A.D. 

 1565. 



Twentie 

 hogsheads of 

 wine made in 

 Florida^ like 

 to the wine of 

 Orleans. 



Labourers 

 Jiecessary to 

 inhabit new 

 countreys. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



we spared them one of our barks of fifty tun. Not- 

 withstanding the great want that the Frenchmen had, the 

 ground doth yeeld victuals sufficient, if they would have 

 taken paines to get the same ; but they being souldiers, 

 desired to live by the sweat of other mens browes : 

 for while they had peace with the Floridians, they had 

 fish sufficient, by weares which they made to catch the 

 same : but when they grew to warres, the Floridians 

 tooke away the same againe, and then would not the 

 Frenchmen take the paines to make any more. The 

 ground yeeldeth naturally grapes in great store, for in 

 the time that the Frenchmen were there, they made 20 

 hogsheads of wine. Also it yeeldeth roots passing good, 

 Deere marvellous store, with divers other beasts, and 

 fowle, serviceable to the use of man. These be things 

 wherewith a man may live, having corne or maiz where- 

 with to make bread : for maiz maketh good savory 

 bread, and cakes as fine as flowre. Also it maketh good 

 meale, beaten and sodden with water, and eateth like 

 pap wherewith we feed children. It maketh also good 

 beverage, sodden in water, and nourishable ; which the 

 Frenchmen did use to drinke of in the morning, and it 

 assuageth their thirst, so that they had no need to drinke 

 all the day after. And this maiz was the greatest lacke 

 they had, because they had no labourers to sowe the same, 

 and therfore to them that should inhabit the land it were 

 requisit to have labourers to till and sowe the ground : for 

 they having victuals of their owne, whereby they neither 

 rob nor spoile the inhabitants, may live not onely quietly 

 with them, who naturally are more desirous of peace then 

 of warres, but also shall have abundance of victuals 

 profered them for nothing : for it is with them as it is 

 with one of us, when we see another man ever taking away 

 from us, although we have enough besides, yet then 

 we thinke all too little for our selves : for surely we 

 have heard the Frenchmen report, and I know it by 

 the Indians, that a very little contenteth them : for the 

 Indians with the head of maiz rosted, will travell a whole 



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