The Whole and True Discouerye of Terra Florida by Jean Ribault
so that it makethe a verry faire haven and shippes
of a meane burden from iiij xx to c. tonnes may
entre therein at all flodes, yea, of a farre greater
burthen if there were Frenchemen dwelling there
that myght scoure thentree as they do in Fraunce,
and where nothing is lacking for the lief* of
man. The scituation is under the elevation of xxx
degrees, a good clymate, helthfull, of good tem-
peraunce,f marvelous pleasaunt, the people gen-
till || and of a good and amyable loving nature,
which willingly will obaye, ye, be content to serve
those that shall with gentilnes and humanytie go
aboute to alure them as yt [is] nedefull for all
those that shalbe sent thither hereafter so to do,
and as I have chardged those of oures that be lefte
there to do, to thende that by these meanes they
may ask and learn of them where the [y] take there
gould, copper, turquises, and other thinges yet
unknown unto us, by reason of the shortnes of
tyme we soiurned there; for if any rude and rig-
orious meanes shuldbe used towardes this
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* Life ; P., lyfe. f P., temperature.
II V., good.
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