnder vs past eight fathoms of water whereupon I commaunded them to staye till breake of day which being come and seéing my Mariners tolde me that they knew not this land I commanded them to approch vnto it Being neére thereunto I made them cast anker and sent the boat on shoare to vnderstand in what country we were Word was brought me that we were in Wales a prouince of England I went incontinently on land where after I had taken the ayre a sickenesse tooke mee whereof I thought I shoulde haue dyed In the meane while I caused the shippe to bee brought into the bay of a small towne called Swansey where I found Marchants of saint Malo which lent me money wherewith I made certaine apparell for my selfe and part of my company that was with me and because there were no victuals in the shippe I bought two Oxen and salted them and a tonne of Beere which I deliuered into his handes which had charge of the shippe praying him to carrie it into France which he promised me to doe for mine own part I purposed with my men to passe by land after I had taken leaue of my Mariners I departed from Swansey and came that night with my company to a place called Morgan where the Lord of the place vnderstanding what I was stayd me with him for the space of sixe or seuen daies and at my departure mooued with pittie to see me goe on foote especially being so weake as I was gaue me a little Hackenye Thus I passed on my iourney first to Bristo then to London where I went to do my duety to Monsieur de Foix which for the present was the kings Ambassadour holpe me w t money in my necessitie From thence I passed to Calis afterward to Paris where I was infourmed that y e king was gone to Moulins to sotourne there incontinently with all the hast I could possibly make I gate me thither with part of my company Thus briefly you see the discourse of all that happened in new France since the time it pleased y ● kings Maiestie to send his subiects thither to discouer those parts The indifferent vnpassionate readers may easily weigh the truth of my doings be vpright iudges of y ● endeuour which I there vsed For mine owne part I will not accuse nor excuse any it sufficeth me to haue folowed the truth of the history whereof many are able to beare witnes which were there present I will plainly say one thing That the long delay that Captaine Iohn Ribault vsed in his embarking the fifteen daies that he spēt in rouing along the coast of Florida before he came to our fort Caroline were the cause of the losse that we sustained For he discouered the coast the fourteénth of August spent the time in going from riuer to riuer which had beén sufficiēt for him to haue discharged his ships in for me to haue embarked my selfe to returne into France I wote well that all that hee did was vpon a good intent yet in mine opinion he should haue had more regard vnto his charge then to the deuises of his owne braine which sometimes he printed in his head so deépely that it was very hard to put them out which also turned to his vtter vndoing for hee was no sooner departed from vs but a tempest tooke him which in fine wrackt him vppon the coast where all his ships were cast away he with much adooe escaped drowning to fall into their hands which cruelly massacred him and all his company The end of the historie written by Laudonniere THE FOVRTH VOYAGE of the French men into Florida vnder the conduct of Captaine GOVRGVES in the yeare 1567. CAptaine Gourgues a Gentleman borne in the country neére vnto Bordeaux incited with a desire of reuenge to repaire the honour of his nation borrowed of his friendes and soulde part of his owne goods to set foorth furnish three ships of indifferent burthen with all things