Sinopsis

Introduction—The Huguenots—Their Condition in —First Expedition for the New World, under the auspices of the iral Coligny, Conducted by John Ribault—Colony Established in Florida, and confided to the charge of Captain Albert. The Huguenots, in plain , were the Protestants of . They were a sect which rose very soon after the preaching of the Reformation had ed from into the neighboring countries. In , they first excited the apprehensions and provoked the hostility of the Roman Catholic priesthood, during the reign of Francis the First. This prince, unstable as water, and governed rather by his humors and caprices than by any fixed principles of conduct...