Abstract of the elements of U S history . rencli Huguenots there before him, already three years in occupancy; and the conflictsbetween the two jjarties during the next three years constitute one of the bloodiest chaptersin Americau ;. Where Menendez hanged his Protestant prisoners, not as Frenchmen,but as heretics, dourgues presently hanged the Spaniards, not as Spaniards, but astraitors, robbers, and murderers. .Spaniards and Frenchmen alike, says Parkman, laidtheir reeking swords on Gods altar. Parkmans own account of this terrible St. Augustineepisode, Huguenots in Florida, forms
Abstract of the elements of U S history . rencli Huguenots there before him, already three years in occupancy; and the conflictsbetween the two jjarties during the next three years constitute one of the bloodiest chaptersin Americau ;. Where Menendez hanged his Protestant prisoners, not as Frenchmen,but as heretics, dourgues presently hanged the Spaniards, not as Spaniards, but astraitors, robbers, and murderers. .Spaniards and Frenchmen alike, says Parkman, laidtheir reeking swords on Gods altar. Parkmans own account of this terrible St. Augustineepisode, Huguenots in Florida, forms the first part of his Pioneers of France in the NewWorld; ancHt is the best account which exists. Spain still maintained herself at St. Au-gustine ; but presently, two years before the Armada, the town was utterly destroyed bySir Francis Drake,— a prophecy of the power which was ultimately to be supreme in IMoridaand America. Ihe subsequent fortunes of St. Augustine may be followed in Fairbankss ad-mirable history of the ancient <©Iti ^outlj Hcaflct^ No. 90. Amerigo Ves-puccis Accountof his ThirdVoyage. From his Letter to Pier Soderini, GOxNfolonier of the Rbpub-Lic OF Florence. Being afterwards in Seville, resting from so many laborsthat I had endured during these two voyages, and intend-ing to return to the land of pearls, Fortune showed that shewas not content with these my labors. I know not howthere came into the thoughts of the Most Serene King DonManuel of Portugal the wish to have my services. Butbeing at Seville, without any thought of going to Portugal, amessenger came to me with a letter from the Royal Crown, inwhich I was asked to come to Lisbon, to confer with hisHighness, who promised to show me favor. I was not in-clined to go, and I despatched the messenger with a reply thatI was not well, but that, when I had recovered, if his Highnessstill wished for my services, I would come as soon as he mightsend for me. Seeing that he could not have me, he ar
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