Cap. 1. The Canbbyvl (lands. 169 



This unexpected good News reviv'd their decay 'd hopes, 

 and heightned the courage of thofe who were mod caft down, 

 fo that there needed not many arguments ro perfwade them to 

 a return into that delightful Country which was already pof- 

 fcifs'd of their hearts and tendered affections. 



Being arrived there, every one refum'd his former place, 

 with a refolution to make an abfolute fetlement 3 bur the Fa- 

 miflej which prefs'd hard upon them, would no doubt have 

 check'd the progrefs of all thefe promifing deligns, and they 

 would have been cruuYd by the extraordinary labour-.' which 

 they were at the fame time oblig'd to undergo, as well in re- 

 building their houfes, as planting things neceffary for their 

 fubfifrence, if in thofe preffmg extremities Cod had not dire- 

 cted thither for their relief feme Ships belonging to the Uni- 

 ted Provinces, which, finding what a deplorable condition 

 they were in,generoufly fupply'd them with provifions^cloaths,, 

 and ail things neceffary j nay to put an abfolute obligation 

 upon them, they had no other fecurity for their fatisfaction 

 then their bare words. 



The French^ having thus feafonably overcome the inconve- 

 niences which they had ftruggled with from the firft begin- 

 ning of their eftabiifhment, employ 'd themfelves fo earneftly 

 afterwards in their Plantations, that, through the bleffmg of 

 God on their labours, the Earth furnilh'd them with Prc^rii- 

 ons, and Tobacco in inch abundance, that they honeirly fatis- 

 fy'd their charitable Creditors, and in a fbort time were better 

 accommodated with all things then they had been before their 

 defeat by the Spaniards : Yet were they ftiii in want of Men 

 to carry on their Enterprizes, and the Commerce which be^an 

 to be efrablifh'd among them. To nmedy that, Dejnami v, 

 who found his ccnUancy attended with fo good njcceis, 

 thought it the fureft and mod likely expedient, to permit the 

 principal Inhabitants of the Colony to return into France to 

 make Levies there, and to bring over what numbers they 

 Ihould raife on their own charge. This prudent advice sing 

 accordingly put in execution, the Ifland was in a few years 

 fupply'd with abundance of gallant perfons, who brought k 

 into reputation. 



The Efiglijh Colony made alfo a fhift in a fhort time to make 

 up all the breaches it had receiv'd by the invafionof the Spani- 

 ards : The Company at London^ which had undertaken the di- 

 rection of it, fencing over continual iupplies of Men and re- 

 freshments, the two Quarters whereof the EngUJb were pof- 

 fefs'd in the Ifland of S. Chrijiophers became too narrow to 

 maintain fo great a multitude, infomuch that beiides the Ifland 

 of Mtvis^ which they had peopled before their defeat by the 

 Spaniards , they grew fo powerful, as in lefs then four years to 

 fpread themfelves into new Plantations in the Iflands of the 



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