The story of the Huguenot colony passed naturally into the historical records of the seventeenth century;[1006] but it got more special treatment in the next century, when Charlevoix issued his _Nouvelle France_.[1007] The most considerable treatments of the present century have been by Jared Sparks in his _Life of Ribault_,[1008] by Francis Parkman in his _Pioneers of France in the New World_,[1009] and by Paul Gaffarel in his _Histoire de la Floride Française_.[1010] The story has also necessarily passed into local and general histories of this period in America, and into the accounts of the Huguenots as a sect.[1011] [Illustration] CHAPTER V. LAS CASAS, AND THE RELATIONS OF THE SPANIARDS TO THE INDIANS. BY GEORGE EDWARD ELLIS, _Vice-President of the Massachusetts Historical Society._ WHEN the great apostle of the new faith, on his voyage from Asia to Europe, was shipwrecked on a Mediterranean island, “the barbarous people” showed him and his company “no little kindness.” On first acquaintance with their chief visitor they hastily judged him to be a murderer, whom, though he had escaped the sea, yet vengeance would not suffer to live. But afterward “they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.”[1012] The same extreme revulsion of feeling and judgment was wrought in the minds of the natives of this New World when the ocean-tossed voyagers from the old continent first landed on these shores, bringing the parted representatives of humanity on this globe into mutual acquaintance and intercourse. Only in this latter case the change of feeling and judgment was inverted. The simple natives of the fair western island regarded their mysterious visitors as superhuman beings; further knowledge of them proved them to be “murderers,” rapacious, cruel, and inhuman,—fit subjects for a dire vengeance.