A.D. 

 1565. 

 [III. 352.] 



Five Indian 

 kings. 



The mountains 

 of Jpaiatcy 

 wherein are 

 mines of 

 perfect gold, 



Sieroa Pira 

 red mettalL 



Perfect gold. 



Good meanes 

 to avoid the 

 danger of fire. 



September 4. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



among whom there were some that he had not yet 

 forgotten. The kings Homoloa, Serauahi, Alimacani, 

 Malica, and Casti came to visit him and welcome him 

 with divers gifts according to their manner. I advertised 

 them that hee was sent thither by the king of France, 

 to remaine there in my roome, and that I was sent for. 

 Then they demanded and prayed him, if it might stand 

 with his good pleasure, to cause the merchandise that hee 

 had brought with him to be delivered them, and that in 

 fewe daies they would bring him to the mountaines of 

 Apalatcy, whither they had promised to conduct me, and 

 that in case they performed not their promise, that they 

 were content to be cut in pieces. In those mountaines, 

 as they sayd, is found redde copper, which they call in 

 their language Sieroa Pira, which is as much to say as 

 red mettall, whereof I had a piece, which at the very 

 instant I shewed to Captaine Ribault, which caused his 

 gold-finer to make an assay thereof, which reported 

 unto him that it was perfect golde. About the time 

 of these conferences, commings and goings of the kings 

 of the countrey, being weakened with my former travaile, 

 and fallen into a melancholy upon the false reports that 

 had bene made of mee, I fell into a great continuall fever, 

 which held me eight or nine dayes : during which time 

 Captaine Ribault caused his victuals to be brought on 

 shore, and bestowed the most part thereof in the house 

 which my Lieutenant had built about two hundred 

 pases without the forte : which hee did to the ende 

 they might bee the better defended from the weather, 

 and likewise to the intent that the meale might bee 

 neerer to the bake-house, which I had built of purpose 

 in that place, the better to avoide the danger of the 

 fire, as I sayd before. But loe howe oftentimes mis- 

 fortune doth search and pursue us, even then when 

 we thinke to be at rest ! loe see what happened after 

 that captaine Ribault had brought up three of his small 

 ships into the river, which was the fourth of September ! 

 Sixe great Spanish ships arrived in the rode, where four 



