12 History of Methodism 



the town of Beaufort. The enterprise, however, was 

 brought to a speedy and disastrous termination; for 

 the Indians, at first feigning friendship with the new 

 settlers, and thus throwing them off their guard, rose 

 up suddenly against them, and putting more than two 

 hundred to a cruel death, chased the rest in bloody 

 strife to their ships, in terrible revenge of the perfidy 

 of De Ayllon, who five years before had entered the 

 Combahee with two vessels, and enticing a large num- 

 ber of Indians on board, quickly weighed anchor, and 

 bore them away into slavery in St. Domingo. 



If this first attempt to colonize Carolina under the 

 auspices of Spain had been successful, it would have 

 fastened upon the province the paralyzing influence 

 of the Church of Kome. 



After the expiration of thirty-eight years, another 

 attempt was made to found a colony in Carolina, under 

 the auspices of France. Admiral de Coligny, having 

 long desired to establish a place of refuge in America 

 to which his brother Protestants, the Huguenots, 

 might repair from the growing persecutions of their 

 mother-country, and having failed in planting a set- 

 tlement in 1555 on the present site of Eio Janeiro, in 

 South America, planned a new expedition in 1562, and 

 placed it under the command of Jean Ribault, of 

 Dieppe. Sailing along the coast in search of the 

 Combahee (Jordan), he entered the same magnificent 

 harbor which had attracted the Spanish colony, and 

 to which he gave the name of Port Royal; and choos- 

 ing for his settlement a site near the one which had 

 been selected by De Ayllon, he erected a monumental- 

 stone engraved with the arms of France, and built 

 Fort Charles, the Carolina, in honor of Charles IX. of 

 France, thus giving name to the country a hundred 



