What to see in America . St. Augustines Narrow Streets would not trustthemselves to himand retraced theirsteps. While try-ing to build avessel from frag-ments of thewrecks, a Span-ish force attackedthem. Some werecaptured, and therest fled to the Indian tow^ns. The name of the inlet whereso many of the French ended their lives means the placeof slaughter. In 1586 the famous English sea rover. Sir Francis Drake,plundered and burned St. Augustine, but no sooner was hegone than the people, who had fled at his approach, cameback and began rebuilding. Two Indian villages wereestablished close by, n
What to see in America . St. Augustines Narrow Streets would not trustthemselves to himand retraced theirsteps. While try-ing to build avessel from frag-ments of thewrecks, a Span-ish force attackedthem. Some werecaptured, and therest fled to the Indian tow^ns. The name of the inlet whereso many of the French ended their lives means the placeof slaughter. In 1586 the famous English sea rover. Sir Francis Drake,plundered and burned St. Augustine, but no sooner was hegone than the people, who had fled at his approach, cameback and began rebuilding. Two Indian villages wereestablished close by, north of the town, and one evening in1598 the Indians slew a priest in the chapel of each they went to the several other missions up and downthe coast and very nearly exterminated the was an-other Indian out-break forty yearsafterward, and alarge number ofnative prisonerswere brought toSt. Augustine andset to work onthe and their descendants were On the Ocklawaha River. Florida 189 kept at this task for sixty years. In 1665 John Davis, afamous pirate, sailed into the harbor with seven vessels,and again the town was plundered and its wooden portionburned. While England and Spain were at war an expe-dition of whites and Indians fromSouth Carolina attacked in 1702 by land andby sea. The stone fort of SanMarco was nearing completion,and though the town was easilycaptured, the fort withstoodthe enemy. Gen. Oglethorpe ofGeorgia bombarded St. Augus-tine in 1740 with three batterieslocated on Anastasia Island, andthe entire population of the town,about three thousand, took refugein the fort, which again provedimpregnable. Florida was ceded to Englandin 1762 and ceded back in was bought by the UnitedStates in 1821. The gray andtime-worn old fortress of SanMarco standing beside the seawith its gloomy portals and darkchambers is the most fascinatingfeature of St. Augustine. Its firststone was laid in 1592, the lastin
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