Construction of a pinnace to evacuate Charlesfort
English: Building the Pinnace Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches) Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders Year: 1876 (1870s) Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888 Subjects: Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: use, and refilled it. With hunger anddestitution the colonists grew discontented, desperate, and insubordi-nate. Captain Albert, either from an ill-judged attempt to enforcerigid discipline among these starving wretches, or else in the merewantonness of power, hanged a drummer, named Guernache, forsome trifling fault, and banished a soldier, La Chere, to a desolateisland, where he was afterward found half dead from hun- Mutiny andger. Thereupon followed defiance and mutiny from others ^i«o*is^ed.who were threatened with the like punishments, and these only endedin the murder of the captain. Then Nicolas Barre was chosen gov-ernor, a man worthy of commendation, and one which knewe sowell to quit himselfe of his charge that all rancour and dissentionceased among them. There was at last peace. But they were as hungry as before, and the question now was, howto get back to France. So desperate was their condition that, althoughthere were no mechanics among them, they determined to build a Text Appearing After Image: Building the Pinnace. small pinnace. For cordage they took such rope as the Indians couldmake for them; for sails, what they had left of their own sheets andshirts; for provisions, as much corn as the natives chose to give; and so,drunken with excessive joy at the hope of seeing France Building ofagain, but as always, without foresight and consideration, embSaSonand with slender victual, they put to sea. No madder ^° ^^*°*^-voyage, perhaps, was ever undertaken. Only one third of it was 196 FRENCH DISCOVERIES. (Chap. VIII. made when the wind failed them. For the next three weeks theysailed only twenty-five leagues, and then provision became so shortthat twelve kernels of corn a day was each mans allowance. Eventhis was soon exhausted, and there was nothing left to eat but theirshoes and leather jackets. A part died of hunger. Water there wasnone, except the salt sea that poured in at every seam of their crazycraft. A storm overtook them, and for three days they lay helpless andMisery Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.