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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
cks, they abandoned all hope but of an escape from a region so remote and malign. Amidst increasing dangers they went onward through deep lagoons and the ruinous forest in search of the sea, till Aug. they came upon a bay, Cette baye est precisement ce que Garcilasso de la Vega appelle dans son histoire de la Floride le Port d'aute. Charlevoix: Journal Hist. Let. XXXIV., p. 473. I adhere to the constant tradition. which they called Baia de Caballos, and which now forms the harbor of Saint Mark's. No trace could be found of their ships; sustaining life, therefore, by the flesh of their horses and by six or seven hundred bushels of maize plundered from the Indians, they beat their stirrups, spurs, crossbows, and other implements of iron into saws axes and nails; and in sixteen days finished five boats each of twenty-two cubits, or more than thirty feet in length. In caulking their frail craft, films of the pal- Sept. metto served for oakum, and they payed the seams with pitch fr