NICHOLAS BURGOIGNON 



wages at all of him, if he will give them leave to discover 

 this citie, and the rich mountaines, and the passage to a 

 sea or mighty Lake which they heare to be within foure 

 and twenty dayes travel from Saint Helena, which is in 

 32. degrees of latitude : and is that river which the 

 French called Port-royal. 



He saith also that he hath scene a rich Diamond which 

 was brought from the mountaines that lye up in the 

 countrey Westward from S. Helena. These hils seeme 

 wholy to be the mountaines of Apalatci, whereof the 

 Savages advertised Laudonniere, and it may bee they 

 are the hils of Chaunis Temoatam, which Master Lane 

 had advertisement of. 



The relation of Nicholas Burgoignon, alias Holy, 

 v^hom sir Francis Drake brought from Saint 

 Augustine also in Florida, where he had re- 

 mayned sixe yeeres, in mine and Master 

 Heriots hearing. 



His Nicholas Burgoignon sayth, that 

 betweene S. Augustine and S. Helen 

 there is a Casique whose name is 

 Casicola, which is lord of ten thou- 

 sand Indians, and another casique whose 

 name is Dicasca, and another called 

 Touppekyn toward the North, and a 

 fourth named Potanou toward the South, and another 

 called Moscita toward the South likewise. Besides these 

 he acknowledgeth Oristou, Ahoia, Ahoiaue, Isamacon, 

 alledged by the Spaniard. 



He further affirmeth, that there is a citie Northwest- 

 ward from S. Helenes in the mountaines, which the 

 Spaniards call La grand Copal, and is very great and 

 rich, and that in these mountains there is great store 

 of Christal, golde, and Rubies, and Diamonds : And 

 that a Spaniard brought from thence a Diamond which 

 was worth five thousand crownes, which Pedro Melendes 



A.D. 



1586. 



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