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sail from Havre de Grace for the Land of Florida, did an artist 

 accompany an expedition for the definite purpose of making drawings 

 to be taken back to Europe. Consequently Jacques Lenioyne de 

 Morgues, artist, who accompanied Laudonniere, made the earliest 

 known pictures of Indians of North America. Many sketches were 

 undoubtedly made by the artist during the eventful year he remained 

 in Florida but only one original example of his work can now be 

 traced, this being a drawing of the great chief Saturioua who claimed 

 the land on which the French erected Fort Carolina. 



JACQUES LEMOYNE DE AIORGUES 



Very little is known of the life and career of the artist who ac- 

 companied Laudonniere to Florida. He appears to have been a man 

 of culture and learning. He was a Huguenot and seems to have been 

 known personally by Charles IX. He prepared a brief Narrative of 

 events in Florida which was printed by Theodoro de Bry, in the year 

 1 59 1, as the second part of Grand Voyages. Together with this text 

 were the engraved reproductions of 42 drawings made by Lemoyne 

 revealing scenes in Florida, the natives, their habitations, and events 

 of interest.^ To quote from the English translation of Lemoyne : 



" Charles IX, King of France, having been notified by the Admiral 

 de Chatillon that there was too much delay in sending forward the 

 re-enforcements needed by the small body of French whom Jean 

 Riband had left to maintain the French dominion in Florida, gave 

 orders to the admiral to fit out such a fleet as was required for the 

 purpose. The admiral, in the mean while, recommended to the king a 

 nobleman of the name of Renaud de Laudonniere ; a person well 

 known at court, and of varied abilities, though experienced not so 

 much in military as in naval afifairs. The king accordingly appointed 

 him his own lieutenant, and appropriated for the expedition the sum 

 of a hundred thousand francs." The Narrative continues : " I also 

 received orders to join the expedition, and to report to M. de Laudon- 

 niere .... I asked for some positive statements of his own views, 

 and of the particular object which the king desired to obtain in coni- 



^ Two works have been quoted in preparing these notes : 



a. History of the First Attempt of the French to Colonize the Newly 

 Discovered Country of Florida. By Rene Laudonniere. In His- 

 torical Collections of Louisiana and Florida. By B. F. French. New 

 York, 1869. 



h. Narrative of Le Moyne, an Artist who accompanied the French 

 Expedition to Florida under Laudonniere, 1564. Translated from 

 the Latin of De Bry. Boston, 1875. 



