A.D. 

 1565. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



in charge, and informe him of all things you have 

 discovered. And in a postscript of the letter was thus 

 written. Thinke not, that whereas I send for you, it 

 is for any evill opinion or mistrust that I have of you, 

 but that it is for your good and for your credit, and 

 assure your selfe that during my life you shall find me 

 your orood Master. ^ 



HASTILLON. 



Jccusations 

 against him. 



2. 



Laudonnieres 

 answer e therC' 

 unto. 



Now after I had long discoursed with Captaine Ribault, 

 Captaine la Grange accosted mee, and told me of an 

 infinite number of false reports which had bene made of 

 mee to my great hinderance : and among other things 

 he informed me, that my Lord Admirall tooke it very 

 evill that I had caried a woman with mee : likewise that 

 some bodie had tolde him that I went about to counter- 

 s' feit the King, and to play the tyrant : that I was too 



4- cruell unto the men that went with mee : that I sought 

 to be advanced by other meanes then by my Lord 



5- Admirall : and that I had written to many Lords of the 

 Court, which I ought not to have done. Whereunto 

 I answered, that the woman was a poore chambermayd, 

 which I had taken up in an Inne, to oversee my hous- 

 hold businesse, to looke to an infinite sort of divers 

 beasts, as sheepe and poultrie which I caried over with 

 me to store the countrey withall : that it was not meete 

 to put a man to attend this businesse : likewise, consider- 

 ing the length of the time that I was to abide there, mee 

 thought it should not offend any body to take a woman 

 with me, aswell to help my souldiers in their sickenesses, 

 as in mine owne, whereinto I fell afterward. And how 

 necessary her service was for us, ech one at that time 

 might easily perceive : That all my men thought so well 

 of her, that at one instant there were sixe or seven 

 which did demand her of me in mariage ; as in very 



2. deede one of them had her after our returne. Touching 

 that which was sayd that I playd the King, these reports 

 were made, because I would not beare with any thing 

 which was against the duety of my charge, and the 



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