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Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (1533-1588), illustrator and cartographer, accompanied Rene de Laudonniere’s ill-fated attempt to colonize Florida in 1564. The first European artist to reach Florida, Le Moyne charted the St. John’s Bluff region, now Jacksonville, and sketched scenes from the lives of the Timucua Indians.
Nov 25, 2015 · Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, Floridae Americae provinciae recens & exactissima descriptio. 1591. Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress. Le Moyne's broad triangle version of Florida.
- I. THE PROMONTORY OF FLORIDA WHERE THE FRENCH LANDED, CALLED BY THEM, CAPE FRANÇOIS
- VII. THE FRENCHMEN LEFT IN CHARLESFORT SUFFER FROM A SHORTAGE OF CORN
- VIII. THE FLORIDIANS WORSHIP THE COLUMN SET UP BY THE CAPTAIN ON THE FIRST VOYAGE
- IX. THE FRENCH CHOOSE A SUITABLE PLACE FOR BUILDING A FORT*
- XVIII. REQUESTS MADE OF THE CHIEF BY WOMEN WHOSE HUSBANDS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN BATTLE OR CARRIED OFF BY DISEASE*
- XXV. THEIR HUNTING OF DEER
- XXVIII. PREPARATIONS FOR A FEAST*
- XXXV. THEIR SOLEMN RITUAL IN CONSECRATING A DEERSKIN TO THE SUN
- XLI. THE WAY THEY COLLECT GOLD IN THE STREAMS FLOWING DOWN FROM THE APALATCI MOUNTAINS*
On the first voyage to the province of Florida the French landed at a promontory* which was of no great elevation (for the coast was low-lying) but densely wooded with extremely tall trees. In honor of France the captain of the fleet named it Cape François and its position in about 30° from the equator. Following the coast north from there they fou...
short time after Captain Ribault’s departure from Florida, those who had been left in Charlesfort* (the stronghold which he had built above a small stream, on an island which stands in the larger, north-facing, channel of Port Royal) began to suffer from a shortage of corn. They therefore canvassed various opinions about how to deal with this probl...
When the French had landed in the province of Florida, on the second voyage made under Laudonnière’s leadership, he went down on shore himself, accompanied by twenty-five arquebusiers, and was received in greeting by the Indians (for these had come up in crowds to see them). Even the chief Athore came, who lives four or five miles from the seashore...
When many of the rivers of that region had been explored the conclusion was finally reached that a base should be chosen on the River of May rather than on any other river; because they had already noticed that it, more than the rest, was rich in millet and corn besides gold and silver which were found there on the first voyage. So they steered the...
The wives of those who have fallen in battle or died of disease are accustomed to gather on a day that they judge to be somwhat favorable for addressing the chief. Approaching him with much grief and wailing they squat on their heels and cover their faces with their hands, and with loud cries and pleadings seek vengeance of the chief for their dead...
The Indians use a device for capturing deer which we had never seen before. They know how to fit the skins of the largest deer they have been able to catch to their own bodies in such a way that, with its head adjusted to their head, they can look through the eye-holes as if through a mask. Thus arrayed they approach as near as possible to the unsu...
At the time of year when they are in the habit of holding a communal feast the cooks are specially selected for the task. First of all they place over thick logs a large, round, earthen vessel which they know how to make and fire so precisely that water can be boiled in it as well as in our cauldrons. They light a fire under it, one of them holding...
Every year, a little before their spring (at the end of February, in fact), the chief Outina’s subjects take the skin, complete with antlers of the biggest stag they have been able to catch. They stuff it with all kinds of the choicest plants that their land produces, sew it up again, and deck the horns, the throat, and the rest of the body with th...
long way from the place where our fort was built there are high mountains, called the Apalatci in the Indian language, where, as may be seen from the map, three large streams rise and wash down silt in which a lot of gold, silver, and copper is mixed. For this reason those who live in that area make channels in the river beds, so that the silt, whi...
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville was an explorer, colonial administrator, and Lieutenant in the French Navy during the Nine Years' War and the Chickasaw Wars. He was known as the “Father” of Louisiana and the French settlement of New Orleans.
Le Moyne. Illustrations of the French Voyage to the New World in 1564. The Spaniards, having made several disastrous expeditions into Florida, had left it for a time unmolested. The French Protestants, attempting to colonize under Ribaud, built Charlefort at Port Royal in 1562, and Fort Caroline under Laudonnière, at the River May (now
Le Moyne's Florida This 1591 text by Theodor de Bry contains an account of expeditions by French Huguenots to Florida and includes drawings by Jacques Le Moyne, a French artist and member of Jean Ribault's New World expedition.
Le Moyne & De Bry. In 1586, Rene de Laudonniere’s narratives on the French experience in Florida were published. The next year, Jacques le Moyne made plans to publish his own account, accompanied by his own artwork of the expedition’s experiences in Florida.
