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of certain death, and to be Food for fuch ravenous Cannibals, fo macerated and 

 confum'd him, that he was almoft dwindled away to Skin and Bone . where- 

 upon thinking him thus lean to make but few favory Morfcls, they chang'd 

 their t'refolutionS; am * growing better acquainted , he having learn'd their 

 Tongue, and being able to difcourfe with them, they lik'd his company fo 

 well, that they let him live amongft them. Nine years Stade had been a Slave 

 amongft thefe Man-eaters, when the French coming thither, bought him for a 

 few Trifles, and carried him to T^prmandy, where landing Anno 1555. he went 

 from thence to Hamburgh , being his Native Countrey. 



Nicholas Durande a Frenchman fet Sail from Havre de Grace, at the fame timfc 

 when Stade came thither. ThisDurande having loft a Caftle in Brittain, to the 

 great prejudice of the French, out of a pretence of advancing their Affairs,and 

 to fill up their almoft exhaufted Treafury, reported, That the Spanijb and Tor- 

 tuguefe Forces were driven out of India , where they had gather'd fo much 

 Wealth • and it would certainly redound to the Honor and Profit of France y 

 if they could become Matters of the Gold and Silver Mines. King Henry the 

 Second approving of the Propofal, and the more becaufe the Admiral Gafyer 

 Qoligni was alfo very earneft, looking upon it as a fafe Retreat for the Prote- 

 ftants, at that time cruelly perfecuted : and Durande, fenfible of the Admirals 

 thoughts, privately inform'dhim, That in his American Dcfign he chiefly aim'd 

 to plant a True Church of God in Jmerica, where the ProfefTors might enjoy 

 thefnfelves peaceably. This Report being fpread amongft thofe that call'd 

 themfelves Trotejlants, (fled from Switzerland in great numbers to France) made 

 many of them venture upon the Defign ; who having fitted themfelves, and 

 fetting fail with three Ships, after fome time arriv'd on the Coaft of Srafile, 

 and landed on the ^pck-I/land, in the Haven Januario : Here Durande built feve- 

 ral Watch-houfes, and the Fort Coligni, which he fortified with a confiderable 

 number of Guns : Not long after he writ to John Calvin, That he would pleafc 

 to furnifh this new Plantation in Srafile with good and able Teachers of the 

 Cofpcl ; which Requeft being immediately taken into ferious confideration by 

 the Clafles, one fhilip Corguileray, a Gentleman near Geneva, fet Sail out of the 

 Haven Honfleurs, with three Ships, freighted with fome Provifions, feveral Per- 

 fons of divers Trades, and two Minifters, Peter Richer, and William Chartier : 



Diffemionintbcnewco. But he had fcarce made Africa, when they began to have a fcarcity of Victuals; 

 wherefore they turn'd their Defign of fetling theGofpel in America, toPyracy,' 

 where they made fmall fcruple or difference, whether Friends or Foes, but 

 ixjadc Prize of all they could light upon, though indeed their Minifters both 

 •prcach'dand perfwaded the contrary, amongft whom a Controverfie happen- 

 ing, put other Bufinefs into their Heads • for one John Cointak, formerly a <Pd- 

 rifian Sorbomfl, was alfo amonaft thofe that removed from Geneva, who pretend- 

 ed that Coligni had promis'd him a Minifters place, fo foon as he landed at !Bra* 

 ftle 5 but Quicker and Chartier, not fatisfied that there was any fuch Promife, and 

 confequently thinking themfelves not obliged by his bare AfTertion, told him, 

 That themfelves being able, under Qod, to perform the Work, they needed no 

 fuch Coadjutor : This bred fo great a Rancor between them, that Cointak ac - 



WkkcdncTsofciiiif^a- cus'd them for teaching falfe Doctrine, and chiefly that they did not mix the 

 Wine at their Sacraments with Water, which Father Clemens had ftri&ly com- 

 manded. Durande, being prcvail'd on by the Cardinal of Loretn, joyn'd with 

 Cointak, and thereupon fo fharply perfecuted the Trotejlants, that he ftarv'd fe- 

 veral of them, which others to elcape fled to the Brajilians : Nay, he took John 



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