The Whole and True Discouerye of Terra Florida by Jean Ribault

covered, which is of great consequence, we con- cluded through the helpe of God to retourn into France to make relation unto you of the effecte of our navegation.* Praying to God that yt may please him to kepe you in long helthe and pross- perytie and give unto you the grace to cause this faire discoverture of this Newe France to be cun- tynewed and dylligently followed. ===================================================== * Laudonniere has : ‘which things being well and at large de- bated we resolved to leave the coast, forsaking the North, to take our way toward the East, which is the right way and course to our France, where we happily arrived the twentieth day of July, the yere 1562-‘ Hakluyt, op. tit., viii. 473-4.

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