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now -did not ferioufly repent of having on fuch 

 flight grounds abandoned the Adour ; for after 

 Don Diego left us, the canoe was fent to her, but 

 thofe who vifited her reported, that the Indians had 

 entirely demolifhed her, and that (he was filling 

 full of water. 



On the twenty-third, the boat was finifhed, and 

 we began to think in good earned of coming to 

 fome final refolution. Two ways offered, on 

 which the opinions were divided the firft were 

 for rjfking the paffage to the Havannah, and the 

 others for purfuing the coaft to St. Auguftin. The 

 laft feemed to be the fafeft, as the firft was the 

 Ihorteft. But had this beenfolid, it ought to have 

 been refolved upon the day after we were caft a- 

 way, or rather we ought to have fent our long- 

 boat to inform the governor of our fituation, and 

 pray him to fend us a brigantine. The rigging 

 only of the Adour, would have been fufficient to 

 have indemnified him for his expences. 



Be this as it will, the greateft part of our com- 

 pany were for this lad refolution ; and it was im- 

 poffible for me to bring them to any other. They 

 were forty in number, they demanded the long- 

 boat and canoe, and we were obliged to comply. 

 The captain of the Adour was of this number. 

 Had it not been for this reafon, I mould have 

 thought my felf obliged in duty to accompany them ; 

 but there was a neccffity of dividing their fpirituai 

 adiflance, as well as the victuals and other ftores. 

 On the morrow after mefs, the chaplain, who was a 

 Dominican, would have me to blefs the three vef- 

 fels ; I obeyed, and baptized the boat, to which' 

 I gave the name of the Saint Saviour. In the even- 

 ing after prayers, 1 made one laft effort tp bring 



