A.D. 

 1565. 



The causes zuhy 

 the French 

 lost Florida. 



The French 

 Fleete cast 

 azuay on the 

 coast of 

 Florida. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



were there present. I will plainly say one thing, That 

 the long delay that Captaine John Ribault used in his 

 embarking, and the 15. daies that he spent in roving 

 along the coast of Florida, before he came to our fort 

 Caroline, were the cause of the losse that we susteined. 

 For he discovered the coast the 14 of August, and 

 spent the time in going from river to river, which had 

 bene sufficient for him to have discharged his ships in, 

 and for me to have embarked my selfe to returne into 

 France. I wote well that al that he did was upon a good 

 intent : yet in mine opinion he should have had more 

 regard unto his charge, then to the devises of his owne 

 braine, which sometimes hee printed in his head so deeply, 

 that it was very hard to put them out : which also turned 

 to his utter undoing : for hee was no sooner departed 

 from us, but a tempest tooke him, which in fine wrackt 

 him upon the coast, where all his shippes were cast 

 away, and he with much adoe escaped drowning, to fall 

 into their hands which cruelly massacred him and all 

 his company. 



The fourth voyage of the Frenchmen into Florida, 

 under the conduct of Captaine Gourgues, in 

 the yeere, 1567. 



Aptaine Gourgues a Gentleman borne in 

 the Countrey neere unto Bourdeaux 

 incited with a desire of revenge, to 

 repaire the honour of his nation, bor- 

 owed of his friends and sold ipart of 

 his owne goods to set forth and furnish 

 three ships of indifferent burthen with 



all things necessary, having in them an hundred and 

 fiftie souldiers, and fourescore chosen Mariners under 

 Captaine Cazenove his lieutenant, and Francis Bourdelois 

 Master over the Mariners. He set forth the 22 of 

 August 1567. And having endured contrary winds and 

 stormes for a season, at length hee arrived and went 



