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manding my services. Upon this he promised that no services except 

 honorable ones should l)e required of me ; and he informed me that 

 my special duty, when we should reach the Indies, would be to map the 

 seacoast, and lay down the position of towns, the depth and course of 

 rivers, and the harbors ; and to represent also the dwellings of the 

 natives, and whatever in the province might seem worthy of observa- 

 tion : all of which I performed to the best of my ability, as I showed 

 his majesty, w^hen, after having escaped from the remarkable perfidies 

 and atrocious cruelties of the Spaniards, I returned to France." 



The three vessels of the expedition sailed from Havre de Grace 

 April 20, 1564. Their first stop was at the Canaries, thence they 

 sailed to the West Indies. x\t one island, " called Dominica, we 

 watered. Making sail again, we reached the coast of Florida, or 

 New France as it is called, on Thursday, June 22'' They had arrived 

 ofif the mouth of the River of May, the present St. Johns. Soon 

 ascending the stream a few miles they selected a site where Fort 

 Carolina was erected. 



Lemoyne was in Fort Carolina September 20, 1565. when it was 

 attacked and taken by the Spaniards. He fled and wandered through 

 the swamps several days before meeting Laudonniere and some fifteen 

 others who had escaped the massacre. Later they reached the mouth 

 of the river, boarded one of the small ships and made sail for France, 

 " ill manned and ill provisioned. But God, however, gave us so 

 fortunate a voyage, although attended with a good deal of sufi^ering, 

 that we made the land in that arm of the sea bordering on England 

 which is called St. George's Channel." 



Now to quote from Laudonniere's record. 



The first of the three ships to return to France departed from 

 Florida July 28, 1564. About November 10, 1564 " Captain Bourdet 

 determined to leave me, and to return to France." During the summer 

 of 1565 the French were visited by the English Admiral Hawkins. 



Laudonniere. with his small party including the artist Lemoyne, 

 sailed from Florida September 25, 1565. " About the 25th of Octol)er, 

 in the morning, at the break of day, we described the Isle of Flores, 

 and one of the Azores, where, immediately upon our approaching to 

 the land, we had a mighty gust of wind, which came from the north- 

 east, which caused us to bear against it four days ; afterwards, the 

 wind came south and south-east, and was always variable. In all the 

 time of our passage, we had none other food saving biscuit and water." 

 About November 10, 1565, they reached the coast of Wales and 

 landed, having been carried out of their course and thus failed to 

 reach France. They had landed at Swansea. Laudonniere then wrote : 



