live not only quietly with them, _who naturally are more desirous of peace than of warre_, but also shall have abundance of victuals proffered them for nothing, &c." The testimony of Hawkins is as conclusive in behalf of the Floridians as it is unfavorable to our Frenchmen. He speaks in the highest terms of the qualities and resources of the country, as abounding in commodities unknown to men, and equal to those of any region in the world. He tells us of the gold procured by the Huguenot colonists, one mass of two pounds weight being taken by them from the Indians, without equivalent. The latter he describes as having some estimation of the precious metals; "for it is wrought flat and graven, which they wear about their necks, &c." The Frenchmen eat snakes in the sight of our Englishmen, to their "no little admiration;" and affirm the same to be a delicate meat. Laudonniere tells Hawkins some curious snake stories, which could not well be improved upon, even in the "Hunter's Camp," on a "Lying Saturday." "I heard a miracle of one of these adders,"--snakes a yard and a half long,--"upon the which a faulcon (hawk) seizing, the sayd adder did claspe her taile about her; which, the French captaine seeing, came to the rescue of the faulcon, and took her,--slaying the adder." There is no improbability in this story; but we shall be slow to give our testimony in behalf of that which follows: "And the Captaine of the Frenchmen saw also a serpent with three heads and foure feet, of the bignesse of a great spaniel, which, for want of a harquebuse, he durst not attempt to slay." Laudonniere had evidently some appreciation of the marvellous; but only _four_ feet to _three_ heads was a monstrous disproportion. The account which Hawkins gives of the abundance of fish in the neighborhood of the garrison, is no exaggeration, and only adds to the surprise that we feel at the wretched indolence and imbecility of the colonists, who, with this resource "at their doores," depended for their supply upon the Floridians.