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Show 422 1'UE LILY AND 1'1U: TOTEM. Benin, in Africa, whence we carry the negro cannibal, that he may be made a Christian by proper labor under Christian rule." And De Gourgucs proceeded to unfold the history of the traffic in slaves, as it was carried on by all nations at that period; it:; marvellous profit and no less marvellous benefits to the untutored and miserable heathen. The Marccbal listened with great edification. "Ah! Monsieur, were I now what you knew me when we fought in Tuscany, now nearly thirty years ago! But it is too late. 1 must ever remain what I am, a poor Gascon, as my sovereign l1ath ever known me; too heedful of his fortune ever to give proper tendancc to my own!" Ill. GOURGUES AT SEA.. THE Chevalier de Gourgues received his commission, and his preparations for the expedition were at once begun. He converted hi'l goods and chattels into money-his lands and moveables. He sold everything that be possessed. Nor did he rest here. He borrowed of friends and neighbors. His credit was good-his reputation great--himself beloved. H was easy to inspire confidence in the ostensible objects of his expedition. The world then conceived very differently of the morals of such an enterprise, than it docs at present. The moneys thus realized were employed in arming two roberges, or brignntines,-ships of light burthen, resembling the Spanish caravels; and one patac.he, or tender, a vessel modelled after the frigate of the Levant, and designed for penetrating shallow harbo-rs. One hundred and fifty LIOl!INlQUE D£ GOUROU£8, 423 soldiers, and eighty sailors, formed l1is eon1plemcnt of men, of whom one hundred were armed with the cross-bow. There were many gentlemen, volunteers, in the expedition; and De Gourgues had taken the precaution to secure tho sen·ices of one who had b~cn a trumpeter under Laudonnicrc, and had made his escape wtth that commander. Provisions for a year were laid in; and every preparation Laving been made, and every precaution taken, as well with tlw view to secrecy, as to the prosecution of tho object, the squadron sailed for Bordeaux, on tho second day of August, 1567, just two years after the flight of Laudonniere from Florida. But the fates, nt first, did not seem to smile upon the enterprise. BafHed by contrary winds, our chevalier was at length driven for shelter into the C_barentc, where he lay till the twenty-second, when he put to sea, only to cncour1tcr new disappointm. cnts. His ships were separated by a severe tempest, and some tunc elapsed before they were re-unitccl. He had provided against this event by ordering his rendez\'ous at the mouth of the Rio del Oro, upon the coast of Africa. From this point b13 rauged the coast down to Cape Blanco, where, instigated by tho Portuguese, he was assailed by three African clriefs, with their naked savages, whom he beat otf in two actions. He then proceeded and continued iu safety upon his route, until he reached Cape Vcrd, when he turned his prows suddenly in tho direction of America. The first land which he mado in this progress was Dominica, one of the smaller Antilles i thence he drew on to Pol'to Rico, nnd next to Mona; tho cacique of which place supplied him liberally with fresh provisions. Stretching :l.lvay for the continent, be encountered a tempest, which constrained him to seek shelter in the port of San Nicholas, on the west side of Hispanioln, where he repaired his vessels, greatly shattered by |