Pioneers of France in the New World . fell ill again. A peasant-woman attended him,who was brought over, he says, to nurse the sick andtake charge of the poultry, and of whom Le Moynealso speaks as a servant, but vi^ho had been made theoccasion of additional charges against him, most offen-sive to the austere Admiral. Stores were landed, tents were pitched, women andchildren were sent on shore, feathered Indians mingledin the throng, and the borders of the River of Mayswarmed with busy life. But, lo, how oftentimesmisfortune doth search and pursue us, even then whenwe thinke to be at rest! exc
Pioneers of France in the New World . fell ill again. A peasant-woman attended him,who was brought over, he says, to nurse the sick andtake charge of the poultry, and of whom Le Moynealso speaks as a servant, but vi^ho had been made theoccasion of additional charges against him, most offen-sive to the austere Admiral. Stores were landed, tents were pitched, women andchildren were sent on shore, feathered Indians mingledin the throng, and the borders of the River of Mayswarmed with busy life. But, lo, how oftentimesmisfortune doth search and pursue us, even then whenwe thinke to be at rest! exclaims the unhappy Lau-donniere. Amidst the light and cheer of renovatedhope, a cloud of blackest omen was gathering in theeast. At half-past eleven on the night of Tuesday, thefourth of September, the crew of Ribauts flag-ship,anchored on the still sea outside the bar, saw a hugehulk, grim with the throats of cannon, drifting towardsthem through the gloom ; and from its stern rolled onthe sluggish air the portentous banner of CHAPTER VII. Spain. — Pedro Menejtdez de Aviles. — His Boyhood. — His Early Ca-reer. — His Petition to the King. — Commissioned to conquer Flor-ida- — His Powers. — His Designs. — A New Crusade. — Sailing of theSpanish Fleet.— A Storm. — Porto Rico. — Energy of Mknendez. —He reaches Florida. — Attacks Ribauts Ships. — Founds St. Augus-tine.— Alarm of the French. — Bold Decision of Ribaut. — De-fenceless Condition of Fort Caroline. — Eibaut thwarted. — Tem-pest.— Menendez marches on the French Fort.—His DksperatePosition. — The Fort taken. — The Massacre. — The Fugitives. The monk, the inquisitor, the Jesuit, these were thelords of Spain, — sovereigns of her sovereign, for theyhad formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyranni-cal recluse. They had formed the minds of her people,quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, andgiven over a noble nation to a bigotry bhnd and inex-o
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