A.D. 

 1565. 



The arrival 

 ofCaptaine 

 Johi Rtbault 

 at the Fort 

 the 28 of 

 August 1565. 



"Note. 



[III. 350.] 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Ings, and that I would leave them a boate to ayde 

 them withall in their warre against their enemies. 

 Which I made as though I would grant unto them, 

 to the end I might alwaies remaine their friend until 

 my last departure. 



The third voyage of the Frenchmen made by 

 Captaine John Ribault unto Florida. 



S I was thus occupied in these conferences, 

 the winde and the tide served well to set 

 sayle, which was the eight and twentieth 

 of August, at which instant Captaine 

 Vasseur which commanded in one of 

 my shippes, and Captaine Verdier 

 which was chiefe in the other, now 

 ready to goe foorth, began to descry certaine sayles at 

 sea, whereof they advertised mee with diligence : where- 

 upon I appointed to arme foorth a boate in good order 

 to goe to discrie and know what they were. 1 sent also 

 to the Centinels, which I caused to be kept on a little 

 knappe, to cause certaine men to climbe up to the 

 toppe of the highest trees the better to discover them. 

 They descried the great boate of the shippes, which as 

 yet they could not perfectly discerne, which as farre as 

 they could judge, seemed to chase my boate, which by 

 this time was passed the barre of the river : so that 

 we could not possibly judge whether they were enemies 

 which would have caried her away with them : for 

 it was too great a ken to judge the trueth thereof. 

 Upon this doubt I put my men in order and in such 

 array as though they had beene enemies : and indeede I 

 had great occasion to mistrust the same : for my boate 

 came unto their ship about two of the clocke in the 

 afternoone, and sent me no newes all that day long to 

 put me out of doubt who they should be. The next 

 day in the morning about eight or nine of the clocke 1 

 saw seven boates (among which mine owne was one) full 

 of souldiers enter into the river, having every man his 



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