RENE LAUDONNIERE a.d. 



1564. 

 league. While king Molloua had ended intertaining 

 Captaine Vasseur and his men, the souldier came in with 

 five or sixe pounds weight of silver which he had trucked ^'^^^ ^^ "f^^ 

 and traffiqued with Indians. ^Jnilver^^ 



This King caused bread to bee made, and fish to bee 

 dressed after the Indian fashion to feast our men : to 

 whom, while they were at meate, hee made a discourse of 

 divers other Kings his friends & allies, reckoning up to 

 the number of nine of them by name, to wit, Cadecha, 

 Chilili, Eclauou, Enacappe, Calany, Anacharaqua, Omit- 

 taqua, Aequara, Moquoso : all which with him to the 

 number of more then fortie, hee assured us to bee the J^ortte kings 

 vassals of the most renowmed Olata Ouae Utina. jjtina 



This done, hee went about likewise to discover the [ni. 327.] 

 enemies of Ouae Utina, in which number hee placed as 

 the first the Paracoussy Satourioua Monarch of the 

 confines of the river of May, which hath under his obey- 

 sance thirtie other Paracoussies, whereof there were ten 

 which were all his brethren, and that therefore hee was 

 greatly esteemed in those partes : then hee named three 

 others no lesse puissant then Satourioua, whereof the 

 first dwelt two dayes journey from his lord Olata Ouae 

 Utina, and ordinarily made warre upon him, whose name 

 was Potanou, a man cruell in warre, but pitiful! in the KingPotanou. 

 execution of his furie. For hee tooke the prisoners to 

 mercy, being content to marke them on the left arme 

 with a great marke like unto a scale, and so imprinted 

 as if it had bene touched with an hotte yron, then 

 hee let them goe without any more hurt. The two 

 others were named Onatheaqua, and Houstaqua, being 

 great Lords, and abounding in riches, and principally 

 Onatheaqua, which dwelt neere unto the high moun- 

 taines, wherein there was abundance of many rare things, ^» exceeding 

 & infinite quantitie of a kinde of slate stone, wherewith ^^^^P^^'^^- 

 they made wedges to cleave their wood. The occasion 

 which (as he sayd) mooved Potanou to wage warre 

 against Olata Ouae Utina, was the feare that he had, 

 lest he and his companions should get of that hard 



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