Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ti-gator of that act. True, it ultimately led to a short peace, but it waslong before there was even the semblance of a reconciliation betweenparties hating each other with both religious and political rancor ;long before there was any real relief to a country whose business andagriculture were wellnigh ruined, whose discharged soldiers lived byrobbery, whose people were generally suffering for want of food, and*from whose borders a foreign foe had still to be expelled. But in 1564, Coligny represented to the king that no news hadbeen heard from the men sent to Florida, and that it was a pity theycoiignys should be left to perish. A new expedition was determinedStSeT 0^5 ^^^ it is ^^t certain that the survivors taken from thedonnit^i* pinnace did not arrive in France before it sailed. If so, the■^^^- attempt at colonization, at any rate, was to be persevered in, and three ships sailed in April under the command of CaptainRene de Laudonniere, who was with Ribault on the first voyage.
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1564.) COLIGNYS SECOND COLONY. 197 In June the fleet of three ships arrived in the River of May. Onlanding, the Frenchmen were greeted with shouts of welcome by acrowd of Indians, men and women, who cried out, Ami! Ami! (Friend ! Friend!) the one French word they had learned from theirformer visitors, and remembered. Their Paracoussy, or chief, whosename was Satouriona, led the Frenchmen to the pillar of X •! 1 1 1 T c ^ Ribaulfs stone which Ribault had set up two years before, and wee puiaradored xiv Il ^^ natives. found the same, says Laudonniere, crowned with crownesof Bay and at the foote thereof many little baskets full of mill(corn), which they call in their language, Tapaga Tapola. Then,when they came thither, they kissed the same with great reuerence,and besought vs to do the like, which we would not denie them, tothe ende we might drawe them to be more in friendship with vs.The next day the chief received the captain and his suite in state, vnder the shadow of an arbour, ap

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