RENE LAUDONNIERE a.d. 



1564. 



that should make mee pitch over the pearch, or at the 



least that hee would give him a little Arsenike or quicke 



Silver, which hee himselfe would put into my drinke. 



But the Apothecary denied him, as did in like maner 



Master S. which was Master of the fire-workes. Thus The Master of 



wholly disappointed of both his meanes, hee with certaine the fireworks. 



others resolved to hide a little barrell of gunne-powder 



underneath my bed, and by a traine to set it on fire. 



Upon these practises a Gentleman which I had dis- 

 patched to returne into France, being about to take his 

 leave of me, advertised me, that Genre had given him 

 a booke full of all kinde of lewde invectives and slanders 

 against me, against Monsieur de Ottigny, and against 

 the principal of my company : upon which occasion I 

 assembled all my Souldiers together, and Captaine Captaine 

 Bourdet with all his, which on the fourth of September Bourdet ar- 

 arrived in the roade, and were come into our River. ^'^j^jV^ , 

 In their presence 1 caused the contents of the booke to J^^gpt^mber' 

 bee read alowde, that they might beare record of the 

 untruths that were written against mee. Genre, which 

 had gotten him into the woods for feare of being taken, 

 (where he lived for a while after with the Savages by my 

 permission,) writ unto mee often, and in many of his 

 letters confessed unto mee, that hee had deserved death, 

 condemning himselfe so farrefoorth, that he referred all 

 to my mercie and pitie. 



The seventh or eighth day of November, after I had The 4. voyage 

 caused sufficient provision of such victuals as were neede- ^^^ 7- ofNo- 

 fuU to bee made, I sent two of my men, to wit. La ^^^ ^^' 

 Roche Ferriere, and an other towarde King Utina, to 

 discover every day more and more of the Countrey : 

 where hee was the space of five or sixe moneths, during 

 which hee discovered many small villages, and among 

 others one named Hostaqua, the King whereof being Hostaqua a 

 desirous of my friendship, sent unto mee a quiver made village. 

 of a Luserns skinne full of arrowes, a couple of bowes, 

 foure or ivv^ skinnes painted after their maner, and a 

 cheine of Silver weying about a pounde weight. In 



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