. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . JACQUES CARTIER SETTING UP A CROSS AT GASPE. THE FRENCH VOYAGEURS. 115 career of a different class of Frenchmen. It would haveneeded but a few minor changes in the shifting scenes of his-tory to have caused North America to have been colonizedby French Protestants, instead of French Catholics. AfterVillegagnon and his Huguenots had vainly attempted a colonyat Rio Janeiro in 1555, Jean Ribaut, with other Huguenots,. THE LANDING OF JEAN RIBAUT. made an actual settlement seven years later, upo
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . JACQUES CARTIER SETTING UP A CROSS AT GASPE. THE FRENCH VOYAGEURS. 115 career of a different class of Frenchmen. It would haveneeded but a few minor changes in the shifting scenes of his-tory to have caused North America to have been colonizedby French Protestants, instead of French Catholics. AfterVillegagnon and his Huguenots had vainly attempted a colonyat Rio Janeiro in 1555, Jean Ribaut, with other Huguenots,. THE LANDING OF JEAN RIBAUT. made an actual settlement seven years later, upon what is nowthe South Carolina coast. At his first approach to land, theIndians assembled on the shore, offering their own garmentsto the French officers, and pointing out their chief, who re-mained sitting on boughs of laurel and palm. All the earlyexperience of the Frenchmen with the natives was marked bythis gentleness, and by a very ill-requited hospitality. Then Il6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. sailing to what is now the St. Johns River, and arriving onMay-day, they called it River of May, and found in it thatcharm which it has held for all explorers, down to the succes-sive military expeditions that occupied and abandoned it dur-ing our own civil war. Here they were again received by apicturesque crowd of savages, wading into the water up totheir shoulders, and bringing little baskets of maize and ofwhite and red mulberries, while others offered to help theirvisitors ashore. Other rivers also the Frenc
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