Riuer and for this cause the Captayne sent for vs. Being come to our Shippes wee sayled three great leagues farther vp within the Riuer and there wee cast Anker A little while after Iohn Ribault accompanied with a good number of souldiers imbarked himselfe desirous to sayle further vp into the arme that runneth toward the west and to search the commodities of the place Hauing sayled twelue leagues at the least wee perceaued a troupe of Indians which as soone as euer they espied the Pinnisles were so afrayd that they fledde into the woods leauing behind them a young Lucerne which they were a turning vpon a spitte for which cause the place was called Lucerne Cape proceeding foorthon our way we found an other arme of the riuer which ranne toward the East vp which the Captain determined to sayle to leaue the great currant A little while after they began to espie diuerse other Indians both men womeÌ„ half hiddeÌ„ within y â— woods whoknowing not y â— wee were such as desired their friendship were dismayed at the first but soone after were embouldned for the Captayne caused store of marchandise to be shewed theÌ„ openly wherby they knew y â— we ment nothing but wel vnto theÌ„ then they made a signe y â— we should come on land which we would not refuse At our comming on shore diuerse of theÌ„ came to salute our Generall according to their barbarouse fashion Some of them gaue him skins of Chamoys others little baskets made of Palme leaues some presented him with perles but no great number Afterwards they went about to make an arbour to defend vs in y â— place from the parching heate of the sunne But we would not stay as then Wherefore the Captayn thanked them much for their good wil gaue presents to eche of them where with he pleased them so well before hee went thence that his suddaine departure was nothing pleasaunt vnto them For knowing him to be so liberall they would haue wished him to haue stayed a little longer seking by all meanes to giue him occasion to stay shewing him by signes that he should stay but that day onely and that they desired to aduertise a great Indian Lord which had perles in great aboundance and siluer also all which things should be giuen vnto him at y â— kings ariual saying far ther y â— in the meane while y â— this great Lord came thether they wold lead him to their houses shew him there a thousand pleasures in shooting seeing the Stag killed therfore they prayed him not to deny theÌ„ their request Notwithstanding we returned to our ships wher after we had been but one night the captayne in the morning coÌ„maunded to put into y â— Pinnisse a pillour of hard stone fashioned like a columne wherin y â— armes of the king of Fraunce were graueÌ„ to plant the same in the fayrest place that he could finde This done we imbarked our selues and sayled three leagues towards the west where we discouered a litle riuer vp which we sayled so long that in the ende we found it returned into the great currant and in his returne to make a litle Iland separated from the firme land where we went on shore and by commaundement of the Captayne because it was exceeding fayre and pleaâ—â—â—â—t there we planted the Pillour vppon a hillocke open round about to the vew and enuironed with a lake halfe a fathom deepe of very good and sweete water In which Ilande wee sawe two Stagges of exceeding bignesse in respect of those which we had seene before which wee might easily haue killed with our harguebuses if the Captayne had not forbidden vs. moued with the singular fayrenes and bignesse of them But before our departure we named the little Riuer which enuironed this Ile the Riuer of Liborne Afterward we imbarked our selues to search another Ile not farre distant from the former wherein after we had gon a land we found nothing but tall Ceders the fayrest that were seene iâ— this Countrey For this cause we called it the Ile of Ceders so we returned into our Pinnisse to goe towards our Shippes A fewe dayes afterward Iohn Ribault determined to returne once againe toward the Indians which inhabited that arme of the Riuer which runneth toward the West and to carry with him good store of souldiers For his meaning was to take two Indians of this place to bring them into Fraunce as the Queene had commaunded him With this deliberation againe we tooke our former course so farre foorth that at the last we came to the selfesame place where at the first we found the Indians from thence we tooke two Indians by the permission of the king which thinking that they were more fauoured then the rest thought themselues very happie to stay with vs. But these two Indians seeing we made no shew at all that we would goe on land but rather that we followed the middest of the courrant began to be somewhat offended and would by force haue lepte into the water for they are so good swimmers that immediately they woulde haue gotten into the forrestes Neuerthelesse being acquainted with their humour wee watched them narrowly and sought by all meanes to appease them which wee could not by any meanes doe for that time though wee offered them thinges which they much esteemed which thinges they disdayned to take and gaue backe againe whatsoeuer was giuen them thinking that such giftes should haue altogether bound them and that in restoring them they shoulde bee restored vnto their libertie In fine perceiuing that all that they did auayled them nothing they â—â—â—yed vs to giue them those thinges which they had restored which wee did incontinent then they approched one toward the other and beganne to singe agreeing so sweetly together that in hearing their songe it seemed that they lamented for the absence of their friendes They continued their songes all night without ceassing al which time we were constrained to lie at anker by reason of the tide which was against vs but wee hoysed sayle the next day very early in the morning and returned to our ships Assoone as we were come to our shippes euery one sought to gratifie these two Indians to shew theÌ„ the best countenaunce that was possible to the intent that by such curtesies they might perceiue the good desire and affectioÌ„ which we had to remain their friends in time to come Then we offered them meate to eate but they refused it and made vs vnderstande that they were accustomed to wash their face and to staye vntill the sunne were set before they did eate which is a ceremonie common to al the Indians of new Fraunce Neuerthelesse in the ende they were constrayned to forget their superstitions and to apply theÌ„selues to our nature which was somewhat strange vnto them at the first They became therefore more ioconde and euery houre made vs a thousande
motion that it was better that one man onely should dye then that so many men should perish they agreed therefore that one should dye to sustaine the others Which thinge was executed in the person of La Chere of whom we haue spoken heretofore whose fleshe was deuided equally amongst his fellowes a thing so pitifull to recite that my pen is loth to write it After so long time and tedious trauels God of his goodnesse vsing his accustomed fauour changed their sorrow into ioy and shewed vnto them the sight of lande Whereof they were so exceeding glad y â— the pleasure caused theÌ„ to remayne a long time as men without sense whereby they let the Pinnesse flote this and that way without holding any right way or course But a smal English barke boarded y â— vessel in which there was a Frenchman which had been in the first voyage into Florida who easily knewe them and spake vnto them afterward gaue them meat and drink Incontinently they recouered their naturall courages declared vnto him at large al their nauigation The English men consulted a long while what were best to be done and in fine they resolued to put on land those that were most feeble and to carry the rest vnto the Queene of Englande which purposed at that time to sende into Florida Thus you see in briefe that which happened vnto them which Captaine Iohn Ribault had left in Florida And nowe will I goe forwarde with the discourse of mine owne voyage The ende of the first voyage of Iohn Ribault into Florida ¶ The second voyage vnto Florida made and written by Captaine Laudonniere which fortified and inhabited there two Sommers and one whole VVinter AFter our arriuall at Diepe at our comming home from our first voyage which was the twentieth of Iuly a thousand fiue hundred sixtie and one wee found the ciuill warres begun which was in parte the cause why our men were not succoured as Captaine Iohn Ribault had promised them whereof it followed that Captaine Albert was killed by his souldiers the couÌ„trey abaÌ„doned as heretofore we haue sufficieÌ„tly discoursed as it may more at large bee vnderstood by those men which were there in person After the peace was made in Fraunce my Lord Admiral de Chastillon shewed vnto the king that he heard no newes at all of y â— men which Captaine Iohn Ribault had left in Florida that it were pity to suffer them to perish In which respect the king was content he should cause three ships to be furnished y â— one of sixe score tuns the other of a 100. and the third of 60. to seeke them out and to succour them My Lorde Admirall therefore being well informed of the faithful seruice which I had done aswel vnto his maiesty as to his predecessors kings of FrauÌ„ce aduertised the king how able I was to do him seruice in this voyage which was the cause that he made me chief captain ouer these 3 ships charged me to depart w t diligence to perform his coÌ„mandement which for mine own part I would not gainsay but rather thinking my self happy to haue beene choseÌ„ out amoÌ„g such an infinit number of others which in my iudgment were very wel able to haue quited theÌ„selues in this charge I embarked my self at new haueÌ„ the 22. of April 1564. sayled so y â— we fel neere vnto the coast of England And then I turned towards the South to sayle directly to the fortunate Ilands at this present called the Canaries one of which called the Ile Sauage because as I thinke it is altogether without inhabitantes was the first that our shippes passed Sayling therefore on forwarde wee landed the next day in the Isle of Teneriffe otherwise called the Pike because that in the middest thereof there is an exceeding high mouÌ„taine neere as high as that of Etna which riseth vp right like a pike into the top wherof no man can go vp but from the middest of May vntill the middest of August by reason of the ouer great colde which is there all the rest of the yeere which is a woonderfull strange thing considering that it is not past seuen and twentie degrees and a halfe distaunt from the Equator We sawe it all couered ouer with snowe although it were then but the fifte of May. The inhabitantes in this Isle being heretofore pursued by the Spaniardes retired themselues into this mountaine where for a space they made warre with them and woulde not submit themselues vnto their obedience neither by foule nor faire meanes they disdayned so much y â— losse of their Iland For those which went thither on the Spaniards behalfe left their carkases there so that not so much as one of them returned home to bring newes NotwithstaÌ„ding in the end the inhabitants not able to liue in that place according to their nature or for want of suche thinges as were necessarie for the commoditie of their liuelihoode did all die there After I had furnished my selfe with some freshe water very good and excellent which sprang out of a rocke at the foâ—t of this mountayne I continued my course towarde the West wherein the windes fauoured me so well that fifteene dayes after our shippes arriued safe and sounde at the Antilles and going on land at the Isle of Martinica one of the first of them the next day wee arriued at Dominica twelue leagues distant from the former Dominica is one of the fairest Ilandes of the West full of hilles and of very good smell Whose singularities desiring to know as we passed by seeking also to refresh our selues w t fresh water I made y â— mariners cast anker after we had sayled about half along y â— cost therof As soone as wee had cast Anker two Indians inhabitantes of that place sayled toward vs in two Canoaes full of a fruit of great excellencie which they call Ananas As they approched vnto our barke there was one of them which being in some misdoubt of vs went backe againe on land and fled his way with as much speede as he could possibly Which our men perceiued and entred with diligence into the other Canoa wherein they caught the poore Indian brought him vnto me But the poore fellow became so astonied in beholding vs that he knew not which way to behaue himselfe because that as afterward I vnderstood hee feared that he was fallen into the Spaniard hands of whom he had beene taken once before and which as he shewed vs had cut of his stones At length this poore Indian was assured of vs and discoursed vnto vs of many things wherof we receaued very smal pleasure because we vnderderstood not his mind but by his signes TheÌ„ he desired me to giue him leaue to depart promised me y â— he would bring me a thousaÌ„d presents whereunto I agreed on condition that hee would haue patience vntill the next day when I
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
a couple of gentlemen whome I most trusted which brought me word that the soldiers were determined to come to mee to make a request vnto me But I told them that this was not the fashiō to present a request vnto a captaine in this maner therefore they should send some fewe vnto mee to signifie vnto me what they woulde haue Herevpon the fiue thiese authours of the sedition armed with Corslets their Pistolles in their handes alreadie bent prest into my Chamber saying vnto mee that they woulde goe to New Spaine to seéke their aduenture Then I warned them to beé well aduised what they meant to doe but they foorth with replyed that they were fully aduised alreadie and that I must graunt them this request seéing then quoth I that I am enforced to doe it I will send Captayne Vasseur and my sergeant which will make aunswere and giue meé an accompt of euerie thing that shall beé done in this voyage and to content you I thinke it good that you take one man out of euery chamber that they may accompanie Captayne Vasseur and my sergeant wherevpon blaspheming the name of God they answered that they must goe thither that there lacked nothing but that I should deliuer them the armour which I had in my custodie for feare least I might vse them to their disaduantage beéing so villanously abused by them wherein notwithstanding I would not yelde vnto them But they tooke all by force and carried it out of my house yea and after they had hurte a gentleman in my Chamber which spake agaynst their doinges they laide handes on me and carried mee verie sicke as I was prisoner into a shippe which rode at ancre in the middest of the riuer wherein I was the space of fifteene dayes attended vppon with one man onely without permission for any of my seruauntes to come to visite me from euery one of whom as also from the rest that tooke my part they tooke away their armour And they sent mee a passe port to signe telling me playnely after I had denied them that if I made anie difficultie they woulde all come and cutte my throate in the ship Thus was I constrayned to signe their passe port and foorth with to grant them certayne mariners with Trenchant an honest and skilfull Pilot. When the barkes were finished they armed them with the kinges munition with pouder with bullets and artilerie asmuch as they neéded and chose one of my sergeautes for their Captaine named Bertrand Conferrent for their ensigne one named La Croix They compelled Captayne Vasseur to deliuer them the flagge of his ship Then hauing determined to sayle vnto a place of the Antilles called Leauguaue belonging vnto the king of Spayne there to goe on lande on Christmasse night with intention to enter into the Church while the Masse was saide after midnight and to murder all those that they founde there they set saile the eight of December But because the greatest part of them by this time repented them of their enterprise and that nowe they beganne to fall into mutinies among themselues when they came foorth of the mouth of the riuer the two barkes diuided themselues the one kept a long the coast vnto Cuba to double the Cape more easily and the other went right foorth to passe athwart the Isles of Lucaya by reason whereof they met not vntill sixe weékes after their departure during which time the barke that tooke her way a long the coast wherein one of the chiefe conspiratours named De Orange was captayne and Trenchant was pilote neére vnto a place called Archaha tooke a Brigantine laden with a certayne quantitie of Cassaua which is a kinde of breade made of rootes and yet neuerthelesse is verie white and good to eate and some little Wine which was not without some losse of their men For in one assault that the inhabitantes of Archaha made vppon them two of their men were taken to witte Steuen Gondeau and one named Grand Pré besides two more that were slayne in the place namely Nicolas Master Doublet yet neuerthelesse they tooke the brigantine wherein they put all their stuffe that was in their owne barke because it was of greater burthen and better of sayle then their owne afterwarde they sayled right vnto the Cape of Santa Maria neére to Leauguaue where they went on lande to calke and bray their shippe which had a great leake In this meane while they resolued to sayle to Baracou which is a village of the Isle of Iamaica where at there arriuall they found a Carauele of fiftie or threéscore tunnes burden which they tooke without any bodie in it And after they had made good chere in the village the space of fiue or sixe daies they embarked themselues in it leauing their second shippe then they returned to the Cape of Tiburon where they met with a patach which they toke by force after a longe conflicte In this Patache the gouernour of Iamaica was taken with greate store of riches aswell of gold and siluer as of marchandise and wine and manye other things wherewith our sedicious companions not content determined to seeke more in their Carauell and their gouernour of Iamaica also After they were come to Iamaica they missed of another Carauell which did saue it selfe in the Hauen The gouernour being fine and subtile séeing himselfe brought vnto the place which he desired and where he commanded obtained so much by his fayre wordes that they which had taken him let him put two litle boyes which were taken with him into a litle cocke boate and sende them to his wife into the village to aduertise her that she should make prouision of victuals to send vnto him But in stéede of writing vnto his wife he spake vnto the boyes secretly that with all diligence she should send the vessels that were in the hauens néere that place to suecour and rescue him Which she did so cunningly that on a morning about the breake of the day as our seditious companions were at the hauens mouth which reacheth aboue two leagues vp within the lande there came out of the hauen a Malgualire which maketh sayle both forward and backwarde and then two great shippes which might be ech of them of fourescore or an hundred tunnes a piece with good store of ordinance and well furnished with men at whose comming our mutinous fellowes were surprised being not able to sée them when they came aswel because of the darkenesse of the weather as also by reason of the length of the hauen considering also they mistrusted nothing True it is that fiue or sixe and twéentie that were in the Brigantine discouered these ships when they were néere them which séeing themselues pressed for want of leasure to weigh their ancer cut their cable and the trumpetter which was in it aduertised the rest wherevpon the Spaniardes séeing them selues descryed discharged a voley of Canon shot
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
to bring vp their children themselues are wont to contribute to their honest education the rather if they finde any towardlines or reasonable hope of goodnes in them And if Elizabeth Queene of Castile and Arragon after her husband Ferdinando shee had emptied their cofers and exhausted their treasures in subdueing the kingdome of Granada rooting the Mores a wicked weed out of Spayne was neuerthelesse so zealous of Gods honour that as Fernandus Columbus the Sonne of Christopher Columbus recordeth in the historie of the deeds of his Father she layde part of her owne Iewels which she had in great accompt to gage to furnish his Father foorth vpon his first voyage before any foot of land of al the West Indies was discouered what may we expect of our most magnificent gratious prince ELIZABETH of Englande into whose lappe the Lord hath most plentifully throwne his treasuries what may we I say hope of her forwardnes bountie in aduancing of this your most honourable enterprise being farre more certaine then that of Columbus at that time especially and tending no lesse to the glorie of God then that action of the Spaniards For as you may read in the verie last wordes of the relation of Newe Mexico extant now in english the maine lande where your last colonie meane to seate themselues is replenished with many thousands of Indians Which are of better wittes then those of Mexico and Peru as hath beene found by those that haue had some triall of them whereby it may be gathered that they will easilie embrace the Gospell forsaking their idolatrie wherein at this present for the most part they are wrapped intangled A wise Philosopher noting the sundry desires of diuers men writeth that if an oxe be put into a medow he will seeke to fill his bellie with grasse if a storke be cast in she will seeke for snakes if yee turne in a hound he will seeke to start an hare So sondrie men entring into these discoueries propose vnto themselues seuerall ends Some seeke authoritie and places of commandement others experience by seeing of the worlde the most part worldly and transitorie gaine that often times by dishonest and vnlawfull meanes the fewest number the glorie of God and the sauing of the soules of the poore blinded infidels Yet because diuers honest and well disposed persons are entred already into this your busines and that I knowe you meane hereafter to sende some such good Churchmen thither as may truely saie with the Apostle to the Sauages We seeke not yours but you I conceaue great comfort of the successe of this your action hoping that the Lord whose power is wont to be perfected in weakenes will blesse the feeble foundations of your building Onely bee you of a valiant courage and faint not as the Lorde saide vnto Iosue exhorting him to proceede on forwarde in the conquest of the lande of promise and remember that priuate men haue happily wilded and waded through as great enterprises as this with lesser meanes then those which God in his mercie hath bountifully bestowed vpon you to the singuler good as I assure my selfe of this our common wealth wherein you liue Hereof we haue examples domesticall and forreine Remember I pray you what you finde in the beginning of the Chronicle of the conquest of Irâ—â—â—de newlie dedicated vnto yourselfe Read you not that Richard Strangbowe the decayed earle of Chepstowe in Monmuthshire being in no great fauour of his Soueraigne passed ouer into that Iland in the yeere 1171. and accoÌ„panied only with certaine of his priuate friends had in short space such prosperous successe that hee opened the way for king Henrie the second to the speedie subiection of all that warlike nation to this crowne of Englande which so continueth to this present day The like conqueste of Brasilia and annexing the same to the kingdome of Portugal was first begunne by meane and priuate men as Don Antonio de Castillio Ambassadour here for that realme by his office keeper of all the records and monuments of their discoueries assured me in this citie within these sixe yeeres Now if the greatnes of the maine of Virginea and the large extension thereof especially to the West should make you thinke that the subduing of it were a matter of more difficultie then the conquest of Irelande first I answere that as the fresh experience of that happie and singuler skilfull pilâ—tte and Captaine M. Iohn Dauis to the northwest towarde which his discouerie your selfe haue thrise contributed with the forwardest hath shewed a great part to bee maine Sea where before was thought to bee mayne lande so for my part I am fully perswaded by Orâ—elius late reformation of Culuacan and the gulfe of California that the land on the backe part of Virginea extendeth nothing so farre westward as is put downe in the mappes of those partes and that before two yeeres come to an ende God blessing the foresaide Captaine Dauis endeuours he will put vs out of that doubt and manie others Moreouer it is not to bee denied but that one hundred men will doe more nowe among the naked and vnarmed people in Virginea then one thousande were able then to doe in Irelande against that armed and warrelike nation in those daies I say further that these two yeares last experience hath plainely shewed that wee may spare tenne thousand able men without any misse And these are as manie as the kingdome of Portugal had euer in all their garrisons of the Assores Madera Cape verde Guinea Brasill Mozambique Melinde Zocotora Ormus Diu Goa Mallacca the Moluccoes Amacan and Macao vpon the cost of China Yea this I say by the confession of singuler expert men of their owne natioÌ„ whose names I suppresse for certaine causes which haue beene personally in the East Indies and haue assured mee that their kings had neuer aboue ten thousand natural borne Portugals their slaues excepted out of their kingdome remaining in all the aforesaid territories Which also this present yeere I sawe confirmed in a secrete extract of the particuler estate of that kingdome and of euerie gouernment and office subiect to the same with the seuerall pensions thereunto belonging Seeing therefore we are so farre from want ef people that retyring dayly home out of the Lowe Countries they go idle vp downein swarmes for lacke of honest intertainmeÌ„t I see no fitter place to employ some part of the better sort of them trayned vp thus long iu seruice theÌ„ in the inward parts of the firme of Virginea against such stubborne Sauages as shall refuse obedience to her Maiestie And doubtlesse many of our men will be glade faine to accept this condition when as by the reading of this present treatie they shall vnderstand the fertilitie and riches of the regions confining so neere vppon yours the great commodities and goodnesse whereof I trust you will suffer to come shortly
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
then the Captaine went forward to salute him and without any other mouing of himselfe he retayned so constant a kinde of grauitie that he made it seeme vnto vs that by good and lawfull right he bare the title of a king Our Captaine knowing not what to iudge of this mans behauiour thought he was ielous because we went first vnto the other king or els that he was not wel pleased w t the piller or colume which he had planted While thus he knew not what hereof to think our captaine shewed him by signes that hee was come from a far countrey of purpose to seeke him to let him vnderstand the amity which he was desirous to haue with him for the better confirmation whereof he drew out of a butchet certaine trifles as certaine braselets couered as it were with siluer and guilt which he presented him withall and gaue his sons certaine other trifles Wherevpon the king began very louingly to intreate both our Captaine and vs. And after these gentle intertainments we went our selues into the woods hoping there to discouer some singularities where were great store of mulbeary trees white and redde on the coppes whereof there was an infinite number of silke wormes Following our way we discouered a fayre and great medowe deuided notwithstanding with diuers marishes which constrained vs by reason of the water which enuironed it about to returne backe againe toward the riuers side Finding not the king there which by this time was gone home to his house we entred into our boates and sayled toward our shippes where after we arriued we called this Riuer the riuer of May because we discouered it the first daye of the saide moneth Soone after wee were returned to our shippes we weighed our ankers and hoysed our sayles to discouer the coste farther forward along the which we discouered another fayre Riuer which the Captaine himselfe was minded to search out and hauing searched it out with the king and inhabitants thereof he named it Seine because it is very like vnto the Riuer of Seine in Fraunce From this riuer we retired toward our ships where being arriued we trimmed our sailes to saile further toward the North and to descry the singularities of the coste But we had not sayled anye great way before wee discouered another very fayre Riuer which caused vs to cast anker ouer against it and to trimme out two Boates to goe to searche it out We found there an Ile and a king no lesse affable then the rest afterward wee named this Riuer Somme From thence wee sayled about sixe leagues after wee discouered another Riuer which after we had vewed was baptised by vs by y â— name of Loyre And consequently we there discouered fiue others whereof the first was named Cherente the second Garonne the third Gironde the fourth Belle the fifte Grande which being very well discouered with such things as were in them by this time in lesse then y â— space of threescoare leagues we had fouÌ„d out many singularites a longe nine riuers Neuerthelesse not fully satisfied we sailed yet farther toward the North following the course that might bring vs to the Riuer of Iordan one of the fayrest Riuers of the North and holding our wonted course great fogs and tempestes came vpon vs which constrayned vs to leaue the cost to beare toward the mayne Sea which was the cause that we lost the sight of our Pinisses a whole day and a night vntill the next day in the morning what tune the weather waxing fayre and the Sea calme wee discouered a Riuer which we called Belle a veoir After we had sayled three or foure leagues we began to espie our Pinisses which came straight towardes vs and at their ariuall they reported to the Captayne that while the foule weather and fogges endured they harbored themselues in a mightie Riuer which in bignesse and beautie exceeded the former wherewithall the Captayne was exceeding ioyfull for his chiefe desire was to finde out an Hauen to harboure his Shippes and there to refresh our selues for a while Thus making thitherwarde wee ariued a thwarte the said Riuer which because of the fayrenesse and largenes thereof we named Port Royal wee strooke out sayles and cast Anker at ten fathom of water for the depth is such namely when the Sea beginneth to flowe that the greatest Shippes of Fraunce yea the Arguesses of Venice may enter in there Hauing cast Anker the Captayne with his Souldiers went on shore and hee himselfe went first on land where we found the place as pleasant as was possible for it was all couered ouer with mightie high Okes and infinite store of Cedars and with Lentisques growing vnderneath them smelling so sweetly that the very fragrant odour only made the place to seeme exceeding pleasant As we passed throw these woods we saw nothing but Turkeycockes flying in the forrests Partridges gray and redde litle different from ours but chiefly in bignesse Wee heard also within the Woods the voyces of Stagges of Beares of Luserns of Leopards and of diuers other sorts of Beasts vnknown vnto vs. Being delighted with this place we set our selues to fishing with netâ—es and we caught such a number of fishe that it was wonderfull And amongst other we tooke a certayne kind of fish which we call Sallicoques which were no lesse then Creuises so that two draughts of the net were sufficient sometimes to feede all the company of our two Shippes for a whole day The Riuer at the mouth thereof from Cape to Cape is no lesse then three french leagues broad it is deuided into two great armes whereof the one runneth toward the West the other towards the North. And I beleeue in my iudgment that the arme which stretcheth toward the North runneth vp into the Countrey as farre as the riuer of Iordan the other arme runneth into the South Sea as it was knowen and vnderstood by those of our company which were left behind to dwell in this place These two armes are two great leagues broad and in the middest of them there is an Ile which is poynted towardes the opening of the great riuer in which Ilande there are infinite numbers of all sorts of strange beasts There are Simples growing there of so rare proprieties and in so great quantitie that it is an excellent thing to behold them On euery side there is nothing to be seene but Palmetrees and other sortes of trees bearing blossoms and frute of very rare shape and very good smel But seeing the euening approch and that the Captayne determined to returne vnto the shippes we prayed him to suffer vs to passe the night in this place In our absence the Pilots and chiefe mariners aduertised the Captayne that it was needfull to bring the Shippes farther vpwithin the Riuer to auoyde the daungers of the windes which might anoy vs by reason of our being so neere to the mouth of the
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
when he had done by the space of halfe an howre he sprinkled with his hand a little of the water which he held in a vessell vpon the heads of the Paracoussies and cast the rest as it were in a rage and despite into a fire which was there prepared for the purpose This done he cried out thrise He Thimogoüa and was followed with fiue hundred Indians at the least which were there assembled which cried all with one voyce He Thimogoüa This ceremonie as a certaine Indian tolde me familiarly signified nothing else but that Satourioüa besought the sonne to graunt vnto him so happie a victorie that he might shed his enemies bloud as he had shed that water at his pleasure moreouer that the Paracoussies which were sprinkled with a part of that water might returne with the heades of their enimies which is the onely and chiefe triumph of their victories The Paracoussy Satourioüa had no sooner ended his ceremonies and had taken a viewe of all his companye but he embarked himselfe and vsed such diligence with his Almadies or boates that the next daye two houres before the sonnes set hee arriued on the territories of his enemies aboute eight or ten leages from their villages Afterward causing them all to goe on lande he assembled his counsel wherein it was agreed that fiue of the Paracoussies shoulde saile vp the riuer with halfe of the troupes and by the breake of daye should approch vnto the dwelling of their enemie for his owne parte that he woulde take his iorney through the woodes and forests as secretly as hee coulde that when they were come thither as wel they that went by water as he which went by land shoulde not faile by the breake of the daye to enter into the village cut them all in peeces except the women and little children These things which were thus agreed vppon were executed with as greate furie as was possible which when they had done they took the heades of their enemies which they had slaine and cut of their heire round about with a piece of their skuls they tooke also foure and twentie prisoners which they led awaye and retired themselues immediatlye vnto their boates which waited for them being come thither they beganne to sing prayses vnto the sunne to whome they attributed their victorie And afterwardes put the skins of their heades on the end of their iauelinges and went altogether toward the territories of Paracoussy Omoloa one of them which was in the companie being come thither they deuided their prisoners equallie to ech of the Paracoussies left thirtéene of them to Satourioüa which straightway dispatched an Indian his subiecte to carrie newes before of the victorie to them which staied at home to gard their houses which immediatly beganne to wéepe But assone as night was come they neuer left dancing and playing a thousande gambols in honour of the feast The next day the Paracoussy Satourioüa came home who before he entred into his lodging caused al the heirie skuls of his enemies to be set vp before his doore and crowned them with branches of Lawrell shewing by this glorious spectacle the triumph of the victorie which hee had obtayned Straightway beganne lamentation and mourninges which assoone as the night began were turned into pleasures and dances After that I was aduertised of these things I sent a soldier vnto Satourioüa praying him to sende me two of his prisoners which hee denied me saying that hee was nothing beholding vnto me and that I had broken my promise against the oath which I had sworne vnto him at my arriuall Which when I vnderstoode by my soldier which was come backe with speéde I deuised howe I might be reuenged of this sauage and to make him knowe howe dearely this bolde brauado of his shoulde cost him therefore I commanded my sergiant to prouide me twentie soldiers to goe with mee to the house of Satourioüa Where after I was come and entered into the hall without any manner of salutation I went and sate mee downe by him and stayed a long while without speaking any worde vnto him nor shewing him any signe of friendship which thing put him deépely in his domps besides that certaine soldiers remained at the gate to whome I had giuen expresse commandement to suffer no Indian to goe foorth hauing stoode still about halfe an houre with this countenaunce at length I demaunded where the prisoners were which hee hadde taken at Thomogoua and commaunded them presentlie to be brought vnto mee Wherevnto the Paracoussy angrie at the hearte and astonyed wonderfully stoode a long while without making any answere notwithstanding at last he answered me verie stoutly that being affraide to seé vs comming thither in such warrelike manner they fled into the woods and that not knowing which way they were gone they were not able by any meanes to bring them againe Then I seemed to make as though I vnderstoode not what hee saide and asked for his prisoners againe and for some of his principall allies Then Satourioüa commanded his sonne Athore to seéke out the prisoners and to cause them to be brought into that place which thing he did within an houre after After they were come to the lodging of the Paracoussy they humblie saluted me lifting vp their handes before me they would haue fallen downe prostrate as it were at my feét but I would not suffer them and soone after led them away with mee vnto my owne force The Paracoussy being wonderfully offended with this brauado bethought himselfe by all meanes how he might be reuenged of vs. But to giue vs no suspition thereof and the better to couer his intention he sent his messengers oftentimes vnto vs bringing alwaies with them some kinde of presentes Among others one day hee sent threé Indians which brought vs two baskets full of great Pompions much more excellent then those which we haue in France and promised me in their kinges behalfe that during mine aboade in that countrie I shoulde neuer want victuals I thanked them for their kings good will and signified vnto them the great desire which I had aswell for the benefit of Satourioüa as for the quiet of his subiectes to make a peace betweéne him and those of Thimogoüa which thing could not choose but turne to their great benefite seeing that being allied with the kings of those partes he had an open passage against Onatheaqua his auncient enemie which otherwise he coulde not set vpon Moreouer that Olata Oaüe Vtina was so mightie a Paracoussy that Satourioüa was not able to withstande his forces but being agreed together they might easily ouerthrowe all their enemies and might passe the confines of the farthest riuers that were towards the South The messengers praied me to haue patience vntill the morrowe at what time they woulde come agayne vnto mee to certifie mee of their lordes inclination which they fayled not to doe aduertising mee that Paracoussy Satourioua
which wée gate of the Fyshers whych wée mette sometymes along the ryner And yet thys was so lyttle that certayne souldyers eate priuylye lyttle whelpes which were newly whelped The next day I purpdsed to goe into the Isle of Edelano to take the kyng which had caused one of my men to bée slayne as I haue mentioned before but béeyng aduertysed of my departyng out of my Fort and of the waye which I tooke vp the Ryuer hée feared that I went foorth wyth a purpose to bée reuenged of the euil turne which hée had played so that when I came thither I founde the houses emptye for hée was retyred a lyttle before wythall hys people and I could not by any meanes keep my soldiers being angrie because they had lost one of their companions from setting the village on fire At my departure from thence I passed backe againe by Enecaque where I gathered as much maiz as I could possibly which with great diligence I conueyed to our fort to succour my poore men which I had left in great necessitie They therefore seeing me a farre off comming ranne to that side of the riuer where they thought I would come on lande for hunger so pinched them to the hearte that they could not staye vntill the victuals were brought them to the fort And that they well shewed assoone as I was come and that I had distributed that little maiz among them which I had giuen to ech man before I came out of the barke for they eate it before they had taken it out of the huske But seeing my selfe in this extreeme néede I tooke paynes daye by daye to seeke some villages where there was some foode And as I trauailed this way and that way it happened that two of my Carpenters were killed by the two sonnes of king Emola and by one whose name was Casti as they went on walking to the village called Athore The cause of this murder was because they could not refraine themselues as they walked through the fields from gathering a little maiz which as they were doing they were taken in the manner whereof I was presently aduertised by an Indian which a little before had brought me a present from Nia-Cubacani Queene of a village and neighbour to our forte Uppon receipt of this aduertisment I sent my sergeant with a number of soldiers which founde nothing else but the two dead corpses which they buried returned without doing any other exploite because the inhabitantes were fled away fearing they shoulde be punished for such a foule facte As these thinges thus passed that by this time we had almost driuen out the moneth of May two subiectes of king Vtina came vnto mee with an Hermaphrodite which shewed me that by this time y e maiz was ripe in the greatest part of their quarters Whereupon Vtina signified vnto mee that in case I woulde carrie him home to his house he woulde take such good order that I shoulde haue plentie of maiz and beanes and withall that the fielde which he had caused to be sowed for mee shoulde be reserued to my vse I consulted with my men concerning this matter and founde by the aduice of all my companie that it was best to graunt him his request saying y t he had means to succour vs with food sufficient to serue our turnes for our embarkement and that therefore I might do well to carrie him home Wherefore I caused the two barkes forthwith to be made readie wherein I sayled to Patica a place distant from his village eight or nine leagues where I founde no body for they were gotten into the woods and would not shewe themselues albeit Vtina shewed himselfe vnto them for asmuch as they imagined that I shoulde be constrayned to let him goe But séeing no body to shewe themselues I was constrayned to hazarde one of my men which had béene acquainted with the state of the countrey to whome I deliuered the young sonne of Vtina and commaunded him to goe with diligence to the village of Vtina vnto his father in lawe and his wife to aduertise them that if they woulde haue their king agayne they shoulde bring me victuals vnto the side of the little riuer whither I was gone At my mans comming euerie one made much of the litle child neither was there a man that thought not himselfe well appaide to touch him His father in law his wife hearing of these newes came presently towards our barkes and brought bread which they gaue vnto my soldiers they held me there thrée dayes in the meane while did all y ◠they could to take me which presently I discouered therfore stood diligently vpon my gard Wherefore perceyuing they could not haue their purpose that they were already discouered they sent to aduertise mee y ◠as yet they could not helpe me to victuals that the corne was not yet ripe Thus I was constrained to returne to carry backe Vtina home where I had much a do to saue him frō y ◠rage of my soldiers which perceiuing y ◠maliciousnes of the Indians went about to haue murdred him Moreouer it séemed they were content that they had gotten y ◠son that they cared notgreatly for the father Now my hope fayling me on this side I deuised to send my men to the villages where I thought y ◠maiz was by this time ripe I went to diuers places continued so doing fiftéene dayes after when as Vtina besought me againe to send him vnto his village assuring himselfe that his subiectes would not sticke to giue mee victuals that in case they refused so to do he was cōtent that I shuld do what I thought good with him I vndertoke this voiage the second time with the two barkes furnished as before At my comming vnto the litle riuer we found his subiects there which failed not to come thither with some quantitie of bread beanes and fish to giue my soldiers Neuertheles returning agayne to their former practise they sought almeanes to entrap me hoping to cry quittance for the imprisonmēt of their king if they might haue gotten the victory of me But after that they saw the small meanes which they had to annoy me they returned to intreaties offered that if I woulde giue them their king with certaine of my soldiers they would conduct them vnto the village that the subiects séeing him would be more willing to giue vs victuals Which thing notwithstanding I would not grant vnto thē mistrusting their subtiltie which was not so couerte but that one might espie day at a little hole vntil they had first giuen me two mē in pledge with charge y ◠by the next day they should bring me victuals Which thing they granted gaue me two men which I put in chaines for feare they should escape away as I knewe well they were instructed to do Foure dayes were spent in these conferences
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