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against the intruders, murdered the governor, and greatly 

 harrassed and thinned the settlers. 



On receiving this intelligence in France, a new company 

 was proposed, and a reinforcement of a thousand colonists. 

 Other merchants were to share in the enterprize. The former 

 adventurers had erred by their violence ; these were to carry 

 out every christian virtue. The multitude indeed could only 

 be recruited from among persons of broken fortunes and cha- 

 racter ; but these it was presumed would copy from their 

 chiefs. The abbe Marivault, a most pious, virtuous, and re 

 spectable ecclesiastic, was to be the governor, or rather high- 

 priest, of this new Jerusalem; the general Roiville was in- 

 tended for a subordinate character. In the act of embarking, 

 at Havre, the abbe Marivault's foot was said to have slipped ; 

 he fell into the sea, and was drowned. Roiville was assassi- 

 nated during the passage. Those who arrived at Cayenne, 

 displayed there, the same insubordination and atrocity which 

 had broke loose on ship-board. They quarrelled with each 

 other, with the former settlers, and with the natives; many 

 died of wounds, more of the climate. The garrison deserted 

 to the Dutch. The remnant of settlers, who clung longest 

 to their properties, were obliged to fly from the hostility of 

 the Indians, and escaped to one of the leeward islands in a 

 boat and two canoes. Thus failed the second attempt to settle 



