DOMINIQUE DE GOURGUES a.d. 



1568. 



they were passed over, with a French courage they 



prepared themselves to the assault on the Sunday eve 



next after Easter day, in Aprill 1568. Insomuch that 



Gourgues to employ the ardent heat of this good 



affection, gave twenty shot to his Lieutenant Cazenove, 



and ten Mariners laden with pots and balles of wild 



fire to burne the gate : and then he assaulted the Fort ^^^ assault 



on another side, after he had made a short speech unto Vt r 1% . 

 1 . r 1 1 • 1 1 o 1 the first Fort. 



nis men or the strange treasons which the opanyards 



had plaid their companions. But being discried as they 

 came holding downe their heads within two hundred 

 paces from the Fort, the Gunner being upon the terrace 

 of the Fort, after he had cried, Arme, Arme, these be 

 French men, discharged twise upon them a colverine, 

 whereon the Armes of France were graven, which had 

 bin taken from Laudonniere. But as he went about to 

 charge it the third time, Olotocara, which had not ^^^ ^^^^^'^ ^/ 

 learned to keepe his ranke, or rather moved with rage, °^°'^^^^' 

 lept on the platforme, and thrust him through the 

 bodie with his pike and slew him. Whereupon Gour- 

 gues advanced forward, and after he had heard Cazenove 

 cry, that the Spaniards which issued out armed at the 

 cry of the alarme, were fled, hee drew to that part, and 

 so hemmed them in betweene him and his Lieutenant, 

 that of threescore there escaped not a man, saving only 

 fifteene reserved unto the same death which they had 

 put the French unto. The Spanyards of the other fort 

 in the meanewhile ceased not to play with their ordin- 

 ance, which much annoied the assailants : although to 

 answere them they had by this placed and oftentimes 

 pointed the foure pieces found in the first Fort. Where- ^^^ assault 

 upon Gourp^ues beingf accompanied with fourescore shot ^^^^^^^^Sjf 



D or ^ /^^ second tort, 



went abord the barke which met him there to good 

 purpose to passe into the wood neere unto the Fort, out 

 of which he supposed the Spanyards would issue to save 

 themselves thorow the benefit of the woods in the great 

 fort, which was not past one league distant from ye same. 

 Afterward the Savages not staying for the returne of 



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