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Show 314 TiT£ LILY A"D TJII: TOTEM· pipes of hermes, one hog."hcad of s!l.lt, and a hundred ( clvt. ?) of waxc to make candles. Moreover, forasmuch a~ hoc saw my souldicrs goe barcfoot.c, hcc offered me besides fifty paircs of sl~ocs, which I accepted." "ITo did more th:m this," snys T~audonmcrc. u no bestowed upon mysclfc a great. jarro of oylc, a jarrc of vincgnr, n. barcll of oJi,·cs, n. great quantitic of rice, and a b~rc~l of white biscuit. Besides, he gave divers presents to the pnnclpal officers of my corr.pany according to their qualities: so that, I may say, that we recci\·cd as many courtesies of the Gcncn\11 as was possible to receive of any man li\'ing." Here, we arc fortunately in possession of the narrative of1Jaw'kins himself, and his report of tho encounter with our :Frenchmen. It affords a good commentary upon the bad management of LauUI)n· niere, and the worthless character of his followers; the sturdy Englishmen seeing, at a glance, where all the evils of the colony lay. Ile describes their first settlement as gathered from their own lips i their numbers, tho period they had rcuwlned in tho country, their frequent want, and the modes resorted to for escap· ing famine. His details comprise all the facts of our history, as already given. Of their discontents and rebels, he speaks as of a claas, "who would not take the paiucs so much as to ft.Shc in the river before their doores, but would ha,·e all thinges put in their mouthes. They did reboil against the Cn.ptaine, taking away first his armour, and afterwards imprisoning Lim, &c." 'l'heno.rrativc of Ilawkins gives tho subsequent history of the rebels, their piracy, capture nod fate. lie mentions one particular, which we do not gather from Lnudonuicre, showing tho sngacity of the Floridian warriors. Finding that the Frenchmen, in battle, were protected by their coats of mail, or cscaupil, and the bucklers in familiar use at the time, they directed their arrows at the faces llr.STORIC.AL SU.lllllf.ARY. 315 and the legs of their enemies, which were the parts in which they were mostly wounded. At the close of this war, according to our }:nglishmcn, Lnudonnicre had not forty soldiers left unhurt. After detniling t!Je supplies accorded to tl10 colonists from his stores, he adds, " notwithstanding tlJC great want that the l~rench· men had, the ground doth yield victual:t sufficient, if tll("ly would Jmvc taken paines to get the same ; bnt tl1ey beiug 501ddiu~, desired to live by the ~u;eat of other mw'! br01ces." ITere spcnks the jealous scorn of the snilor. "1'110 ground yieldeth naturr~lly great store of grapes, for in the time the l~rcnehmen were there t hey made twenty hogs!Jcads of wine." Our poor lluguenots could seck gold and manufacture wine, but could not raise pro' 'isions. They were of too lmughty a stomnch to toil for any but tl.JC luxuries of life. "Also," says Hawkins," it ( the cnrth) yu.!ldeth roots passing good1 deere marvellous store, with divers other bcastes and fowle serviceable to man. These be things wherewith a man may live, having carne or maize wherewith to make bread, for maize mnketh good snvory bread, and cakes as fine as flowre ; also, it makcth good meale, benton and sodden with watcr,nnd nourishable, wl1ich the l?renchmcn did use to drink of in the morning, and it assungeth their thirst, so that they ba,·e no need to drink all the day after. And this maize was the grcntest lack they had, because tl1cy hnd no labourers to J!Owe the snmo; nnd therefore, to them tl1at should inl1abi~ the lnnd, it were requisite to have labourers to till nnd sowe the ground i for they, having victuals of their owne, whereby they neither spoil nor rob the inhabitants, mn.y live not only quietly with them, who nat·urally are more desirou! of peatt tltatt of ?Cane, but also shall have nbundance of Yictuals proffered thorn for nothing, &c." Tho testimony of IIawkins is a.s conclusive in behalf of tho Flori- |