A.D. 



1564. 



A dangerous 

 practice 

 against the 

 Captaine and 

 hisLieutenant. 



Laudmniers 

 sicknesse. 



Laudonniers 

 Apothecarie. 

 ["I. 333.] 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



those which were to stay at home behind should remaine 

 in securitie against the Indians which might surprise 

 them. Furthermore, that their maner of proceeding 

 seemed strange unto mee, for that they imagined, that 

 the Kings Majestie was at the charges of our voyage 

 for none other ende, but onely to enrich them at their 

 first arrivall, in as much as they shewed themselves much 

 more given unto covetousnesse, then unto the service of 

 their Prince : But seeing mine answere tended unto 

 none other ende but to make our Fortresse strong and 

 defensible, they determined to travaile in the worke, and 

 made an ensigne of olde linnen, which ordinarily they 

 bare upon the rampart when they went to woorke, 

 alwayes wearing their weapons, which I thought they 

 had done to incourage themselves to worke the better. 

 But as I perceived afterwards, and that by the confession 

 of Genre sent mee in letters which he writ to mee of 

 that matter, these gentle Souldiers did the same for 

 none other ende, but to have killed mee, and my 

 Lieutenant also, if by chance I had given them any 

 hard speeches. 



About the twentieth of September, as I came home 

 from the woods and coppises to finish the building of 

 my Fort, (and that according to my usuall maner, I 

 marched first to give encouragement unto my Soldiers) 

 I chafed my selfe in such sort, that I fell into a sore 

 and grievous sicknesse, whereof I thought I should have 

 died : During which sicknesse, I called Le Genre often 

 unto mee, as one that I trusted above all others, and 

 of whose conspiracies I doubted not any whit at all. 

 In this meane while assembling his complices, sometime 

 in his chamber and sometime in the woods to consult 

 with them, hee spake unto them to choose another 

 Captaine besides mee, to the intent to put mee to death : 

 but being not able by open force to execute his mis- 

 chievous intention, hee gate him unto mine Apothecarie 

 praying him instantly to mingle in my medicine, which 

 I was to receive one or two dayes after, some drugge 



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