RENE LAUDONNIERE a.d. 



1565. 

 how true his judgements are, and that he never suffereth 

 so foule a fault to escape unpunished. 



After that I had used unto them these or the like 

 speeches, following that which wee had agreed upon in 

 councellj in respect of the crimes which they had com- 

 mitted, aswel against the kings Majesty as against mee 

 which was their Captaine, I commanded that they should The sentence 

 be hanged. Seeing therefore that there was no starting of death. 

 hole, nor meanes at all to save themselves from this 

 arrest, they tooke themselves unto their prayers : yet one 

 of the foure, thinking to raise a mutiny among my 

 souldiers, sayd thus unto them : What, brethren and 

 companions, will you suffer us to die so shamefully ? 

 And taking the word out of his mouth, I sayd unto him, 

 that they were not companions of authours of sedition and 

 rebels unto the kings service. Heereupon the souldiers 

 besought me not to hang them, but rather let them be 

 shot thorow, & then afterward, if I thought good, their 

 bodies might be hanged upon certaine gibbets along the 

 havens mouth : which I caused presently to be put in 

 execution. Loe here what was the end of my mutinous Execution. 

 souldiers, without which I had alwayes lived peaceably, 

 and enjoyed the good desire which I had to make an 

 happy and quiet voyage. But because 1 have spoken 

 of nothing but their accidentes and adventures which 

 happened unto them after their departure, without mak- 

 ing any mention of our fort, I will returne to the matters 

 from which I digressed, to declare that which fell out after 

 their departure. First I began to consider to the end I [III. 337-] 

 might confirme and make my selfe more constant in mine ^,^^ conttnua- 

 affliction, that these murmurers could not ground their ^^^^^ 

 sedition upon want of victuals : for from the time of our 

 arrivall, every souldier dayly unto this day, and besides 

 untill the eight and twentieth of February, had a loafe of 

 bread weighing two and twenty ounces. Againe I re- 

 counted with my selfe that all new conquests by sea or by ^^? conquests 

 land are ordinarily troubled with rebellions, which are ^^Ji^l^s °a?id~ 

 easie to be raised, aswell in respect of the distance of mutinies. 



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