Cap. VIII. The CaribbyJ flands. 



pation of it, but alfo thofe he found in two other Forts which 

 they had built along the Coaft r which he burnt and demolifh'd^ 

 as may be feen in the xii. Chapter of the fourth Book of the 

 Defcription of the Weft-Indies^ writ by John de Laet. 



The Memorials which Captain de Gorgues caufed to be 

 printed, giving an account of his Expedition into Florida, tell 

 us of a certain French-man named Peter duBre^ who having 

 made his efcape to King Saturiova, to avoid the cruelty of the 

 Spaniards, related to him, that there efcaped of that Mafla- 

 cre but ten men., of which number he was one 3 that they all 

 met with a fafe retreat in the territories of the faid Prince, 

 who liv'd net far from their defolatcd Colony 5 that- three of 

 the efcaped perfons dy'd there fome months after that defeat 5 

 that of the feven remaining, there were fix were fo charm d 

 witrhthe advantageous relation which thefubje&s of Saturiova 

 made to them daily of the Treafures of King Mayra^ of . the 

 poweifulnefs of another whofe name was Ollaca 3 who com* 

 manded forty Princes, and of the generofity and prudent 

 conduct o£ the King of Apalacha, who govern'd many fair and 

 large Provinces feated at the foot of the Mountains, and 

 reaching into feverai delightful Vales which they ericom- 

 pals'd 5 that they importun'd Saturiova, who had entertain'd 

 them fo kindly, that he would be pleas'd to allow them guides, 

 to conduct them to the Frontiers of the Kingdom of the laft 

 named,- of whom they had heard fo many miracles, and had 

 particularly this recommendation, that he was a lover, of 

 Strangers* and that his Subjects were the moft civilly govern d 

 of all the Septentrional part of America \ thatSdfw •* -va y wil- 

 ling to add that favour to all thofe they had receiv'd rrooi him 

 before, gave them a good convoy, confining of the moft vali* 

 ant of his fubjeds, to conduct them with all fafety to a ll his 

 Allies, and to the Dominions of the King of Ap dacha, ii chey 

 were defirous to vifit him. 



The relation of the fuccefs of this Progrefs, which theie few 

 French-men undertook to fatisfie their curiofity, and to make 

 rhe beftufethey could of this interval of their misfortune, af- 

 furesus, that after they had vifited Athorns^thc Son o| Haiu- 

 riova^and moft of his Allies, who had their Villages all ajgng 

 a delightful rviver which in their Language they call Seby,to 

 avoid meeting any of the fubje&s of Timag&a 3 who was then 

 engaged in a War againft Saturiova, there was a necefllty they 

 fhould crofs Rivers upon boughs of trees fafteifd together, 

 climb up Mountains, and make their way through Fens and 

 thick Forefts, where they met with feverai cruel beafts , tha£ 

 before they came within the Dominions of the King of Apala- 

 cha, they were many times fet upon by Troops of Savages s who 

 fcout up and down among thofe vaft defarts 3 that tvvo of their 

 Guides were kill'd in thofe encounters, and moft of the reft 



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