cause of this 

 enterprise. 



RENE LAUDONNIERE ad. 



1565. 

 in was the nephew of the Treasurer le Beau. After we 

 were al come to the ships, I comforted them as well as 

 I could, and sent back the boat againe with speed to 

 see if they could find yet any more. Upon her returne, 

 the Mariners told mee how that captaine James Ribault 

 which was in his ship about two muskets shot distant 

 from the fort, had parled with the Spaniards, and that 

 Francis Jean came unto his ship, where hee staied a 'Francis Jean 

 long space, whereat they greatly marveiled, considering 

 hee was the cause of this enterprise, how hee would let 

 him escape. After I was come into the ship called the 

 Greyhound, captaine James Ribault & captaine Valvot 

 came to see me : and there we concluded to returne 

 into France. Now forasmuch as I found the ship un- 

 furnished of Captaine, Pilot, Master, and Masters-mate, 

 I gave advice to choose out one of the most able men 

 among al the mariners, & that by their owne voices. I 

 tooke also sixe men out of another small ship, which we 

 had sunke because it wanted ballast and could not be 

 saved. Thus I increased the furniture of the ship 

 wherein I was my selfe embarked, and made one, which 

 had bene Masters-mate in the foresaid small ship, 

 Master of mine. And because I lacked a pilot, I Thebaddeal- 

 prayed James Ribault that he would grant me one of ^^j{Jif^^^^ 

 the foure men that he had in his ship, which I should 

 name unto him, to serve me for a Pilot : he promised to 

 give me them, which neverthelesse he did not at the in- 

 stant when wee were ready to depart, notwithstanding all 

 the speech I used to him, in declaring that it was for the 

 kings service. I was constrained to leave the ship behind 

 me which I had bought of the English Captaine, because 

 I wanted men to bring her away. For captaine James 

 Ribault had taken away her furniture : I tooke away her 

 ordinance onely, which was all dismounted, whereof I 

 gave nine pieces to James Ribault to carrie into France, Our returne 

 the other five I put into my ship. The 25 of Sep- ^^1^ France 

 tember wee set sailes to returne into France, and ^Ltember 

 Captaine James Ribault and I kept company all that 1565. 

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