The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation Volume Xiii Part 47

M489 King Audustas great humanity.

_ 121 Marginal note_.-Peter Martyr writeth cap. 1. decad. 7. that the like flocks of pigeons are in the isles of the Lucayos.

M490 The widow of King Hioacaia, or Hihouhacara.

M491 This queenes name was Nia Cubicani.

M492 The fift voyage vp the riuer of May.

M493 Vtina sendeth to Laudonniere for his helpe.

M494 A good note.

M495 Three hundred Indians.

M496 Iawa signifieth their Priest or Magician.

M497 Potanou accompanied with two thousand Indians.

M498 The prediction of the Magician found true.

M499 Vtina hath 18 or 20 kings to his Va.s.sals.

M500 A custome of the Indians to leaue their houses for 3 or 4 moneths and to liue in the woods.

M501 They looke for succour out of France by the end of April at the vttermost.

M502 Extreme famine for sixe weekes s.p.a.ce.

M503 The vile nature of the Indians.

M504 Vtina taken prisoner in his village by Laudonniere and 50 of his souldiers.

M505 Note.

M506 Note.

M507 New corne by the end of May in Florida.

M508 A little greene fruite that groweth in the riuers as big as cheries.

M509 Two Carpenters killed for gathering the Indians maize.

M510 Patica a village.

M511 Desire of reuenge rooted in the sauage.

M512 A necessarie admonition.

M513 The Floridians subtilities.

M514 A certaine signe of warre.

M515 A skirmish betwene the Sauages and the French.

M516 A second fresh charge of Sauages.

M517 The Floridians maner of fight.

M518 Courtesie and liberalitie the best meanes to deale with the sauages.

M519 The beating downe of the houses without the fort, and the Palisade.

M520 The cause why the French lost Florida.

M521 Eight kings Laudonniers friends and allies.

M522 The princ.i.p.all scope of planters in strange countreys.

M523 Florida a rich countrey.

M524 Aug. 1565.

M525 M. Iohn Hawkins the English Generall.

M526 Sheepe and poulterie carried into Florida.

M527 An aduantage wisely taken.

M528 The French mistrusted that the Englishmen would plant in Florida.

M529 Silver found in Florida.

M530 Note. The great importance of this enterprise.

M531 The great humanit.i.te and bounty of Master Iohn Hawkins to the French.

M532 The departure of the English Generall.

M533 The arriual of Captaine Iohn Ribault at the Fort the 28 of August 1565.

M534 Note.

M535 False reports of Laudonniere to the Admirall of France.

M536 The danger of back-biting.

M537 Alcibiades banished by backbiters.

M538 Laudonnieres receiuing of Captaine Ribault.

M539 Letters of the Lord Admirall vnto Laudonniere.

M540 Accusations against him.

M541 Laudonnieres answere thereunto.

M542 Five Indian kings.

M543 The mountaines of Apalatcy wherein are mines of perfect gold. Sieroa Pira red mettall.

M544 Good meanes to auoid the danger of fire.

M545 The Spaniards undermining and surprizing of the French.

_ 122 Marginal note_.-The Riuer Seloy or the riuer of Dolphins but 8 or 10 leagues ouer land from the fort: but it is thirty doubling the Cape by sea.

M546 Dangerous flawes of wind on the coast of Florida in September.

M547 A village and riuer both of that name.

M548 An aduertisment of my Lord Admirall to Captaine Ribault.

M549 A mighty tempest the 10 of September.

M550 Landonniere hardly vsed by Ribault.

M551 Landonniere and his company begin to fortifie themselues.

M552 A muster of men left in the fort by Ribault.

M553 The Spanyards discryed the 20 of September.

M554 The Spaniards enter the fort.

M555 Francis Iean a traitour to his nation.

M556 Don Pedro Melendes captaine of the Spaniards.

M557 Laudonniers escape.

M558 Iohn du Chemin a faithful seruant.

M559 The diligence of the Mariners to saue them that escaped out of the fort.

M560 Among these was Iaques Morgues painter sometime liuing in the Blackfryers in London.

M561 Francis Iean cause of this enterprise.

M562 The bad dealing of Iames Ribault.

M563 Our returne into France the 25. of September 1565.

M564 Laudonniers arriuall in Swansey Bay in Glamorgans.h.i.+re in South Wales.

M565 The courtesie of our Master Morgan.

M566 Monsieur de Foix Amba.s.sador for the French king in England.

M567 The conclusion.

M568 The causes why the French lost Florida.

M569 The chanell of Bahama betweene Florida and the Isles of Lucayos.

M570 The Frenchmens landing at the riuer Tacatacourou.

M571 Complaints of the Sauages against the Spanyards.

M572 Peter de Bre had liued about two yeeres with Satourioua.

M573 Three pledges deliuered to Gourges by Satourioua.

M574 The estate of the Spanyards in Florida.

M575 The riuer Saracary, or Sarauahi.

M576 The a.s.sault and taking of the first Fort.

M577 The valure of Olotocara.

M578 The a.s.sault and taking of the second fort.

M579 The Sauages great swimmers.

M580 The Spaniards of the second Fort all slaine.

M581 Note.

M582 A notable Spanish subtiltie.