Sacraments with Water, which Father _Clemens_ had strictly commanded. _Durande_, being prevail’d on by the Cardinal of _Lorein_, joyn’d with _Cointak_, and thereupon so sharply persecuted the _Protestants_, that he starv’d several of them, which others to escape fled to the _Brasilians_: Nay, he took _John Du Bordell_, _Matthias Vermeil_, and _Peter Bourdon_, out of their Sick-Beds, and tying their Hands and Feet, threw them headlong from a Rock into the Sea: Soon after which, the bloody Persecutor return’d with ill success to _France_, where he wrote a Book against the Reform’d Religion; but all the Honor which he gain’d was, that all Parties on both sides accounted him a distracted Person. SECT. XIII. _The Expeditions of_ John Ribald, Renatus Laudonier, _and_ Gurgie. [Sidenote: _Florida_ unhappily discover’d.] [Sidenote: _Ribald_’s Voyage.] [Sidenote: The Garrison in _Florida_ in great want.] [Sidenote: Unheard-of Hunger.] _Florida_ being upon the Continent of _America_, and so call’d by _John Pontæus_, who landed there upon _Palm-Sunday_, though _Sebastian Gaboto_ a _Venetian_, imploy’d by _Henry_ the Seventh King of _England_, landed there before, may well be term’d _the_ Europeans _Bloody Stage_, _Pontæus_ being slain here: But _Ferdinand Sotto_ exercis’d against the Inhabitants inhumane Cruelty five years together; yet at last died of a deep discontent, because he could not reach his Aims, having condemn’d so many _Floridans_ fruitlesly to dig for Gold in the Mines. However, since that, _Julian Sumanus_ and _Peter Ahumada_ undertook the Work anew, but with the like bad Success. _Anno 1545._ one _Lodowick Cancello_, a _Dominican_, thought to effect great things with four of his Associates; but landing on _Florida_, was destroy’d by the Natives. But _Gasper Coligni_ the Marshal, neither discourag’d by these miserable Proceedings, nor the former Treachery of _Durande_, prepar’d for a new Expedition thither; and accordingly _John Ribald_ was fitted with two Ships from _Diep_, at the Charge of _Charles_ the Ninth King of _France_, wherewith having sail’d thirty Degrees Northern Latitude, he came before the Promontory of _Francisco_, where he ran up into the Mouth of a wide River, to which he gave the denomination of _Dolphin_, upon whose Banks were whole Mulberry-Woods, which nourish’d Silk-Worms in strange abundance. From hence he sail’d by the _Wolves Head_ (a Point so call’d, because great numbers of Wolves breed there) and leaving the _Cedar-Island_, landed on _Florida_, where he built a Triangular Fort, and having furnish’d it with Men, Guns, and Provisions, sail’d back for more Supplies to _France_; but coming thither, found all things in disorder, occasion’d by a War amongst themselves; so that the _French_ which guarded and dwelt in the Fort, waited in vain for Relief, and their Provisions growing scant, thought it fittest and their best way to