A.D. 

 1564. 



High building 

 is not good for 

 this Countrey. 



Nota. 



Caroline. 



[HI. 326,] 



The first voy- 

 age twentie 

 leagues. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Court to be made of eighteene paces long and broad, 

 in the middest whereof on the one side drawing toward 

 the South I builded a Corps de gard, and an house on the 

 other side toward the North, which I caused to bee 

 raised somewhat too high : for within a short while after 

 the wind beat it down : and experience taught me, that 

 we may not build with high stages in this Countrey, 

 by reason of the windes whereunto it is subject. One 

 of the sides that inclosed my Court, which I made very 

 faire and large, reached unto the Grange of my muni- 

 tions : and on the other side towardes the River was 

 mine owne lodging, round about which were galleries 

 all covered. The principall doore of my lodging was 

 in the middest of the great place, and the other was 

 towarde the River. A good distance from the Fort I 

 built an Oven to avoyde the danger against fire, because 

 the houses are of Palme leaves, which will soone be 

 burnt after the lire catcheth holde of them, so that with 

 much adoe a man shall have leasure to quench them. 

 Loe here in briefe the description of our Fourtresse, 

 which I named Caroline in the honour of our Prince 

 King Charles. 



After wee were furnished with that which was most 

 necessarie, I would not lose a minute of an houre, with- 

 out imploying of the same in some vertuous exercise : 

 therefore I charged Monsieur de Ottigni my Lieutenant, 

 a man in trueth worthy of all honour for his honestie and 

 vertue, to search up within the River, what this Thimo- 

 goa might be, whereof the Paracoussy Satourioua had 

 spoken to us so often at our comming on shoare. For 

 execution hereof the Paracoussy gave him two Indians for 

 his guides, which taking upon them to lead him in this 

 voyage, seemed to goe unto a wedding, so desirous they 

 were to fight with their enemies. 



Being imbarked they hoised sayle, and having sayled 

 about twentie leagues, the Indians which still looked on 

 this side and that side to espie some of their enemies, 

 discovered three Canoas. And immediatly they began to 



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