A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ich Franceclaimed as her own. The foothold she next strove for was much farther south, where itwas hoped a handful of Huguenots might find an asylum ^^ ^^^^^,from religious persecution. In 1555 a colony went out to g^uJIfAmer-the Rio de Janeiro, but it soon came to a dismal end. They ^^*-were Protestants, seeking to escape in the wilderness the
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ich Franceclaimed as her own. The foothold she next strove for was much farther south, where itwas hoped a handful of Huguenots might find an asylum ^^ ^^^^^,from religious persecution. In 1555 a colony went out to g^uJIfAmer-the Rio de Janeiro, but it soon came to a dismal end. They ^^*-were Protestants, seeking to escape in the wilderness the scaffold andthe fagot to whichtheir religious belief athome exposed them;but bitter dissensionssoon arose among themupon such questions aswhether water couldbe rightfully mixedwith the wine of theLords Supper, or itsbread be properlymade of Indian , the lead-er, repenting of hisProtestant heresies, ifhe ever seriously en-tertained them, returned to the bosom of the indulgent mother church,and abandoned his command. A little remnant of the colony wasattacked by the Portuguese, and if any escaped alive it was only bythrowing themselves upon the more tender mercy of the savages. 1 Lescarbot, Histoire de Colonie Frangaise en French Costumes (16th Century). 190 FRENCH DISCOVERIES. [Chap. VIIL Meanwhile the Reformation took deeper root in France, — a strugglefor political power as well as for the rights of conscience. There weremany anxious to escape from present wrong and suffering, and fromthe uncertainties of the future, strong as the Protestant party hadAdmiral Co- g^owii both amoug the people and at Court. Coligny, the lordcSony^un-* admiral, and leader of the Huguenots, with a view to theRibauu!^ glory of Francc, and to the protection also of his oppressed1562. countrymen, proposed to renew the attempt at colonization in the New World. In February, 1562, he sent from Havre, in thename of the king, two ships nnder the command of Captain JohnRibault, to
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