Narrative of Le Moyne - An Artist Who Accompanied the French Expedition to Florida, Under Laudonnière, 1564 #231146

On the 20th April, I 564, our three ships set sail from Havre de Grace, and steered direct for the Fortunate Islands, or, as seafaring men call them, the Canaries. Sailing thence, on the tropic we made the Antilles Islands, at one of which, called Dominica, we watered, losing, however, two men. Making sail again, we. Reached the coast of Florida, or New France as it is called, on Thursday, 22d June.