il'î. ',1 < 214 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF LOUISIANA. infected it, as though they had been venomous. In the morning the sea was assuaged, and the wind slacked, but not the mosquitoes; for the sails, which were white, seemed black with them in the morning. Those which rowed, unless others kept them away, were not able to row. Having passed the fear and danger of the storm, beholding the deformities of their faces, and the blows which they gave themselves to drive them away, one of them laughed at another. They met all together in the creek where the two brigantines were which outwent their fellows. There was found a scum which they call copee, which the sea castcth up, and it is like pitch, wherewith in some places, where pitch is wanting, they pitch their ships; there they pitched their brigantines. They rested two days, and then eftsoons proceeded on their voyage. They sailed two days more, and landed in a bay or arm of the sea, where they stayed two days. The same day that they went from thence six men went up in a canoe toward the head of it, and could not see the end of it. They put out from thence with a south wind, which was against them; but because it was little, and for the great, desire they had to shorten their voyage, they put out to sea by the force of oars, and for all that made very little way, with great labor, in two days, and went under the lee of a small island into' an arm of the sea, which compassed it about. While they were there, there fell out such weather, that they gave God many thanks that they found out such an harbor. There was great store of fish in that place, which they took with nets, which they had, and hooks. Here a man cast an hook and a line into the sea, and tied the end of it to his arm, and a fish caught it, and drew him into the water unto the neck; and it pleased God that he remembered himself of a knife that he had, and cut the line with it. There they abode fourteen days ; and at the end of them it pleased ïod to send them fair weather, for which, with great devotion, they ippointed a procession, and went in procession along the strand, be-¦eaching God to bring them to a land where they might serve him in setter sort. In all the coast wheresoever they digged they found fresh water ; :liere they filled their vessels, and the procession being ended, embarked themselves, and going always in sight of the shore they sailed Âx days. John Danimco said that it would do well to bear out to seaward; for he had seen the sea-card, and remembered that from Rio