DOMINIQUE DE GOURGUES ad. 



1567. 



themselves danslng and very jocond, with promise to 



keep all things secret, and to bring unto the sayd place 



good companies of their subjects all well armed to be 



avenged throughly on the Spanyards. In the meane 



space Gourgues very narrowly examined Peter de Bre ^^^^^^^^"^^ 



borne in Newhaven, which being but a yong stripling J^J^^^^ 



escaped out of the fort into the woods while the Span- ^^^^^j ^ith 



yards murdered the rest of the French, & was afterward Satourioua. 



brought up with Satourioua, which at that time bestowed 



him on our generall, whose advise stoode him in great 



steade : Whereupon he sent to discover the fort and the 



estate of the enemies by certaine of his men, being 



guided by Olotacara Satouriouaes nephew which hee had 



given him for this purpose and for assurance of Estampes 



a gentleman of Cominges, and others which he sent to 



discry the state of the enemies. Moreover he gave him Three pkdges 



a Sonne of his starke naked as all of them are, and his ^^J^^^Ii 



wife which he loved best of all the rest, of eighteene samrioua. 



yeeres olde, apparelled with the mosse of trees, which 



for 3 dayes space were in the ships, untill our men 



returned from discrying the state of the enemie, and the 



kings had furnished their preparation at their rende- 



vous. Their marching being concluded, and the Savages 



rende-vous being appointed them beyond the river 



Salinacani, of our men called Somme, they all dranke The riz^er of 



with great solemnitie their drinke called Cassine, made ^''\]''ff'\^ 

 o.. .11/1 ^^j called bomme 



of the juice of certame hearbs (as they are wont to do, j^^ the French. 



when they go to any place of danger,) which hath such 



force, that it taketh from them hunger and thirst for 



24 houres, and Gourgues was faine to make as though 



he drank thereof for company. Afterward they lift up 



their handes and sware all that they would never 



forsake him. Olotocara followed him with pike in hand. 



Being all met at the river of Sarauahi, not without great The river of 



trouble, by reason of the raine and places full of water S^^'^^^f^^- 



which they must needes passe, which hindred their passage, 



they were distressed with famine finding nothing by the 



way to eat, their Bark of provision being not arrived, 



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