RENE LAUDOXNIERE a.d. 



1564. 

 at what time they would come againe unto me to certifie 

 me of their Lords inclination : which they failed not to 

 doe, advertising me that Paracoussy Satourioua was the 

 gladdest man in the world to treate of this accord 

 (although indeed hee was quite contrary) and that he 

 besought mee to be diligent therein, promising to 

 observe and performe whatsoever I should agree upon 

 with those of Thimogoa : which things the messengers 

 also rehearsed unto the prisoners which I had ledde away. 

 After they were departed, I resolved within two dayes to 

 sende backe againe the prisoners to Olata Ouae Utina, 

 whose subjects they were : but before I embarked them, 

 I gave them certaine small trifles, which were little knives 

 or tablets of glasse, wherein the image of King Charles 

 the ninth was drawen very lively, for which they gave 

 me very great thankes, as also for the honest entertain- 

 ment which was given them at the Fort Caroline. After 

 this they embarked themselves, with Captaine Vasseur, 

 and with Monsieur de Arlac mine Ensigne, which I had 

 sent of purpose to remaine a certaine time with Ouae 

 Utina, hoping that the favour of this great Paracoussy 

 would serve my turne greatly to make my discoveries 

 in time to come. I sent with him also one of my 

 Sergeants, and sixe gallant Souidiers. 



Thus things passed on this maner, and the hatred of 

 Paracoussy Satourioua against mee did still continue, until 

 that on the nine and twentieth of August a lightning [HI. 331.] 

 from heaven fell within halfe a league of our Fort, ^/^onderfull 

 more worthy I beleeve to be wondered at, and to bee ]^ ofJu2-^st 

 put in writing, then all the strange signes which have 

 bene scene in times past, and whereof the histories have 

 never written. For although the medowes were at that 

 season all greene, and halfe covered over with water, 

 neverthelesse the lightning in one instant consumed above 

 five hundred acres therewith, and burned with the ardent 

 heate thereof all the foules which tooke their pastime in 

 the medowes, which thing continued for three dayes 

 space, which caused us not a little to muse, not being 



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