RENE LAUDONNIERE ad. 



^564. 

 my promise, and in so doing, hee hoped to procure 



mee Golde and Silver in such good quantitie, that mine 



affaires shoulde take effect according to mine owne and 



his desire. 



The matter thus fully resolved upon, I tooke my 



leave of him to returne unto my shippes, where after 



wee had rested our selves all the night following, wee 



hoysed sayles the next day very earely in the morning, 



and sayled towarde the River of Seine, distant from the The river of 



River of May about foure leagues : and there continu- ^^^^^' 



ing our course towarde the North, wee arrived at the 



mouth of Somme, which is not past sixe leagues T'he river of 



distant from the River of Seine : where wee cast Anker, ^°^^^' 



and went on shoare to discover that place as wee had 



done the rest. There wee were gratiously and cour- ^^^ courtesie 



teously received of the Paracoussy of the Countrey, ^^^^^ ^^^^~ 



which is one of the tallest men and best proportioned ^li^^erof 



that may bee founde. His wife sate by him, which Somme. 



besides her Indian beautie, wherewith shee was greatly 



endewed, had so vertuous a countenance and modest 



gravitie, that there was not one amongst us but did 



greatly commend her ; shee had in her traine five of 



her daughters of so good grace and so well brought up, 



that I easily perswaded my selfe that their mother was 



their Mistresse, and had taught them well and straightly 



to preserve their honestie. After that the Paracoussy had 



received us as I have sayde, hee commaunded his wife 



to present mee with a certaine number of bullets of silver, [III. 324.] 



for his owne part hee presented mee with his bowe and 



his arrowes, as hee had done unto Captaine John Ribault 



in our first voyage, which is a signe of a perpetuall amitie 



and alliance with those which they honour with such a 



kinde of present. In our discoursing with one another, 



wee entred into speach as touching the exercise of armes. 



Then the Paracoussy caused a corselet to be set on end, 



and prayed me to make a proofe of our Harguebuzes 



and their bowes : but this proofe pleased him very little ; 



for assoone as he knew that our Harguebuzes did easily 



