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others consideration to imagine whether Captaine Ribault 

 woulde have left them with me to have borrowed my 

 men, if they had bene such. Those that were left me of 

 mine owne company were about sixeteene or seventeene 

 that coulde beare armes, and all of them poore and leane : 

 the reste were sicke and maymed in the conflict which 

 my Lieutenant had against Utina. This view being 

 thus taken, wee set our watches, whereof wee made two 

 Centinels, that the souldiers might have one night free. 

 Then wee bethought our selves of those which might 

 bee most sufficient, among whome wee chose two, one 

 of whom was named Monsieur Saint Cler, and the other 

 Monsieur de la Vigne, to whom we delivered candles 

 and Lanterns to goe round about the fort to viewe the 

 watch, because of the foule and foggie weather. I 

 delivered them also a sandglasse or clocke, that the 

 Centinels might not be troubled more one then another. 

 In the meane while I ceased not, for all the foule weather 

 nor my sicknesse which I had, to oversee the Corps de 

 garde. The night betweene the nineteenth and twentieth 

 of September La Vigne kept watch with his company, 

 wherein he used all endevour, although it rayned without 

 ceasing. When the day was therefore come, and that 

 hee saw that it rayned still worse then it did before, hee 

 pitied the Centinels so too moyled and wette : and 

 thinking the Spanyardes woulde not have come in such 

 a strange time, hee let them depart, and to say the 

 trueth, hee went himselfe unto his lodging. In the 

 meane while one which had something to doe without 

 the fort, and my trumpet which went up unto the 

 TheSpanyards rampart perceived a troupe of Spanyards which came 

 dtscryedthe 20 Jq^j-^^ from a little knappe. Where incontinently they 

 ' beganne to cry alarme, and the Trumpetter also : Which 

 assoone as ever I understoode, foorthwith I issued out, 

 with my target and sword in my hand, and gatte mee 

 into the middest of the Court, where I beganne to crie 

 upon my souldiers. Some of them which were of the 

 forward sort went toward the breach, which was on the 



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