A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1565. 



Gold y together a certaine quantity of golde and silver, and 



silver. purposing to returne unto me, he prayed the king of 



the village to lend him a canoa (which is a vessell made 

 of one whole piece of wood, which the Indians use to 

 fish withal, and to row upon the rivers) which this lord 

 of Edelano granted him. But being greedy of the 

 riches which he had, he commanded two Indians, which 

 he had charged to conduct him in the canoa, to murder 

 him & bring him the merchandise and the gold which 

 he had. Which the two traitours villanously executed : 

 for they knockt him on the head with an hatchet, as 

 he was blowing of the fire in the canoa to seethe fish. 

 Ut'ina sendeth The Paracoussy Utina sent certeine dayes afterward, to 

 ioLaudonniere pj-^y. j^^ ^-q \qx\^ him a dozen or fifteene of my shot, to 

 jor .IS epe. \^y^^^ his enemy Potanou, and sent me word, that this 

 enemy once vanquished, he would make me passage, yea, 

 and would conduct me unto the mountaines in such 

 sort, that no man should be able to hinder me. Then 

 I assembled my men to demand their advice, as I was 

 A good note, woont to do in all mine enterprises. The greater part 

 was of opinion, that I should do well to send succour 

 unto this Paracoussy, because it would be hard for me 

 to discover any further up into the countrey without his 

 helpe : and that the Spanyards when they were imployed 

 in their conquests, did alwayes enter into alliance with 

 some one king to ruine another. Notwithstanding, 

 because I did alwayes mistrust the Indians, and that 

 the more after the last advertisement that the Spanyards 

 had given me, I doubted lest the small number which 

 Utina demanded might incurre some danger ; wherefore 

 I sent him thirty shot under the charge of my Lieutenant 

 Ottigny, which stayed not above two dayes with Utina, 

 while he prepared victuals for his voyage, which ordinarily 

 and according to the custome of the countrey are caried 

 by women and yoong boyes, and by hermaphrodites. 

 Three hundred Utina setting forward with three hundred of his subjects, 

 Indians. having ech of them their bowe and quiver full of arrowes, 



caused our thirty shot to be placed in the foreward, and 



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