RENE LAUDONNIERE a.d. 



1565. 



was entred into their village, and had set all on fire. 



They prayed me that I would succour them : never- The deepe dls- 



thelesse in the meane while they had one part of their semblingofthe 



troope in ambush, with intent to set upon me if I ^^^^^^^• 



had come on land, which was easie for mee to dis- 



cerne. For seeing that I refused so to doe, they 



greatly doubted that they were discovered, and sought 



by all meanes to remoove out of my minde that evill 



opinion which I had conceived of them. They brought 



mee therefore fish in their little boates and of their 



meale of Mast, they made also of their drinke which 



they call cassine, which they sent to Utina and me. 



Now albeit I had gotten this point of them that I 

 held their king prisoner, yet neverthelesse I could not 

 get any great quantitie of victuals for the present : the 

 reason was, because they thought that after I had drawen 

 victuals from them, I would put their king to death. 

 For they measured my will according to their custome, The Indians 

 whereby they put to death all the men prisoners that kill all the men 

 they take in warre. And thus being out of all hope of ^]^'''^^^'^ f/' 

 his libertie, they assembled themselves in the great house, ,^arre. 

 and having called all the people together they proposed 

 the election of a new King, at which time the Father The election 

 in lawe of Utina set one of the kings young sonnes rf^ ^^'^ king. 

 upon the Royall throne : and tooke such paynes that 

 every man did him homage by the major part of the 

 voyces. This election had like to have bene the cause 

 of great troubles among them. For there was a kins- 

 man of the kings neere adjoyning, which pretended a 

 Title to the kingdome, and in deede he had gotten one 

 part of the subjects: notwithstanding this enterprise could 

 not take effect, forasmuch as by a common consent of 

 the chiefe, it was consulted and concluded, that the sonne 

 was more meete to succeede the Father then any other. 

 Now all this while I kept Utina with me, to whom I 

 had given some of mine apparell to cloth him, as I had 

 likewise done unto his sonne. But his subjects which 

 before had an opinion that I would have killed him, 

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