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Show 'I'IU: LIL\' A~D '1111:: 'fO'ft:~J. an end of the French name, and honor, and well-being ; they will find no refuge on the face of tho earth. Speak, then, my comrades. Let me hear that you ft.Jcl and think and will resolve with me. I :u;k you to do nothing, and to peril nothing, beyond myself I have already 6tnkcd all my woddly fortunes on thi~ one object. I now offer to march at your head, to give you the first example of self-sacrifico. Is there one of you who will refuse to follow?" A speech so utterly unexpected, at first took his followers by surprise; but the appeal was too grateful to their real sympathies, their commander too much beloved, and the infusion of genuine Gaseous too large among the ad\•enturers, to make them hesitate in their decision. 'fhey felt the justice of the appeal; were warmed to indignation by the sense of injury and discredit cast upon the honor and tho arms of !<'ranee ; :md, soon recovering from their astonishment, they eagerly pledged themselves to follow wherever he should lead. With cries of enthusiasm they declared themselves ready for the work of vcngcanec; and, taking , them in the bumor which he had inspired, De Gourgucs sufft.Jred not a moment's unnecess:~ry del:1y to interfere with his progress. Crowding all sa.il upon his vessels, he rapidly crossed the straits of Dahama, and stretched, with easy course, along the low shores of the Floridian. v. OOURGUES WELCO~ED BY THE FLORtDfANS. h was not very long before hjs vessels drew in sight of one of the Forts of tho Spaniards, situabd at th~ entrance of l\Iay River. So little did they apprchc:d th ~ :'lpp:·o!ICh of m1y French armament, 427 that they saluted that of Do Gourgucs, as if they had been ships of their own nation, mistaking them as such. Our chevalier cncoumgcd their mistake. He answered their salute, gun for gun; but he passed onward without any intercourse, and the night following entered tbc river, called by the Indians Tacataeourou, but to wl1ich the French had gh•cn the name of the Seine, some fifteen leagues distant. !lore, confounding the strangers with the Spaniards, a formidable host of Indians were prepared to give them battle. Tho red-men had by this time fully experienced the tender mercies of their brutal and bigoted neighbors; and had learned to contrast them unfavorably with what they remembered of the Frenchmen under Ribault and Laudonuicrc. With all the faults of the latter, th ~y knew him really as a gentle and moderate commander; by no means blood-thirsty, and doing notbing in mere lust of power, wantonly, and with a spirit of malicious provocation only. '!'here were nlso other inftuences at work nmong them, by which to impress them favorably towards the French, and make them bittedy hostile to the usurpers by whom they had been destroyed. It needed, therefore, only that Gourgues should ·make himself known to the nath·cs, to discover their hostility. Tic employed for this purpo!!C his trumpeter, who had served under Laudonniere, and was well known to tho king, Satouriova, whoso province lay along tl10 waters of the 1'acnt.acourou1 nnd with whose tribe it was the good fortune of our Frenchmen to encounter. Satouriova1 knew the trumpeter at once, and received him graciously. He soon revealed tho existing relations between the red-men and the Spaniards, nnd was delighted when assured that the Frenchmen had come to renew and brighten the ancient chain of friendship which had bound tho red-men in amity with the people of La |