. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres . very hard to put them out : which also turnedto his utter undoing : for hee was no sooner departedfrom us, but a tempest tooke him, which in fine wrackthim upon the coast, where all his shippes were castaway, and he with much adoe escaped drowning, to fallinto their hands which cruelly massacred him and allhis company. The fourth voyage of the Frenchmen into Florida,under the
. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres . very hard to put them out : which also turnedto his utter undoing : for hee was no sooner departedfrom us, but a tempest tooke him, which in fine wrackthim upon the coast, where all his shippes were castaway, and he with much adoe escaped drowning, to fallinto their hands which cruelly massacred him and allhis company. The fourth voyage of the Frenchmen into Florida,under the conduct of Captaine Gourgues, inthe yeere, 1567. Aptaine Gourgues a Gentleman borne inthe Countrey neere unto Bourdeauxincited with a desire of revenge, torepaire the honour of his nation, bor-owed of his friends and sold ipart ofhis owne goods to set forth and furnishthree ships of indifferent burthen withall things necessary, having in them an hundred andfiftie souldiers, and fourescore chosen Mariners underCaptaine Cazenove his lieutenant, and Francis BourdeloisMaster over the Mariners. He set forth the 22 ofAugust 1567. And having endured contrary winds andstormes for a season, at length hee arrived and went. DOMINIQUE DE GOURGUES ad. shore in the Isle of Cuba. From thence he passed tothe Cape of Saint Antony at the end of the He of Cuba,about two hundred leagues distant from Florida, wherethe captaine disclosed unto them his intention whichhitherto he had concealed from them, praying andexhorting them not to leave him being so neere theenemie, so well furnished, and in such a cause : whichthey all sware unto him, and that with such couragethat they would not stay the full Moone to passe thechanell of Bahama, but speedily discovered Florida, The chanell ofwhere the Spanyards saluted them with two Canon Bahama be-shot from their fort, supposing that they had beene of ^^^ ^^^ ^skstheir nation, and Gourgues saluted them againe to enter- them in this er
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