RENE LAUDONNIERE ad. 



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 Utina which he detained, whereof notwithstanding he 



made no great accompt, which was the principal! cause 



wherefore I had discharged mine Ordinance against him : 



not that I meant to reach unto his house (as I might 



have done easily, if it had pleased me) but that I was 



content to shoote the halfe way to make him knowe my 



force : assuring him furthermore, that on condition that Laudonniere 



he would continue in his good affection, no more ordi- ^^^d, the pre - 



nance should be discharged against him hereafter : and ^^ J'^'^^^^T* 



besides that I would become his faithfull protectour 



against his greatest enemies. 



The Indians contented with mine answere returned to 

 assure their Paracoussy, which notwithstanding the assur- 

 ance withdrewe himselfe from his dwelling twentie or five 

 and twentie leagues off and that for the space of more 

 then two moneths. After that three dayes were expired, 

 the fire was quite extinguished. But for two dayes after 

 there followed such an excessive heate in the aire, that A wonderfull 

 the River neere unto which we planted our habitation, ^^^^^• 

 became so hoat, that I thinke it was almost ready to seeth. 

 For there died so great abundance of fish, and that of so 

 many divers sorts, that in the mouth of the River onely 

 there were founde dead ynough to have loaden fiftie Fiftie cart load 

 Carts, whereof there issued a putrefaction in the aire, offish dead in 

 which bred many dangerous diseases amongst us, inso- f- ^^^/"^^^ 

 much that most of my men fell sicke, and almost ready 

 to ende their dayes. Yet notwithstanding it pleased our 

 mercifull God so to provide by his providence, that all 

 our men recovered their health without the losse of any 

 one of them. 



Monsieur de Arlac, Captaine Vasseur, and one of my "Ihe thirde 

 Sergeants being embarked with their tenne Souldiers "^'oyage the 

 about the tenth of September, to cary backe the prisoners ^^J^^^ ^ 

 unto Utina, sailed so farre up the River, that they dis- 

 covered a place called Mayarqua distant from our Fort Mayarqua a 

 about fourescore leagues, where the Indians gave them P^^'^^ ^°- 

 good entertainement, and in many other villages which ^rf-^!^^^ ft/ ^ 

 they found. From this place they rowed to the dwel- 

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