AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1565. 



could, and determined to worke no more from thence- 



foorth upon the shippe, but to content our selves to 



repaire the Brigandine which I had. So we began to 



The heating beate downe all the houses that were without the Fort, 



toiues^tlthout ^"^ caused coles to be made of the timber thereof: 



the fort, i^ the likewise the souldiers beate downe the pallisade which 



Palisade. was toward the waters side, neither was I ever able 



to keepe them from doing it. I had also determined 



to beat downe the Fort before my departure and to 



set it on fire, for feare least some new-come guest 



should have enjoyed and possessed it. In the meane 



while there was none of us to whom it was not an 



extreme griefe to leave a countrey, wherein wee had 



endured so great travailes and necessities, to discover 



that which we must forsake through our owne countrey- 



The cause why mens default. For if wee had bene succoured in time 



the French lost ^ place, & according to the promise that was made 



unto us, the warre which was between us and Utina, 



had not fallen out, neither should wee have had 



occasion to offend the Indians, which with all paines 



in the world I entertained in good amitie, aswell with 



merchandise and apparel, as with promise of greater 



matters, and with whom I so behaved myself, that 



although sometimes I was constrained to take victuals 



in some few villages, yet I lost not the alliance of 



Eight kings eight Kings and Lords my neighbours, which continually 



fTndT^nJ succoured and ayded me with whatsoever they were able 



allies. to afford. Yea this was the principall scope of all my 



The principall purposes, to winne and entertaine them, knowing how 



scope of plan- greatly their amitie might advance our enterprise, and 



ters in strange pj-iiicipallv while I discovered the commodities of the 

 countrey s. r r J ir 1 • 



Florida a rich countrey, and sought to strengthen my selre therem. 



countrey. I leave it to your cogitation to thinke how neere it 



went to our hearts, to leave a place abounding in riches 



(as we were throughly enformed thereof) in comming 



whereunto, and doing service unto our Prince, we left 



our owne countrey, wives, children, parents, and friends, 



and passed the perils of the sea, and were therein 



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