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
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
calling the Forte by the name of Charles Forte and the Riuer by the name of Chenonceau The next day wee determined to depart from this place being as well contented as was possible that wee had so happily ended our businesse with good hope if occasion would permitte to discouer perfectely the Riuer of Iordan For this cause we hoysed our sayles about ten of the clocke in the morning after wee were ready to depart Captaine Ribault commaunded to shoote of our Ordinance to giue a farewell vnto our Frenchmen which fayled not to doe the like on their parte This being done wee sayled towarde the North and then wee named this Riuer Porte Royall because of the largenesse excellent fayrenesse of the same After that wee had sayled about fifteene leagues from thence wee espied a Riuer wherevppon we sent our Piunesse thether to discouer it At their returne they brought vs word that they found not past halfe a fathome water in the mouth thereof Which when wee vnderstood without dooing any thinge else wee continued our way and called it the Base or Shallowe Riuer As wee still went on sounding we founde not past fiue or sixe fathome water although wee were sixe good leagues from the Shore at length wee found not past three fathoms which gaue vs occasion greatly to muse And without making any farther way we stroke our sayles partely because wee wanted water and partly because the night approched during which time Captayne Iohn Ribault bethought with himselfe whether it were best for him to passe any farther because of the eminent daungers which euery houre wee sawe before our eyes or whether hee should content himselfe with that which hee had certaynely discouered and also left men to inhabite the Countrey Being not able for that time to resolue with himselfe he referred it ouer vntill the next day The morning being come he proposed to all the company what was best to bee done to the end that with good aduisement euery man might deliuer his opinion Some made aunsweare that according to their iudgement hee had occasion fully to content himselfe considering that hee cold doe no more laying before his eyes that he had discouered more in sixe weekes then the Spaniardes had done in two yeeres in the conquestes of their new Spaine and that he should doe the king very great seruice if he did bring him newes in so short a time of his happie discouerie Other shewed vnto him the losse spoyle of his victualles and on the other side the inconuenience that might happen by the shallow water that they found continually along the cost which things being well and at large debated we resolued to leaue the cost forsaking the North to take our way toward the Easte which is the right way and course for our Fraunce where we happily arived the twenteth day of Iuly the yeere a thousand fiue hundred sixtie and one The state and condition of those which were left behinde in Charles Forte OUr men after our departure neuer rested but night and day did fortifie themselues being in good hope that after their fort was finished they would beginne to discouer farther vp within the Riuer It happened one day as certayne of them were in cutting of rootes in the Coppises that they espyed on the sodayne an Indian that huâ—ted the Deere which finding himselfe so neere vpon them was much dismayed but our men began to draw neere vnto him and to vse him so courteously that he became assured and followed them to Charles Fort where euery man sought to do him pleasure Captayne Albert was very ioyfull of his comming which after he had giuen him a shert and some other trifles hee asked him of his dwelliug the Indian answered him that it was farther vp within the Riuer and that he was vassel of king Audusta he also shewed him with his hand the limites of his habitation After much other talke the Indian desired leaue to departe because it drewe toward night which Captayne Albert graunted him very willingly Certayne dayes after the Captayne determined to sayle toward Audusta where being ariued by reason of the honest intertaynment which he had giuen to the Indian he was so courteously receiued that the king talked with him of nothing else but of the desire which he had to become his friend giuing him besides to vnderstand that he being his friend and allie he should haue the amitie of foure other kings which in might and authoritie were able to doe much for his sake Besides all this in his necessitie they might be able to succour him with victualles One of these kings was called Mayon another Hoya the third Touppa and the fourth Stalame He tolde him moreouer that they woulde bee very glad when they shoulde vnderstand the newes of his comming and therefore he prayed him to vouchsafe to visit them The Captayne willingly consented vnto him for the desire that he had to purchase friendes in that place Therefore they departed the next day very early in the morning and first ariued at the house of king Touppa and afterward went vnto the other kings houses except the house of king Stalame He receiued of eche of them all the amiable curtesies that might be they shewed themselues to be as affectioned friendes vnto him as was possible and offered vnto him a thousand small presents After that he had remained by the space of certayne dayes with these strange kinges he determined to take his leaue and being come back to the house of Audusta he coÌ„maunded al his men to goe abord of their Pinnesse for he was minded to goe toward the countries of king Stalame which dwelt towarde the North the distance of fifteene great leagues from Charles Fort. Therefore as they sayled vp the riuer they entred into a great Courrant which they followed so far till they came at the last to the house of Stalame which brought him into his lodging where he sought to make them the best cheere he colde deuise He presented immediately vnto Captayne Albert his bow arrowes which is a signe and confirmation of aliance betweene them He presented him also with Chamoys skins The Captaine seing the best parte of the day was nowe past tooke his leaue of king Stalame to returne to Charles Fort where hee ariued the day following By this time the friendship was growne so great between our men king Audusta that in a maner all things were commen betweene him them in such sorte that this good Indian king did nothing of importance but he called our men thereunto For when the time drew neere of the celebrating their feastes of Toya which are ceremonies most strange to recite hee sent Ambassadours vnto our menne to request them on his behalfe to be there present Whereunto they agreed most willingly for the desire that they had to vnderstand what this might be They embarked themselues therefore and sayled
towarde the kinges house which was already come foorth on the way towards them to receaue them curteously to bid them welcome and bring them to his house where he sought to entreate them the best hee might In the meane while the Indians prepared themselues to celebrate the feast the morrow after the king brought them to see the place wherin the feast should be kept where they saw many womē round about which laboured by all meanes to make the place cleane and neate This place was a great circuit of ground with open prospecte and rounde in figure On the morrowe therefore early in the morning all they which were chosen to celebrate the feast being paynted and trimmed with riche fethers of diuers colours put themselues on the way to goe from the kings house toward the place of Toya whereunto when they were come they sette themselues in order and followed three Indians which in painting and in gesture were differing from the rest ech of them bare a Tabret in their hand daunsing and singing in a lameutable tune when they began to enter into the middest of the rounde circuit being followed of others which answered them agayne After that they had song daunsed and turned three times they fell on running like vnbridled horses through the middest of the thickest woods And then the Indian women continued all the rest of the day in teares as sad and wofull as was possible and in such a rage they cut the armes of the yonge gerles which they lanced crutlly with sharpe shelles of muskels that the blood followed which they flang into the ayre crying out three times He Toya The king Audusta had gathered all our men into his house while the feast was celebrated and was exceedingly offended when he saw them laugh This he did because the Indians are very angry when they are seene in their ceremonies Notwithstanding one of our men made such shifte that by subtile meanes hee gatte out of the house of Audusta and secretly went and hid himselfe behinde a very thicke bush where at his pleasure he might easily discry the ceremonies of the feast They three that began the feast are named Iawas and they are as it were three Priestes of the Indian lawe to whome they giue credite and beliefe partely because that by kinred they are ordayned to bee ouer their Sacrifices and partely also because they bee so subtile Magicians that any thing that is lost is straightway recouered by their meanes Agayne they are not onely reuereuced for these thinges but also because they heale diseases by I wotte not what kinde of knoweledge and skill they haue Those that ran so through the woods returned two dayes after after their returne they began to daunce with a cheerefull courage in the middest of the fayre place and to cheere vp their good olde Indian fathers which either by reason of their too great age or by reason of their naturall indisposition and feeblenesse were not called vnto the feast When all these daunces were ended they fell on eating with such a greedinesse that they seemed rather to deuour their meate then to eate it for they had neither eaten nor drunke the day of the feast nor the two dayes following Our men were not forgotten at this good cheere for the Indians sent for them all thither shewing themselues verye glad of their presence While they remayned certayne time with the Indians a man of ours got a yonge boy for certaine trifles and enquired of him what the Indians did in the wood during their absence which boy made him vnderstand by signes that the Iawas had made inuocations to Toya and that by Magicall Characters they had made him come that they might speake with him and demaund diuers strange thinges of him which for feare of the Iawas hee durst not vtter They haue also many other ceremonies which I will not here rehearse for feare of molesting the reader with a matter of so small importance When the feast therefore was finished our men returned vnto Charles Forte where hauing remayned but a while their victualles began to waxe shorte which forced them to haue recourse vnto their neighbours and to pray them to succour thē in that their necessitie which gaue them part of al the victuals which they had and kepte no more vnto them selues then woulde serue to sowe their fieldes They tolde them farther that for this cause it was needefull for them to retire themselues into the woodes to liue of Mast and rootes vntill the time of Haruest being as sory as might bee that they were not able any farther to ayd them They gaue them also counsel to goe toward the countries of king Couexis a man of might renowne in this preuince which maketh his aboad toward the South abounding at all seasons and replenished with such quantitic of mill corne and beanes that by his onely succour they might be able to liue a very long time But before they should come into his territories they were to repayre vnto a king called Ouade the brother of Couexis which in Mill Beanes and corne was no lesse welthy and withall is very liberall and which would bee very ioyfull if hee might but once see them Our men perceauing the good relation which the Indians made them of those two kings resolued to goe thither for they felt already the necessitie which oppressed them Therefore they made request vnto king Maccou that it would please him to giue them one of his subiectes to guide them the right way thither whereunto he condiscended very willingly knowing that without his fauour they should haue much adoe to bring their enterprise to passe Wherefore after they had giuen order for all thinges necessary for the voyage they put themselues to Sea and sayled so farre that in the end they came into the countrey of Ouade which they founde to bee in the Riuer Belle. Being there ariued they perceaued a company of Indians which assone as they knew of their being there came before them Assone as they were come neere them their guides shewed them by signes that Ouade was in this company wherefore our men set forwarde to salute him And then two of his sonnes which were with him being goodly and strong men saluted them agayne in very good sorte and vsed very friendly intertainment on their parte The kinge immediately beganue to make an Oration in his Indian language of the great pleasure and contentment which hee had to see them in that place protesting that he would become so loyall a friend of theirs hereafter that hee would bee their faithfull defendour against all them that woulde offer to bee their enimies After these speeches hee ledde them towarde his house where hee sought to intreate them very courteously His house was hanged about with Tapistrie of feathers of diuerse coulours the height of a pike Moreouer the place where the kinge tooke his rest
was couered with white Couerlettes embroydered with deuises of verye wittie and fine workemanshippe and fringed round about with a Fringe dyed in the coulour of Skarlate They aduertised the kinge by one of the guides which they brought with them howe that hauing heard of his greate liberalitie they had put to the Sea to come to beseech him to succour them with victuals in their great want and necessitie and that in so doing he should binde them all hereafter to remaine his faithfull friendes and loyall defenders against all his enemies This good Indian assoone readye to doe them pleasure as they were to demaund it commaunded his subiectes that they should fill our Pinnesse with mil and beanes Afterward he caused them to bring him sixe pieces of his tapistry made like little couerlets and gaue them to our men with so liberall a minde as they easily perceyued the desire which he had to become their friend In recompence of all these giftes our men gaue him two cutting hookes and certaine other trisses wherewith he helde himself greatly satisfied This being done our men took their leaue of the king which for their farewell sayd nothing else but that they should returne if they wanted victuals and that they might assure themselues of him that they should neuer want any thing that was in his power Wherefore they embarked themselues and sailed towards Charlesfort which from this place might be some fiue and twenty leagues distant But as our men thought theÌ„selues at their ease and free from the dangers whereinto they had exposed themselues night and day in gathering together of victuals here there Loe euen as they were asleepe the fire caught in their lodgings with such furie being increased by the wind that the great roome that was built for them before our mens departure was consumed in an instant without being able to saue any thing sauing a very little of their munition Whervpon our men being farre from all succours found themselues in such extremitie that without the ayde of almighty God the onely searcher of the heartes and thoughtes of men which neuer forsaketh those that seeke him in their afflictions they had byn quite and clean out of all hope For the next day betimes in the morning the king Audusta and king Maccou came thither accoÌ„panied w t a very good coÌ„panie of Indians which knowing the misfortune were very sory for it And then they vttered vnto their subiects the speedy diligence which they were to vse in building another house shewing vnto them that the Frenchmen were their louing friendes and that they had made it euident vnto them by the giftes and presents which they had receiued protesting that whosoeuer put not his helping hâ—d vnto the work withal his might shoulde bee esteemed as vnprofitable and as one that had no good part in him which the Sauages feare aboue all thinges This was the occasion that euerie man beganne to endeuour himselfe in such sorte that in lesse than twelue houres they had begun and finished a house which was very neere as great as the former Which being ended they returned home fully contented with a fewe cutting hookes and hatcâ—ets which they receiued of our men Within a small while after this mischance their victuals began to waxe short and after our men had taken good deliberation thought and bethought them selues againe they founde that there was no better way for them then to returne agayne vnto King Ouadé and Couexis his brother Wherefore they resolued to send thither some of their companie the next day following which with an Indian Canoa sayled vp into the countrey about tenne leagues afterwarde they founde a very fayre and great riuer of fresh water which they fayled not to search out they found therin a great number of Crocodils which in greatnesse passe those of the riuer Nilus moreouer all along the bankes thereof there growe mighty high Cypresses After they had stayed a small while in this place they purposed to followe their iourney helping themselues so well with the tides that without putting themselues in danger of the continuall perill of the Sea they came into the Countrey of Ouadé of whom they were most curteously receyued They aduertised him of the occasion wherefore they came againe to visite him and tolde him of the mischance which happened vnto them since their last voyage howe they had not onelie lost their housholde stuffe by casualtie of fire but also their victuals which hee had giuen them so bountifully that for this cause they were so bolde as to come once againe vnto him to beseech him to vouchsafe to succour them in such neede and necessitie After that the king had vnderstood their case he sent messengers vnto his brother Couexis to request him vppon his behalfe to sende him some of his mill and beanes which thing he did and the next day early in the morning they were come againe with victualles which the king caused to be borne into their Canoa Our men would haue taken their leaue of him finding themselues more than satisfied with this liberalitie But for that day he woulde not suffer them but retayned them and sought to make them the best cheere he coulde deuise The next day very early in the morning hee tooke them with him to shewe them the place where his corne grewe and saide vnto them that they shoulde not want as long as all that mill did last Afterwarde he gaue them a certaine number of exceeding faire pearles and two stones of fine Christall and certayne siluer oare Our men forgot not to giue him certaine trifles in recompence of these presents and inquired of him the place whence the siluer â—are and the christall came Hee made them aunsweare that it came tenne great dayes iourney from his habitation vp within the countrey and that the Inhabitauntes of the Countrey did digge the same at the foote of certaine high mountaines where they founde of it in very good quantitie Being ioyfull to vnderstande so good newes and to haue come to the knowledge of that which they most desired they tooke their leaue of the king and returned by the same way by which they came Beholde therefore howe our men behaued themselues very well hitherto although they had endured many great mishaps But misfortune or rather the iust iudgement of God would haue it that those which coulde not be ouercome by fire nor water shoulde be vndone by their owne selues This is the common fashion of meÌ„ which cannot continue in one estate and had rather to ouerthrowe themselues than not to attempt some new thing daily We haue infinite examples in the auncient histories especially of the Romanes vnto which number this litle handful of men being far from their countrey and absent froÌ„ their countriemen haue also added this present example They entred therfore into partialities and dissentions which began about a souldier named Guernache which was a
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
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 froÌ„ 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 enclâ—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 theÌ„ 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 theÌ„ 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 â— 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
secretely but that those of the village of Potanou distant from the dwelling of Vtina aboute fiue and twentie leages were ware of them which sodenly employed and bestowed all their endeuour to defende their village enclosed all with treés and issued out in great companies but finding themselues charged with shot a thing wherewith they neuer had beéne acquainted also beholding the captayne of their band fall downe deade in the beginning of their skirmish with a shot of an Hargubuse which stroke him in the forehead discharged by the hand of monsur De Arlac they left the place and the Indians of Vtina gate into the village taking men women and children prisoners Thus Paracoussy Vtina obtayned the victorie by the aide of our men which slew many of his enemies and lost in this conflict one of their companions wherewith Vtina was verie much greéued Eight or tenne dayes after I sent Captayne Vasseur backe againe with a barke to fetch home monsur De Arlac and his soldiers which at their returne brought me certaine presents from Vtina as some syluer a smale quantitie of golde painted skins and other thinges with a thousande thankes which the Paracoussy gaue me which promised that if in any enterprise of importance I shoulde haue neede of his men he would furnish meé with threé hundred aboue While I thus trauailed to purchase friendes and to practise one while with one here an otherwhile with an other there certayne soldiers of my companie were suborned vnder hand by one named la Roquette of the countrie of Perigorte which put in their heads that hee was a great magicion and that by the secretes of art magicke he had discouered a Mine of golde and siluer farre vp within the riuer whereby vpon the losse of his life euery souldier should receiue in readie buillion the valure of ten thousand crownes beside and aboue fifteéne hundred thousand which should be reserued for the Kinges Maiestie Wherefore they allied themselues with La Roquette and another of his confederates whose name was Le Geure in whom not withstanding I had great affiance This Geure excaeding desirous to enrich himselfe in those partes and seéking to be reuenged because I would not giue him the carriage of the Paquet into France secretly enformed the souldiers that were already suborned by La Roquette that I would depriue them of this great gaine in that I did set them dayly on worke not sending them on euery side to discouer the Countreyes therefore that it were a good deéde after they had made me vnderstand so much to seéke meanes to dispatch me out of the way and to choose another Captaine in my place if I would not giue them victuals according to their disordinate appetite He also brought me worde hereof himselfe making a large discourse vnto me of the good affection of the souldiers which all besought mee that I would conduct them to the countreys where the Mine was I made him answere that all could not goe thither and that it was necessarie before their departure to settle our fortresse in such estate that those which were to stay at home behind shoulde remaine in securitie against the Indians which might surprise them Furthermore that their manner of proceéding seémed strange vnto me for that they imagined that the Kinges Maiestie was at the charges of our voyage for none other ende but to enrich them at their first arriuall in as much as they shewed themselues much more giuen vnto couetousnesse theâ— vnto the seruice of their Prince But seeing mine answere tended vnto none other ende but to make our fortresse strong and defensible they determined to trauell in the worke and made an ensigne of olde lynen which ordinarily they bare vpon the ramparte when they went to worke alwayes wearing their weapons which I thought they had done to incourage themselues to worke the better But as I perceiued afterwardes and that by the confession of Gieure sent me in letters which he writ to me of that matter these gentle souldiers did the same for none other ende but to haue killed me and my lieuetenant also if by chaunce I had giuen them any harde speéches About the twentieth of September as I came home from the woods and Coppises to finish the building of my fort and that according to my manner I marched first to giue encouragement vnto my souldiers I chased my selfe in such sort that I fell into a sickenesse whereof I thought I should die During the which I called Le Gieure often vnto me as one that I trusted aboue all others and of whose conspiracies I doubted not any whit at all In this meane while assembling his complices sometime in his chamber and sometime in the woods to consult with them he spake vnto them to choose another Captaine besides me to the intent to put me to death but being not able by open force to execute his mischienous intention he gate him vnto mine Apothecarie praying him instantly to mingle in my medicine which I was to receiue one or two dayes after some drug that should make me pitch ouer the perche or at the least that he would giue him a litle arseâ—ike or quicke siluer which he himselfe woulde put into my drinke But the apothecary denied him as did in â—â—ke manner maister S. which was maister of the fire workes Thus wholely disappoynted of both his meanes he with certayne others resolued to hide a litle barrel of gunne-powder vnderneath my bed and by a trayne to set it on fire Uppon these practises a gentleman which I had dispatched to returne into Fraunce being about to take his leaue of me aduertised mee that Gieure had giuen him a booke full of all kinde of lewde inuectiues and slaunders against mee against Monsieur De Ottigny and against the principall of my companie vpon which occasion I assembled all my souldiers together and captaine Bourdet with all his which on the fourth of September arriued in the rode and were come into our riuer In their presence I caused the contentes of the booke to be reade alowde that they might â—eare recorde of the vntruths that were written against me Gieure which had gotten him into the woods for feare of being taken where he liued for a while after with the sauages by my permission writ vnto me often and in many of his letters confessed vnto me that he had deserued death condemning himselfe so farre foorth that he referred all to my mercie and pitie The seauenth or eighth of Nouember after I had caused sufficient prouision of such victuals as were neédefull to be made I sent two of my men to wit La Roche Ferriere and an other toward king Vtina to discouer euery day more and more of the countrey where he was the space of fiue or sixe moneths during which he discouered many villages and among others one named Hostaqua the king whereof
lake of freshwater named Sarrope about fiue leagues in bignesse abounding with many sortes of fruites specially in Dates which growe on the palme trées whereof they make a wonderfull traficke yet not so great as a kinde of roote whereof they make a kinde of meale so good to make bread of that it is vnpossible to eate better and that for fifteene leagues about all the countrie is fed therewith Which is the cause that the inhabitantes of the Isle gaine of their neighbours great wealth and profite for they will not depart with this roote without they he well payed for it besides that they are taken for the most warrelike men of all that countrie as they made good proofe when the king of Calos hauing made alliance with Oathcaqua was depriued of Oathcaquaes daughter which hee had promised to him in marriage Hee tolde mee the whole matter in this sorte As Oathcaqua well accompanied with his people carried one of his daughters excéeding beawtifull according to the coulour of the countrey vnto king Calos to giue her vnto him for his wife the inhabitantes of his Isle aduertised of the matter layde an ambush for him in a place where hee should passe and so behaued themselues that Oathcaqua was discomfited the betrothed young spouse taken and all the Damoselles that accompanied her which they carried vnto their Isle which thing in all the Indians countrey they esteeme to be the greatest victorie for afterwarde they marrie these virgins and loue them aboue all measure The Spaniarde that made this relation tolde me that after this defeite he went to dwell with Oathcaqua and had béene with him full eight yeares euen vntil the time that hee was sent vnto mee The place of Calos is situate vppon a riuer which is beyond the Cape of Florida fortie or fiftie leagues towardes the Southwest and the dwelling of Oathcaqua is on this side the Cape towarde the North in a place which we call in the Carte Caignaueral which is in eight and twentie degrées About the fiue and twenteth of Ianuarie Paracoussy Satourioüa my neighbour sent me certayne presentes by two of his subiectes to perswade me to ioyne with him and to make warre vppon Ouae Vtina which was my friende and farther besought mee to retyre certayne of my men which were with Vtina for whome if it had not béene hee had oftentimes set vppon him and defeited him he besought me herein by diuers other kinges his allies which for thrée weekes or a monethes space sent messengers vnto mee to this ende and purpose But I woulde not graunt vnto them that they should make warre vppon him yea rather contrariwise I endeuoured to make them friendes wherein they condiscended vnto mee so farre foorth that they were content to allowe of any thing that I would set downe whereupon the two Spaniardes which of long time knew well the nature of the Indians warned me that in any case I should not trust vnto them because that when they shewed good countenance and the best chéere vnto men then was the time that they woulde surprise and betraye them and that of their nature they were the greatest traitours and most deepe dissemblers of the worlde Besides I neuer trusted them but vpon good ground as one that had discouered a thousand of their craftes and subtilties aswel by experience as by reading of the histories of late yeares Our two barkes were not so soone finished but I sent Captayne Vasseur to disconer a long the coste lying towarde the Northe and commaunded him to saile vnto a riuer the king wherof was called Audusta which was lord of that place where those of the yeare 1562. inhabites I sent him twoe sutes of apparel with certaine hachats kniues and other smale trifles the better to insinuate my selfe into his friendshippe And the better to win him I sent in the barke with captaine Vasseur a soldier called Aimon which was one of them which returned home in the firste voyage hoping that king Audusta might remember him But before they were embarked I commanded them to make inquirie what was become of another called Rouffi which remained alone in those parts when Nicolas Masson and those of the firste voyage embarked themselues to returne into France They vnderstood at their arriual there that a barke passing that waye had caried awaye the same soldier And afterward I knew for a certaintie that they were Spaniardes which had carried him to Hauana The kinge Audusta sent mee backe my barke ful of mill with a certaine quantitie of beanes twoe stages some skins painted after theire maner and certaine pearles of small value because they were burnt and sent me worde that if I woulde dwel in his quarters he woulde geue me a greate countrye and that after hee had gathered his mil he would spare me as much as I would haue In the meane while there came vnto our forte a flocke of stocke voues in so greate nomber and that for the space of seuen weekes together that euery daye wee killed with hargubuse shot twoe hundred in the woods aboute our forte After that captaine Vasseur was returned I caused the two barkes to be furnished againe with soldiers and mariners and sent them to carrie a present from mee vnto the widow of king Hioacaia whose dwelling was distante from our forte about twelue leages northward Shee curteously receaued our men sent me backe my barks full of mil and acorns with certaine baskets full of the leaues of Cassine where with they make their drinke And the place where this widowe dwelleth is the most plentiful of mil that is in all the coaste and the moste pleasant It is thought that the queene is the most beautiful of al the Indians and of whome they make most accompt yea and her subiects honour her so much that almost continualy they beare her on their shoulders and wil not suffer her to go on foote With in a few daies after the return of my barks she sent to visit me by her Hiatiqui which is as much to saye as her interpreter Nowe while I thought I was furnished with victuals vntill the time that our shippes might come out of France for feare of keeping my people idle I sent my two barkes to discouer along the riuer and vp toward the head thereof which went so farre vp that they were thirtie leagues good beyonde a place named Mathiaqua and there they discouered the entrance of a lake vpō the oneside whereof no land can bee seene according to the reporte of the Indians which had oftentimes climed on the hiest trees in the country to see land and notwithstanding could not discerne any which was the cause that my men went no further but returned backe and in comminge home went to see the Ilande of Edelano situated in the midst of the riuer as faire a place as any that may be seene through the world For in the
space of some three leagues that it may containe in length and breadth a man maye see an exceeding riche countrie and marueilou fly peopled At the comming out of the village of Edelano to go vnto the riuers side a man must passe through an allie aboute three hundred pases long and fiftie paces broade on both sides whereof greate trees are planted the boughes whereof are tied together like an arche and meete together so artificiallye that a man woulde thinke it were an arboure made of purpose as faire I saye as any in all christendome although it be altogether naturall Our men departing from this place rowed to Eneguape then to Chilily from thence to Patica lastly they came vnto Coya where leuing their barks in a little creeke of the riuer with men to gard them they went to visit Vtina which receaued them very courteously and when they departed from his house hee entreated them so earnestly that sixe of my men remained with him of which nūber there was one gentleman named Groutauld which after he had aboade there aboute two monethes and taken great paines to discouer the countrie with another which I had left a great while there to that intent came vnto mee to the fort and tolde mee that he neuer sawe a fairer countrie Amonge other thinges he reported vnto me that he had sene a place named Hostaqua that the king thereof was so mightie that he was able to bring three or foure thousand sauages to the field with whom if I would ioine enter in to league we might be able to reduce all the rest of the inhabitants vnto our obedience Besides that this king knewe the passages vnto the mountaine of Apalassi which the French men desired so greatly to attaine vnto and where the enimie of Hostaqua made his abode which was easie to be subdued if so be wee woulde enter into league together This king sent me a plate of a mynerall that came out of this mountayne out of the foote whereof there runneth a streame of golde or copper as the sauages thinke out of which they digge vp the sande with an holow and drie cane of a reéde vntill the cane be full afterwarde they shake it and finde that there are manie small graines of copper and syluer among this sande which giueth them to vnderstande that some rich myne must neéds be in the Mountaine And because the mountaine was not past fiue or sixe dayes iourney from our fort lying toward the northwest I determined assone as our supplie should come out of France to remoue our habitation vnto some riuers more toward the north that I might be neérer therunto One of my soldiers whose name was Peter Gamby which had remained a long space before in this countrie to learne the languages and trafficke with the Indians at the last came to the village of Edelano where hauing gotten together a certaine quantitie of gold and syluer purposing to returne vnto me he prayed the king of the village to lend him a Canoa which is a vessell made of one whole piece of wood which the Indians vse to fish with al and to row vpon the riuers which this lorde of Edelano graunted him But being greédy of the riches which he had he commanded two Indians which heé had charged to conduct him in the Canoa to murder him bring him the marchandise the gold which he had Which y ◠two traitors villanously executed for they knockt him in the head with an hatchet as he was blowing of the fire in the Canoa to seéth fishe The Paracoussy Vtina sent certayne dayes afterward to pray me to lende him a dosen or fifteéne of my shot to enuade his enimie Potanou sent me word that this enimie once vanquished he would make me passage yea and would conduct mee vnto the mountains in such sort that no man should be able to hinder me Then I assembled my men to demaunde theyr aduice as I was wont to doe in all mine enterprises The greater part was of opinion that I shoulde doe well to sende succour vnto this Paracoussy because it would be harde for mee to discouer any farther vp into the countrie without his helpe and that the Spaniards when they were employed in their conquestes did alwaies enter into alliance with some one king to ruine another Notwithstanding because I did alwayes mistrust the Indians and that the more after the last aduertisement that the Spaniards had giuen me I doubted least the small number which Vtina demaunded might incurre some danger wherefore I sent him thirtie shot vnder the charge of Lieuetenant Ottigny which stayed not aboue two dayes with Vtina while he prepared victuals for his voyage which ordinarily and according to the custome of the countrie are carried by women and yong boyes and by Hermaphrodites Vtina setting forward with threé hundred of his subiectes hauing ech of them their bowe and quiuer full of arrowes caused our thirtie shot to be placed in the forewarde and made them march all the day vntill that the night approching and hauing not gone past halfe the way they were enforced to lie alnight in the woodes neére a great sake and there to encampe themselues they seperated themselues by sixe and sixe making ech of them a fire about the place where their king lay for whose garde they ordayned a certayne number of those archars in whome hee put most confidence As soone as daye was come the campe of the Indians marched within threé leagues of Potanou There king Vtina requested my Lieutenant to graunt him foure or fiue of his men to goe and discouer the countrey which departed immediately and had not gone farre but they perceyued vpon a lake distant about threé leagues from the village of Potanou three Indians which fished in a Canoa Nowe the custome is that when they fishe in this lake they haue alwayes a companie of Watchmen armed with Bowes and Arrowes to garde the fishers Our men being hereof aduertised by those of the companie durst not passe any further for feare of falling into some ambushe Wherefore they returned towardes Vtina which suddenly sent them backe with a greater company to surprise the fishers before they might retyre and aduertise their king Potanou of the comming of his enimies Which they coulde not execute so politikely but that two of them escaped the third also did the best he could to saue himselfe by swimming in which meane while hee was staied with shotte of arrowes and they drew him starke dead vnto the bankes side where our Indians fleade of the skinne of his head cut of both his armes in the high way reseruing his haire for the triumphe which their king hoped to make for the defeate of his enimie Vtina fearing least Potanou aduertised by the Fishers which were escaped shoulde put himselfe in armes to withstand him valiantly asked counsell of his Iawa which is
asmuch to say in their language as his Magician whether it were best to goe any farther Then this Magician made certaine signes hidious and fearefull to beholde and vsed certaine wordes which being ended he sayd vnto his king that it was not best to passe any farther that Potanou accompanied with two thousand Indians at the least staied in such and such a place for him to byd him battaile and besides this that all the sayd Indians were furnished with coards to binde the prisoners which they made full accompt to take This relation caused Vtina to be vnwilling to passe any farther Whereupon my Lieuetenant being as angry as euer he might be because he had taken so great paines without doing any thing of accompt sayd vnto him that he would neuer thinke well of him nor of his people if he would not hazard himselfe and that if he would not doe it at the least that he would giue him a guide to conduct him and his small companye to the place where the enimies were encamped Hereupon Vtina was ashamed and seeing the good affection on of Mountieur de Ottigny determined to goe forward And he failed not to find his enimies in the very place which the Magician had named where the skirmish began which lasted three long houres wherein without doubt Vtina had beene defeated vnlesse our harquebusiers had not borne the burthen brunt of all the battaile and slaine a great number of the souldiers of Potanou vpon which occasion they were put to flight Wherewithall Vtina being content for the present caused his people to retire returne homewarde to the great discontentment of Mounsieur de Ottigny which desired nothing more then to pursue his victorie After he was come home to his house he sent messagers to eighteen or twenty villages of other kings his vassals and summoned them to be present at the feasts and dances which he purposed to celebrate because of his victorie In the meane while Mounsieur de Ottigny refreshed himselfe for two daies and then taking his leaue of the Paracoussi and leauing him twelue of his men to see that Potanou bethinking himselfe of his late losse should not come to burne the houses of Vtina hee set forward on his way to come vnto me vnto our fort where he vp and told me howe euery thing had passed and withall that hee had promised the twelue souldiers that hee woulde come backe againe to fetch them Then the kinges my neighbours all enemies to Vtina being aduertised of the returne of my Lieuetenaunt came to visite me with presents and to enquire how things had passed praying mee all to receiue them into my fauour and to become enimy to Vtina which notwithstanding I would not graunt them for many reasons that moued mee The Indians are wont to leaue their houses and to retire themselues into the woods the space of three moneths to witte Ianuary February March during which time by no meanes a man can see one Indian For when they goe on hunting they make little cottages in the woodes whereunto they retire themselues liuing vpon that which they take in hunting This was the cause that during this time we could get no victuals by their meanes and had it not beene that I had made good prouision thereof while my men had store vntill the ende of Aprill which was the time when at the vttermost we hoped to haue had succour out of France I should haue beene greatly amazed This hope was the cause that the souldiers tooke no great care to look well vnto their victuals although I deuided equally among theÌ„ that which I could get abroad in the countrey without reseruing vnto my selfe any more then the least souldyer of all the company The moneth of May approching and no manner of succour commen out of France we fell into extreame want of victuals constrained to eate the rootes of the earth and certaine sorrell which we found in the fieldes For although the sauages were retourned by this time vnto their villages yet they succoured vs with nothing but certaine fish without which assuredly wee had perished with famine Besides they had giuen vs before the greatest part of their maiz and of their beanes for our marchandise This famine held vs from the beginning of May vntill the middest of Iune During which time the poore souldyers and handycraftesmen become as féeble as might be and beeing not able to worke did nothing but goe one after another in centinel vnto the clift of an hill scituate very néere vnto the fort to sée if they might discouer any French shippe In fine beeing frustrated of their hope they assembled altogether and came to beséech me to take some order that they might returne into France considering that if we let passe the season to embarke our selues we were neuer like to sée our countrie where it coulde not bee chosen but that some troubles were fallen out séeing they had broken their promise made vnto vs and that no succour was come from thence Thervpon it was consulted and resolued by all the companye that the barke Breton should be trimmed vp whereof Captaine Vasseur had charge But because the shippe was not bigge inough to receaue vs all some thought good to builde the Brigantine two deckes higher which our mutinous soldyers had brought backe and that 25. men should hazard themselues to passe therein into France The rest being better aduised said that it shoulde be farre better to builde a faire shippe vpon the kéele of the galiote which I had caused to be made promising to labour couragiously there vpon Then I enquired of my shipwrights to know in what space they coulde make this shippe readie They assured the whole company that being furnished with all things necessarie they would make it ready by the eighth of August Immediately I disposed of the time to wâ—rke vppon it I gaue charge to Mounsieur de Ottigny my Lieuetenant to cause tymber necessarye for the finishing of both the vessels to bee brought and to Mounsieur de Arlac my standart bearer to goe with a barke a league of from the fort to cut downe trees fit to make planckes and to cause the sawiers which he carried with him to saw them and to my Sergeaunt of the companye to cause fiftéene or sixtéene men to labour in making coales and to Master Hance keeper of the artillery and to the gunner to gather store of rosen to braye the vessels wherein he vsed such diligence that in lesse then three wéekes he gathered two hogsheads of the same together There remained now but the principal which was to recouer victuals to sustaine vs while our worke endured which I vndertooke to do with the rest of my company and the Mariners of the shippe To this end I embarked my selfe making vp y â— thirtieth in my great barke to make a voyage of fortie or fiftie leagues hauing with vs no prouision at all
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
commandement And that I neuer honoured noble man so much nor did to any more willing faithfull seruice then to my Lord Admirall nor euer sought aduancement but by his meanes You seé how things passed for this day The next day the Indians came in from all partes to know what people these were to whome I signified that this was hee which in the yeare a thousande fiue hundred sixtie and two arriued in this countrie and erected the piller whiche stoode at the entrie of the riuer Some of them knew him for in truth he was easie to be knowen by reason of the greate bearde whiche hee ware He receaued many presents of theÌ„ which were of the villages neére adioyning among whom there were some that he had not yet forgotten The kinges Homoloa Sarauahi Alimacani Malica and Casti came to visite him and welcome him with diuerse giftes according to their manner I aduertised them that he was sent thither by the king of Fraunce to remayne there in my roome and that I was sent for Then they demaunded and prayed him if it might stand with his good pleasure to cause the marchandise that he had brought with him to be deliuered them and that in fewe dayes they woulde bring him to the mountaines of Apalassy whither they had promised to conduct mee and that in case they performed not theyr promise that they were content to be cut in peéces In those mountaines as they sayde is founde red copper which they call in their language Sieroa Pira which is asmuch to say as redde mettell whereof I had a peéce which at the verie instant I shewed to Captaine Ribault which caused his gold-finer to make an assay thereof which reported vnto him that it was perfect golde About the time of these conferences commings and goings of the kings of the countrey being weakened with my former trauaile fallen into a melancholie vpon the false reportes that had beéne made of me I fell into a great continuall feuer which helde me eight or nyne dayes during which time Captaine Ribault caused his victuals to be brought on shore and bestowed the most part thereof in the house which my Lieutenant had built about two hundred pases without the fort which he did to thende they might bee the better defended from the weather and likewise to the intent that the meale might be neerer to the bake-house which I had built of purpose in that place the better to auoide the danger of the fire as I said before But loe how oftentimes misfortune doth serch pursue vs euen then when we thinke to be at rest lo seé what happened after that captaine Ribault had brought vp threé of his small ships into the riuer which was the fourth of September Sixe great Spanish ships arriued in the rode where foure of our greatest ships remained which cast anker assuring our men of good amitie They asked how the chiefe captaines of the enterprise did called them all by their names and surnames I report me to you if it could be otherwise but these men before they went out of Spaine must neéds be enformed of the enterprise and of those that were to execute the same About y e breake of day they began to make toward our men but our men which trusted them neuer a deale had hoised their sayles by night being ready to cut the stringes that tyed them Wherefore perceiuing y t this making toward our men of the Spaniards was not to do them any pleasure and knowing well that their furniture was to smal to make head against them bicause that y e most part of their men were on shore they cut their Cables left their ankers and set saile The Spaniards seéing theÌ„ selues discouered lent theÌ„ certaine volâ—es of their great ordinaÌ„ce made saile after them chased them al day long but our men got way of them stil toward the sea And the Spaniardes seéing they could not rech them by reason that the french ships were better of saile then theirs and also because they would not leaue the coast turned backe and went on shore in the riuer Seloy which we call the riuer of Dolphines eight or ten leagues distant froÌ„ the place where we were Our men therefore finding themselues better of saile then they followed them to discry what they did which after they had don they returned vnto the riuer of May where captaine Ribault hauing discryed theÌ„ embarked himselfe in a great boat to know what newes they had Being at the entrie of the riuer he mette with the boat of Captaine Cousets shippe wherein there was a good number of men which made relation vnto him of all the Spaniards doings and how the great ship named the Trinitie had kept the sea and that she was not returned with theÌ„ They told him moreouer y t they had seéne threé Spanish ships enter into y e riuer of Dolphins the other threé remained in y e rode farther y t they had put their soldiers their victuals munitioÌ„ on land After he vnderstood these newes he returned to the fortresse came to my chamber where I was sicke there in the presence of y e captaines La Grange S. Marie Ottigny Visty Yonuille other gentlemen he propounded y t it was necessarie for y e kings seruice to embark himself with al his forces with y â— threé ships y â— were in the rode to seéke the Spanish fleéte whereupon he asked our aduise I first replyed and shewed vnto him the consequence of such an enterprise aduertising him among other thinges of the perilous flawes of windes that rise on this coast and that if it chaunced that he were driuen from the shore it woulde bee verie harde for him to recouer it agayne that in the meane while they which shoulde stay in the fort shoulde be in feare and danger The Captaines Saint Marie and La Grange declared vnto him farther that they thought it not good to put any such enterprise in execution that it was farre better to keépe the lande and doe their best endeuour to fortifie themselues And that after that the Trinitie which was the principall shippe were returned there woulde be much more likelihood to enterprise this voyage This notwithstanding he resolued to vndertake it and that which more is after he vnderstoode by king Emola one of our neighbours which arriued vppon the handling of these matters that y â— Spaniards in great numbers were gone on shore which had taken possession of the houses of Seloy in the most part whereof they had placed their Negros which they had brought to labour and also lodged themselues and had cast diuers trenches about them Thus for the considerations which hee had and doubtinge as hee might well doe that the Spaniardes woulde encampe themselues there to molest vs and in the ende to chase vs out of the countrie hee resolued and persisted in his
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