A.D. 

 1565. 



The hatred 

 among the Sa- 

 vage kings of 

 Florida. 



Note. 



[III. 3+4.] 



Note. 



Rootes. 



Esquine. 



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being advertised of the good entertainment which I used 

 towards him, sent two men which walked along the river, 

 and came to visite him, and brought us some victuals. 

 These two men at their comming were received by me 

 with all courtesie, and entertained according to the victuals 

 which I had. While these things thus passed, there 

 arrived from all quarters many Savages of the countries 

 adjoyning, which came to see Utina, and sought by all 

 meanes to perswade me to put him to death, offering 

 that if I would do so, they would take order that 1 

 should want no victuals. There was also a King my 

 neighbour whose name was Saturioua, a subtill and craftie 

 man, and one that shewed by proofe that he was greatly 

 practised in affaires. The King sent ordinarily messengers 

 unto me, to pray me to deliver Utina unto him : and 

 to win me the more easily, he sent twise seven or eight 

 baskets of Maiz or of Mast, thinking by this way to 

 allure me, & to make me come to composition with him : 

 in the end notwithstanding when he saw he lost his 

 time, he ceased to visite me with ambassages & victuals : 

 & in the meane while I was not able with ye same store 

 of victuals which I had, so well to proportion out the 

 travaile upon the ships which we built to returne into 

 France, but that in the end we were constrained to 

 indure extreme famine, which continued among us 

 all the moneth of May ; for in this latter season, 

 neither Maiz nor Beanes, nor Mast was to be found 

 in the villages, because they had employed all for to 

 sowe their fields, insomuch that we were constrayned to 

 eate rootes, which the most part of our men punned 

 in the morters which I had brought with me to beate 

 gunnepowder in, and the graine which came to us from 

 other places : some tooke the wood of Esquine, beate 

 it, and made meale thereof, which they boyled with 

 water, and eate it : others went with their harquebusies 

 to seeke to kill some foule. Yea this miserie was so 

 great, that one was found that gathered up among the 

 filth of my house, all the fish bones that he could finde, 



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