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September 10th (search for this): chapter 7
materials. Don Pedro Menendez came to the Florida coast with a Spanish fleet, and founded the town of St. Augustine. Ribaut took most of Laudonniere's soldiers, with his ships, and went to attack the ships of Menendez. Meanwhile the Spaniards marched by land, five hundred in number, through swamps and across streams, guided by a French deserter, to attack the fort. Laudonniere thus describes what took place after Ribaut's departure.] The very day that he departed, which was the 10th of September, 1565. there rose so great a tempest, accompanied with such storms, that the Indians themselves assured me that it was the worst weather that ever was seen on the coast. Whereupon, two or three days after, fearing lest our ships might be in some distress, I sent for Monsieur Du Lys unto me, to take order to assemble the rest of our people to declare unto them what need we had to fortify ourselves; which was done accordingly. And then I gave them to understand the necessity and inc
May (search for this): chapter 7
. . The next day, the 23d of this month, June.—because that toward the south I had not found any commodious place for us to inhabit, and to build a fort,—I gave commandment to weigh anchor, and to hoist our sails to sail toward the River of May, St. John's River. where we arrived two days after, and cast anchor. Afterward going on land with some number of gentlemen and soldiers, to know for a certainty the singularities of this place, we espied the paracoussey Chief. of the countroached, and then returned to lodge in our ships. Being allured with this good entertainment, I failed not the next day to embark myself again with my lieutenant, Ottigny, and a number of soldiers, to return toward the paracousseyof the River of May, which of purpose waited for us in the same place where, the day before, we conferred with him. We found him under the shadow of an arbor, accompanied with fourscore Indians at the least, and apparelled at that time after the Indian fashion; to wi
April (search for this): chapter 7
land called La Florida, drawing toward the north part, unto the head of Britons, i.e., Cape Breton. The whole coast was then thought a part of India. distant from the said head of La Florida nine hundred leagues, or thereabout, to the end we might certify you, and make true report of the temperature, fertility, ports, havens, rivers, and generally of all the commodities that be seen and found in that land, and also to learn what people were there dwelling. . . . Thursday, the last of April, at the break of the day, we discovered and clearly perceived a fair coast, stretching of a great length, covered with an infinite number of high and fair trees; we being not past seven or eight leagues from the shore. . . . . Where finding thirty-six fathom water [we] entered into a goodly and great river, Probably St. John's River, Florida. which, as we went, found to increase still in depth and largeness, boiling and roaring through the multitude of all kind of fish. This being en
April 22nd, 1564 AD (search for this): chapter 7
ge all their navigation. The Englishmen consulted a long time what were best to be done; and in fine they resolved to put on land those that were most feeble, and to carry the rest unto the Queen of England, which purposed at that time to send into Florida. [They finally reached England, having doubtless made the first voyage across the Atlantic ever accomplished in an American-built vessel.] Iii.—Laudonniere's search for the colonists. [Laudonniere sailed with three ships, April 22, 1564, on an expedition in search of the men whom Ribaut had left at Port Royal nearly two years before. He reached the St. John's River a little more than two months later.] The second voyage into Florida, made and written by Capt. Laudonniere, which fortified and inhabited there two summers and one whole winter. . . . . The next day, the 23d of this month, June.—because that toward the south I had not found any commodious place for us to inhabit, and to build a fort,—I gave command<
1562 AD (search for this): chapter 7
Book VII: the French in Florida. (A. D. 1562-1565.) Indians in canoe. Ribaut's personal narrative is here reprinted from Hakluyt's Divers Voyages (London, Hakluyt Society, 1850), pp. 91-15. These extracts from Laudonniere's narrative are reprinted from Hakluyt's translation in his Voyages (edition of 1810), vol. III. pp. 371-373, 378-384, 386, 387, 423-427. Parkman tells the story of these adventures in the first half of his Pioneers of France in the New World. There is a memy Jared Sparks, in his American Biography, vol. XVII. I.—Jean Ribaut in Florida. [Dedicated to a great nobleman admiral de Coligny. of France, and translated into English by one Thomas Hackit.] Whereas, in the year of our Lord God 1562, it pleased God to move your Honor to choose and appoint us to discover and view a certain long coast of the West India, from the head of the land called La Florida, drawing toward the north part, unto the head of Britons, i.e., Cape Breton. T
1850 AD (search for this): chapter 7
Book VII: the French in Florida. (A. D. 1562-1565.) Indians in canoe. Ribaut's personal narrative is here reprinted from Hakluyt's Divers Voyages (London, Hakluyt Society, 1850), pp. 91-15. These extracts from Laudonniere's narrative are reprinted from Hakluyt's translation in his Voyages (edition of 1810), vol. III. pp. 371-373, 378-384, 386, 387, 423-427. Parkman tells the story of these adventures in the first half of his Pioneers of France in the New World. There is a memoir of Ribaut by Jared Sparks, in his American Biography, vol. XVII. I.—Jean Ribaut in Florida. [Dedicated to a great nobleman admiral de Coligny. of France, and translated into English by one Thomas Hackit.] Whereas, in the year of our Lord God 1562, it pleased God to move your Honor to choose and appoint us to discover and view a certain long coast of the West India, from the head of the land called La Florida, drawing toward the north part, unto the head of Britons, i.e.,
September 19th (search for this): chapter 7
chose two, one of whom was named Monsieur Saint Cler, and the other Monsieur De la Vigne, to whom we delivered candles and lanterns to go round about the fort to view the watch, because of the foul and foggy weather. I delivered them also a sand-glass or clock, Hour-glass. that the sentinels might not be troubled more one than another. In the mean while, I ceased not, for all the foul weather, nor my sickness which I had, to oversee the corps de garde. Guard. The night between the 19th and 20th of September, La Vigne kept watch with his company, wherein he used all endeavor, although it rained without ceasing. When the day was therefore come, and that he saw that it rained still worse than it did before, he pitied the sentinels, so too [much] moyled Muddied. and wet. And, thinking the Spaniards would not have come in such a strange time, he let them depart, and, to say the truth, he himself went unto his lodging. In the mean while, one which had something to do with
1565 AD (search for this): chapter 7
Book VII: the French in Florida. (A. D. 1562-1565.) Indians in canoe. Ribaut's personal narrative is here reprinted from Hakluyt's Divers Voyages (London, Hakluyt Society, 1850), pp. 91-15. These extracts from Laudonniere's narrative are reprinted from Hakluyt's translation in his Voyages (edition of 1810), vol. III. pp. 371-373, 378-384, 386, 387, 423-427. Parkman tells the story of these adventures in the first half of his Pioneers of France in the New World. There is a memive hundred in number, through swamps and across streams, guided by a French deserter, to attack the fort. Laudonniere thus describes what took place after Ribaut's departure.] The very day that he departed, which was the 10th of September, 1565. there rose so great a tempest, accompanied with such storms, that the Indians themselves assured me that it was the worst weather that ever was seen on the coast. Whereupon, two or three days after, fearing lest our ships might be in some distre
September 20th (search for this): chapter 7
f whom was named Monsieur Saint Cler, and the other Monsieur De la Vigne, to whom we delivered candles and lanterns to go round about the fort to view the watch, because of the foul and foggy weather. I delivered them also a sand-glass or clock, Hour-glass. that the sentinels might not be troubled more one than another. In the mean while, I ceased not, for all the foul weather, nor my sickness which I had, to oversee the corps de garde. Guard. The night between the 19th and 20th of September, La Vigne kept watch with his company, wherein he used all endeavor, although it rained without ceasing. When the day was therefore come, and that he saw that it rained still worse than it did before, he pitied the sentinels, so too [much] moyled Muddied. and wet. And, thinking the Spaniards would not have come in such a strange time, he let them depart, and, to say the truth, he himself went unto his lodging. In the mean while, one which had something to do without the fort, a
May 20th (search for this): chapter 7
r king's arms granted therein, to plant and set the same in the entrance of the port in some high place, where it might be easily seen. And, being come thither before the Indians were assembled, we espied, on the south side of the river, a place very fit for that purpose upon a little hill, compassed with cypress, bays, palms, and other trees, with sweet-smelling and pleasant shrubs, in the middle whereof we planted the first bound Boundary stone. or limit of his Majesty. . . . The 20th of May, we planted another column or pillar, graven with the king's arms, on the south side, in a high place at the entrance of a great river, which we called Libourne, Probably Skull Creek. where there is a lake of fresh water very good. . . . . There we saw the fairest and the greatest vines with grapes according, and young trees and small woods, very well smelling, that ever were seen; whereby it appeareth to be the pleasantest and most commodious dwelling of all the world. Wherefore, my
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