The Hijlory of Book 11. 



all thofe who have at the prefent any fetlement in the bofom 

 of his Country, might peaceably continue in their habitati- 

 ons, and participate of the fame priviledges with the Natives, 

 provided they held no correfpondence with any abroad, to 

 the prejudice of the publick tranquillity $ but that hencefor- 

 ward no other ftrangers (hall be permitted to make any fur- 

 ther eftabliftiments there. 



Thofe who are acquainted with the Nature of the Country, 

 affirm, that the King of the Apalachites hath no juft caufe to 

 fear that either the Englifi or any other ftrangers (hould be 

 guilty of any defign againft him, as to the mattering of his 

 Country : For, befides the neceffiry there is of having a very 

 powerful Army, ere any fuch enterprife can be undertaken, 

 and that the Englijh who are eftablifti'd there, are no more 

 amongft that great Nation, than a handful of fand on the Sea- 

 fide } this Country being fo remote from all the reft of the 

 w T orld, and deftitute of Gold, Silver, precious Stones, and in 

 a manner all rich Commodities, whereby Commerce is kept 

 up and continu'd 5 it is moft certain, that it will never be much 

 fought after or envy'd by anv European Nations, which fend 

 out Colonies only to thofe places, where there is hope of ma- 

 king fome confiderable advantage by way of Trade. Where- 

 to may be added this further consideration, that, though thefe 

 Provinces were poftefs'd of as great Treafures and Rarities , as 

 they are deftitute thereof 5 yet lying at a great diftance from 

 Sea-Ports, and having no navigable Rivers falling into it, by 

 means whereof there might in time be fome correfpondence 

 between them and other parts, there is no likelihood that 

 there ftiould be many perfons either in England or any where 

 elfe, who would be perfwadedto crofs over fo many Seas, to 

 go and end their days in a Country which is deftitute of all 

 thofe conveniences, and cannot receive thofe refrefhments 

 which are brought out of Europe, and contribute much to the 

 comfortable fubfiftance of all the other Colonies of America 5 

 and in a word, a Country, which can give its Inhabitants no- 

 thing but clothing andnouriftiment. 



Some time after the Englijh had eftablifti'd themfelves in this 

 Country, as we have represented before, the Spaniards (who 

 as it were keep the keys of one part of Florida, by means of 

 the Forts they have built near the moft eminent Havens, and 

 along the moft confiderable Rivers J brought in there a com- 

 pany of religious men of the Order of the Minimes , whom 

 Pope Vrban the eighth had fent into the Septentrional America, 

 in the quality of Apofiolical Mijfionaries, and endow'd with 

 moft ample priviledges, for their better encouragement in 

 the carrying on of that work : They arriv'd in thofe Provinces 

 in the year, One thoufand fix hundred forty and three } and 

 fince that time they have taken their progvefi through moft of 



