Note 54 — Chapter I

Mr. J. Winter Jones, the editor of the Divers Voyages for the Hakluyt Society, says, concerning the original French edition of this work, that it “is not known to exist, and it is doubtful if it ever was printed.” Hakluyt, however, in his “Discourse on Westerne Planting,” published as vol. ii., Doc. Hist. of Maine, p. 20, says it is “extant in print, both in French and English”. [Sparks, in his Life of Ribault, p. 147, says that he cannot find that the original French was ever published; but Gaffarel, Floride Francaise, says it was published in London, 1563, as Histoire de l’Expédition Francaise en Floride, and soon became scarce.—Ed.]