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Show 250 TilE LILY AND TilE TOTE)!:. the warrior, and the deadly fang of the war-rattle, for the path between us is everywhere sown with tho darts of death.' Thus he spake, nnd 1 was silent. I W3.'1 guilty. I could not excuse myself, and did not entreat. I felt the truth of his complaint and the justice of his anger. I felt how great had been my folly and my crime. lsklkalina wn.s lost to us both. Thus then, a fugitive, and an outlaw from Calos, dreading every moment the vengeance of Wn.-hn-la. and his warriors, I dwelt for seven years with Onatl,aqua, who hath ever treated me as a sou. 1 have fought among his w:uriors, and shared the fortunes of his people, of which noihing more need be said. Tidings at length came to me, of a people in tho country bearded like myself. Then cnmo your messengers to Onathaqun, and you behold me here. I looked not for Frenchmen but for Spaniards. I thank and praise the Blessed Mother of God, that 1 have found friends if not countrymen, and that I sec, once more, tho faces of a Christian people." Thus ended the narrative of Le Darbu, or the Dcarded Man of Calos. .. ' XVIII. IIISTORICAL SUMMARY. W.r. have already mentioned that, with the restoration of Laudonniere to power, and the complete subjection of his mutineers, be resumed by degrees his projccU! of exploration and discovery. Among other places to which he sent his barks, was the territory of King Audusta1 occupying that region iu which Fort Cbn.rles hn.d been crcctad by Ribn.ult, in tho first n.ttempt to colonize in the country. To Audusta, himself, were sent two suits of nppnrel, with knives, hatchets and other trifles j "the better," as Lnudonniero says, "to insinuate myselfc into his friendship." To render this hope more plausiblfl, " I sent in the barkc, with Captn.ine Vasseur, a souldier called Aimon, which was one of those ,vhich returned home in the first voyage, hoping that King Audusta might remember him." This Aimon was instructed to inquire nftcr :mother soldier nnmed Roulli, who, it appears, had preferred remaining in tho country, when i~ had been abandoned by the colonists under Nicolas BarrtS. Audusla received his ' 'isitors with great favor1-scnt back to Laudonniere a largo supply of " mil, with a certaine quantity of beanos, two stagges, some skinnes painted after their manner, and eertaine pearlcs of small value, because they were burnt." Tba |