In South Carolina. 13 



years before it was occupied by the English, and called 

 by theni Carolina in honor of Charles II. of England. 



The situation of this second colony also soon be- 

 came precarious, and, the love of their native land 

 reviving in the midst of a distressing want of sup- 

 plies and a growing dissension among the settlers, 

 they constructed a rough brigantine — the first vessel 

 that was ever built by Europeans on the American 

 continent — in which, through untold sufferings and 

 perils of the deep, they made their way back to the 

 shores of beloved France. 



If this enterprise of Coligny had been successful, 

 and the colony had been protected and cherished by 

 the King of France, soon settlers of another faith 

 would have been added to the Huguenots, and Caro- 

 lina would have witnessed the same scenes of perse- 

 cution as those which cursed the mother -country. 

 But Charles IX. desired not the preservation of the 

 colony, but its destruction rather; for when Don Pedro 

 Menendez captured the Huguenots whom Coligny sent 

 out three years afterward to plant a settlement in Flor- 

 ida (1565), and hanged them on trees, with the inscrip- 

 tion, " I do not do this as. to Frenchmen, but as to 

 Lutherans," it was not only without a word of rebuke 

 or remonstrance from the king, but there is good rea- 

 son to believe it was with the sanction and connivance 

 of the royal court. And when Chevalier de Gourgues 

 fitted out an expedition at his own expense, and capt- 

 uring these cruel Spaniards, hanged them in terrible 

 revenge to the same trees, with the counter-inscrip- 

 tion, " I did not do this as to Spaniards, nor as to infi- 

 dels, but as to traitors, thieves, and murderers," instead 

 of being rewarded and honored by his own govern- 

 ment, he was even persecuted and left to be pursued 



