A.D. 

 1564. 



Laudonniers 

 second voyage 

 to Florida, 

 with three 

 ships the 22 

 of Aprill 

 1564. 



The Isle of 

 Teneriffa, or 

 the Pike. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



depart with diligence to performe his commandement, 

 which for mine owne part I would not gainesay, but 

 rather thinking my selfe happy to have bene chosen 

 out among such an infinite number of others, which 

 in my judgement were very well able to have quitted 

 themselves in this charge, I embarked my selfe at 

 New Haven the 22 of Aprill 1564, and sayled so, that 

 we fell neere unto the coast of England : and then I 

 turned towards the South, to sayle directly to the 

 fortunate Islands, at this present called the Canaries, 

 one of which called the Isle Salvage (because as I 

 thinke it is altogether without inhabitants) was the first 

 that our ships passed. Sayling therefore on forward, 

 we landed the next day in the Isle of Teneriffa, 

 otherwise called the Pike, because that in the middest 

 thereof there is an exceeding high mountaine, neere as 

 high as that of Etna, which riseth up like a pike, into 

 the top whereof no man can go up but from the 

 middest of May untill the middest of August, by 

 reason of the over great colde which is there all the 

 yere : which is a wonderfull strange thing, considering 

 that it is not past 27 degrees and an half distant from 

 the Equator. We saw it all covered over with snow, 

 although it were then but the fift of May. The 

 inhabitants in this Isle being heretofore pursued by the 

 Spaniards, retired themselves into this mountaine, where 

 for a space they made warre with them, and would not 

 submit themselves to their obedience, neither by foule 

 nor faire meanes, they disdained so much the losse of 

 their Island. For those which went thither on the 

 Spaniards behalfe, left their carkases there, so that 

 not so much as one of them returned home to 

 bring newes. Notwithstanding in the ende, the in- 

 habitants not able to live in that place according to 

 their nature, or for want of such things as were 

 necessary for the commoditie of their livelyhood, did 

 all die there. After I had furnished my selfe with 

 some fresh water, very good and excellent, which 



