DOMINIQUE DE GOURGUES ad. 



1568. 

 the Spanyardes, to have feasted the French at the first 

 assault, thus blowing up the store house, and the other 

 houses buylt of Pine trees. The rest of the Spaniards 

 being led away prisoners with the others, after that the 

 Generall had shewed them the wrong which they had 

 done without occasion to all the French Nation, were all 

 hanged on the boughes of the same trees, whereon the 

 French hung : of which number five were hanged by 

 one Spaniard, which perceiving himselfe in the like 

 miserable estate, confessed his fault, and the just judge- 

 ment which God had brought upon him. But in stead 

 of the writing which Pedro Melendes had hanged over The writings 

 them, importing these wordes in Spanish, I doe not this hanged over 

 as unto French men, but as unto Lutherans, Gourgues ^^^ Laniards 

 caused to be imprinted with a searing iron in a table of ^lame in 

 Firrewood, I doe not this as unto Spaniardes, nor as unto Florida.- 

 Mariners, but as unto Traitors, Robbers, and Murtherers. 

 Afterward considering he had not men inough to keepe 

 his Forts which he had wonne, much lesse to store 

 them, fearing also lest the Spaniard which hath Dominions 

 neere adjoyning should renew his forces, or the Savages 

 should prevaile against the French men, unlesse his 

 Majestie would send thither, hee resolved to raze them. 

 And indeede, after he had assembled, and in the ende 

 perswaded all the Savage kings so to doe, they caused [HI. 3^0-] 

 their subjects to runne thither with such affection, that 

 they overthrew all the three Forts flatte even with the The three 

 ground in one day. This done by Gourgues, that hee "^^"^ ^^"^^ ' 

 might returne to his Shippes which were left in the River 

 of Seyne called Tacatacourou, fifteene leagues distant 

 from thence, he sent Cazenove and the artillery by water : 

 afterward with fourescore harquebusiers, armed with 

 corslets, and matches light, followed with fortie Mariners 

 bearing pikes, by reason of the small confidence he was 

 to have in so many Savages, he marched by land alwayes 



in battell ray, findinsr the waves covered with Savag^es, ^^'^^^ honour 



, . , -^'i o , . y, ^ 1 ^ ' done h the 



which came to honour him with presents and prayses, as ^^^^^^^ ^^ 



the deliverer of all the countries round about adjoyning. Gourgues. 



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