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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 7 (search)
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