A.D. 

 1568. 



The savages 

 great swim- 

 mers. 



The Spaniards 

 of the second 

 Fort all slaine. 



Note. 



A notable 



Spanish 



subtiltie. 



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the bark, lept al into the water holding up their bowes 

 & arrowes in one hand, & swimming with the other, so 

 that the Spaniards seing both ye shores covered with so 

 great a number of men, thought to flee towards the 

 woods : but being charged by the French, and afterward 

 repulsed by the Savages, toward whom they would have 

 retired, they were sooner then they would bereft of 

 their lives. To conclude they al there ended their 

 dayes saving 15 of those which were reserved to be 

 executed for the example of others. Wherupon 

 Captaine Gourgues having caused al that he found 

 in the second fort to be transported unto the first, 

 where he ment to strengthen himselfe to take resolu- 

 tion against the great Fort, the state whereof hee did 

 not understand : in fine a Sergeant of a band one of 

 the prisoners assured him that they might be there very 

 neere 300 wel furnished under a brave Governor, which 

 had fortified there, attending farther succours. Thus 

 having obtained of him the platforme, the height, the 

 fortification and passages unto it, and having prepared 

 eight good lathers, and raised all the Countrey against 

 the Spanyard, that he neither might have newes, nor 

 succours, nor retract on any side, he determined to march 

 forward. In the meane while the Governour sent a 

 Spanyard disguised like a Savage to spie out the state of 

 the French. And though he were discovered by Oloto- 

 cara, yet he used all the cunning he could possibly to 

 perswade them that he was one of the second fort, out of 

 which having escaped, and seeing none but savages on 

 every side, he hoped more in ye Frenchmens then their 

 mercy, unto whom he came to yeeld himself disguised 

 like a savage, for feare lest if he should have bin knowen, 

 he should have bin massacred by those Barbarians : but 

 the spie being brought face to face with the sergeant of 

 the band, & convicted to be one of the great fort, was 

 reserved until an other time : after that he had assured 

 Gourgues that the bruit was that he had 2000 

 Frenchmen with him for feare of whom the 200 and 



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