C a p. 1. The Caribby-Iflands. 



be conquer'd and reduc'd under the jurifdi&ion of the King of 

 France , upon this provifion, that the fa id Company fhould 

 have a care, and make it their earneft bufinefsto fupply the Co- 

 lony with men for the keeping and cultivation of it 5 as alio 

 with Ecctefiafticks to be maintained by allowances from the 

 faid Company >, and Jaftly to build certain Forts there for the 

 fecurity of the Inhabitants, and tofurnifh them with Canon, 

 Powder, and all forts of Ammunition •, in a word, to main- 

 tain a fufficient Arfenal, wherein fhould be all things in readi- 

 nefs to oppofe the Enemy. 



This Company, or Society, was eftablifiYd in ihe moneth of 

 O&oker. in the year of our Lord, one thoufand fix hundred 

 twenty and fix, as well for the Government ofS.Chrifiophers^ 

 as thole other I (lands which are adjacent thereto, and was ap- 

 prov'd by the King of France. Since that time it hath been 

 further confirm'd, and favour 'd with fome new Conceffions, 

 and very advantageous priviledges obtain 'd from his raoft Chri- 

 ftianMajefty the eighth of March^ one thoufand fix hundred 

 forty and two, for all thelflands of America, lying between the 

 tenth and thirtieth degree on this fide the Equator. 



Defnambuc having thus order'd his affairs in France^ returns 

 to S. Cbrijiophers with a recruit of three hundred men, which 

 the Gentlemen of the Company newly ere&ed had raifed, in 

 order to the advancement of that Colony.* He brought over 

 alfo along with him a confiderable number of gallant Volun- 

 teers, who look'd on it as no fmall honour to run fortunes with 

 fo famous an Adventurer, and to participate of his honourable 

 hazards, out of a confidence in procefs of time of reaping the 

 frukof his Conquefts. They got all fafely to S.Chriftophers, 

 about the beginning of the year, M.DC.XXVII. and though 

 they had fuffered much during their Voyage, and were moff of 

 them either fick or much weakned, yet were they not difcou- 

 rag'dby thofe difficulties, but reflecting that the nobleft enter- 

 prifes are many times attended by great inconveniences, and 

 that Rofes cannot be gather'd without thorns, they immedi- 

 ately fell to work, and having in a (hort time learn'd of thofe 

 whom they found in the Ifle what they were to do in order to 

 their further efhblifhment, they behav'd themfelves anfwera- 

 bly to the generous defigns of their Captain, who on his part 

 more and more encourag'dthem by words and example. 



How thelfland was to be divided between the two Nations 

 had been defign'd before that Voyage 5 but the particular Ar- 

 ticles of the Divifion were folemnly agreed to and concluded 

 on the 13th of May, in the faid year, M. DC. XXVII. For to 

 the end that every one might employ himfelf with fome affur- 

 anceupon his own flock, and that no differences might arife 

 between the French and the Englifi, M. Warner being return'd 

 from England fome time before the arrival of Dejnambuc^ 



Y where 



