The Lily and the Totem, Or, The Huguenots in Florida: A Series of Sketches, Picturesque and Historical, of the Colonies of Coligni, in North America, 1562-1570 |
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The Lily and the Totem, Or, the Huguenots in Florida. a Series of Sketches ... William Gilmore Simms No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 260 - was so great that one was found that gathered up all the fish bones that he could finde, which he dried and beate into powder to make bread thereof. The effects of this hideous famine appeared incontinently among us, for our bones eftsoones beganne to cleave so neere unto the skinne, that the most part of the souldiers had their skinnes pierced thorow with them in many partes of their bodies.
Page 315 - ... his ship twenty barrels of meal and four pipes of beans, with divers other victuals and necessaries which he might conveniently spare; and to help them the better homewards, whither they were bound before our coming, at their request we spared them one of our barques of fifty ton.
Page 315 - And this maize was the greatest lack they had, because they had no labourers to sow the same ; and therefore to them that should inhabit the land it were requisite to have labourers to till and sow the ground. For they having victuals of their own, whereby they neither rob nor...
Page 117 - ... their thighes, he shewed him others not so olde, which were the children of the two first, which he continued in the same maner untill the fifth generation.
Page 122 - One principal door of my lodging was in the midst of the great place, and the other was toward the river. A good distance from the fort, I built an oven, to avoid the danger against fire, because the houses are of...
Page 109 - ... to recite, that my pen is loth to write it. After so long time and tedious travels, God of his goodness using his accustomed favor, changed their sorrow into joy, and showed unto them the sight of land.
Page 116 - Afterward, they questioned with him concerning the course of his age : whereunto he made answer, showing that he was the first living original, from whence five generations were descended, as he showed unto them by another old man that...
Page 24 - Which done, and finding the same deep inough to harbour therein gallies and galliots in good number, proceeding further, he found a very open place...
Page 119 - Royal, it would neither be very profitable nor convenient; at the least, if we should give credit to the report of them which remained there a long time, although the haven were one of the fairest of the West Indies; but that, in this case, the question was not so much of the beauty of the place, as of things necessary to sustain life.
Page 106 - ... it upon the one side. Being now more out of hope than ever to escape out of this extreme peril, they cared not for casting out of the water, which now was almost ready to drown them. And, as men resolved to die, every one fell down backward, and gave themselves over altogether unto the will of the waves.