A.D. 

 1565. 



Potanou accom- 

 panied with 

 two thousand 

 Indians. 



The prediction 

 of the Ma- 

 gician found 

 true. 



[Ill- 34>.] 



Utina hath 1 8 

 or 20 kings to 

 his Vassals. 



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beholde, and used certeine words ; which being ended, 

 he sayd unto his king, that it was not best to passe 

 any further, and that Potanou accompanied with two 

 thousand Indians at the least stayed in such and such 

 a place for him, to bidde him battell : and besides this, 

 that all the sayd Indians were furnished with cords to 

 binde the prisoners which they made full account to 

 take. 



This relation caused Utina to be unwilling to passe any 

 further : whereupon my Lieutenant being as angry as 

 ever he might be, because hee had taken so great paines 

 without doing of any thing of account, sayd unto him, 

 that hee would never thinke well of him nor of his 

 people, if hee would not hazzard himselfe : and that if he 

 would not doe it, at the least, that he would give him a 

 guide to conduct him and his small company to the 

 place where the enemies were encamped. Heereupon 

 Utina was ashamed, and seeing the good affection of 

 Monsieur de Ottigny determined to go forward : and 

 he failed not to finde his enemies in the very place 

 which the Magician had named: where the skirmish 

 beganne, which lasted three long houres : wherein with- 

 out doubt Utina had beene defeated, unlesse our harque- 

 busiers had not borne the burthen and brunt of all the 

 battell, and slaine a great number of the souldiers of 

 Potanou, upon which occasion they were put to flight. 

 Wherewithall Utina being content for the present, caused 

 his people to retire and returne homeward to the great 

 discontentment of Monsieur de Ottigny, which desired 

 nothing more, then to pursue his victorie. After he 

 was come home to his house he sent messengers to 

 eighteene or twentie villages of other kings his vassals, 

 and summoned them to be present at the feasts and 

 dances which he purposed to celebrate because of his 

 victorie. In the meane while Monsieur de Ottigny re- 

 freshed himselfe for two dayes : and then taking his leave 

 of the Paracoussi, and leaving him twelve of his men 

 to see that Potanou, bethinking himselfe of his late losse, 



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