A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1565. 



men honourably apparelled, yet unarmed. He sent for 

 great store of bread and wine, to distribute thereof to 

 every one : On my part I made him the best cheere 

 ^heepe and \ could possibly, and caused certaine sheepe and poultry 

 poultrie caned ^^ ^^ killed, which untill this present I had carefully 

 preserved hoping to store the countrey withall. For 

 notwithstanding all the necessities and sicknesse that 

 happened unto me, I would not suffer so much as 

 one chicken to be killed : by which meanes in a short 

 time I had gathered together above an hundred pullets. 

 Nowe three dayes passed, while the English General 

 remained with me, during which time the Indians came 

 in from all parts to see him, and asked me whether he 

 An advantage were my brother : I tolde them he was so, and signified 

 wisely taken, ^^^q them, that he was come to see me and ayde me 

 with so great store of victuals, that from thence for- 

 ward I should have no neede to take any thing of 

 them. The bruite hereof incontinently was spread over 

 all the countrey, in such sort as Ambassadours came 

 unto me from all parts, which on the behalfe of the 

 kings their masters desired to make alliance with me: 

 and even they, which before sought to make warre 

 against me, came to offer their friendship and service 

 unto me : Whereupon I received them and gratified 

 them with certaine presents. The General immediately 

 understood the desire & urgent occasion which I had to 

 returne into France : whereupon he offred to transport 

 me and all my company home : whereunto notwithstand- 

 ing I would not agree, being in doubt upon what occasion 

 he made so large an offer. For I knewe not how the 

 case stood betweene the French and the English : and 

 although hee promised me on his faith to put mee on 

 The French land in France, before hee would touch in England, yet 

 mistrusted that j stood in doubt least he would attempt somewhat in 

 mlnuwu/d' Florida in the name of his mistresse. Wherfore I flatly 

 plant in refused his offer : whereupon there arose a great mutinie 



Florida. among my souldiers, which sayd that I sought to destroy 



them all, and that the Brigandine, wherof I spake before, 



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