A.D. 



1565. 



Utina taken 

 prisoner in his 

 village by 

 Laudonniere 

 and 50 of his 

 soldiers. 



Five or sixe 

 hundred In- 

 dians. 



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that they make of us. Shall it not be lawfull for us to 

 punish them for the wrongs which they doe unto us, 

 besides that we know apparantly how little they respect 

 us ? Is not this sufficient although there were no 

 necessitie at all, since they thus delude us, and have 

 broken promise with us ? After I had therefore resolved 

 with them to seaze on the person of Utina, which 

 besides that he had given us occasion hereof, was also 

 most able to help us to recover victuals, I departed 

 with fiftie of my best souldiers all embarked in two 

 Barkes & we arrived in the dominions of Utina, distant 

 from our Fort about 40 or 50 leagues : then going on 

 shore we drew towards his village situated 6 great 

 leagues from the river, where we tooke him prisoner, 

 howbeit not without great cries and alarmes, and led 

 him away in our barkes, having first signified unto 

 his Father in law and his chiefe subjects, that in that 

 I had taken him, it was not for any desire that I 

 had to doe him any harme, but onely to relieve my 

 necessitie and want of victuals which oppressed me, 

 and that in case they would helpe me to some, I 

 would find meanes to set him againe at libertie : that 

 in the meane space I would retire my selfe into my 

 Barkes (for I feared least they would there assemble 

 themselves together, and that some mischiefe might 

 thereof insue) where I would stay for him two dayes 

 to receive his answere : notwithstanding that my mean- 

 ing was not to have any thing without exchange of 

 marchandise. This they promised they would doe. 

 And in very deede the very same evening, his wife 

 accompanied with all the women of the village came 

 unto the Rivers brinke, and cryed unto me to enter 

 into the barke, to see her husband and her sonne, 

 which I held both prisoners. I discovered the next 

 day five or sixe hundred Indian archers, which drew 

 neere unto the river side, and came to me to 

 signifie unto me how that during the absence of their 

 king, their enemie Potanou, being thereof advertised, 



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