TheBjloryof Book II. 



hands, and that that little portion of his Vineyard being care- 

 fully drefs'd, would in time bring forth many good and preci- 

 ous fruits, to the praifeof his grace. 



Thefe happy beginnings and firft-fruits of the Golpel of our 

 Saviour Jefis, were afterwards augmented and advanc'd by the 

 cares of Monfieur the Admiral deColigny, who gave a Com- 

 tmffioxxto one de Laudoniere, to carry over thither a conside- 

 rable fupply of Soldiers and all forts of Tradefmen, which ar- 

 riv'd in the year One thoufand five hundred fixty and four : 

 But thefe laft Adventurers had hardly taken the air in the 

 Country after their arrival thither, ere the Spaniard, who ima- 

 gines that all America belongs to him, and who hath ever been 

 jealous of the French Nation, made his advantage of the dis- 

 orders which were then in that Country, to traverfe the gene- 

 rous defigns of the Directors of that hopeful Colony, and 

 fmother it as 'twere in the Cradle : To that purpofe he lent 

 thither Peter Melandez with fix great mips full of men and am- 

 munition, who fell upon it on the nineteenth of September, 

 MDLXV. 



Monfieur de Laudoniere and Captain Ribauld, who had not 

 long before brought the Colony a fmall recruit of men, con- 

 lidering that it would be madnefs to think to oppofe fuch a 

 powerful force, refolv'd, with the advice of moft of the Offi- 

 cers, to capitulate and deliver Hp the place to the ftronger 

 party, upon fuch honourable conditions as people befieg'd 

 are wont to demand. Peter Melande% granted them moft of 

 the Articles they had propos'd , but aflbon as he was got into 

 the Fort, and had fecur'd the Guards, he, broke the promue 

 he had made them, and violating the Law of Nations, he cru- 

 elly maflacred not only the Soldiery, but alfo all the women 

 and children, whom he found within the place, and who could 

 not make their efca^e by flight. 



p Captain Ribauld fell in the MafTacre $ but de Laudoniere 

 madeaftiift to efcape, through the Fenns, to the (hips newly 

 come from France, which by good fortune were ftill in the 

 Road : Some others of the Inhabitants, who, upon the firft 

 arrival of the Spaniards, had forefeen the danger likely to 

 fall upon them, got in time into the woods, and in the night 

 time came to the Village of their good friend Saturiova, who, 

 hating the Spaniard, gave them protection, and fupply'd them 

 with provifions for a competent fubfiftance, till the year 

 M D LXVII. when Captain deCorgues, coming to Florida with 

 three ftout (hips full of refolute men and all forts of Ammu- 

 nition, leverely punilhed the cruelty of the Spaniards, and 

 being affifted by Saturiova, and all his Neighbours and Allies, 

 he reveng'd the publick injuries of the French, putting to the 

 fword all the Spaniards he met with, not only in the Fort of 

 Carokna, which they had repair'd and fortified after their ufiu> 



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