[FN#11] No trace of this fort has been found. The old fort of which the
remains may be seen a little below Beaufort is of later date.
[FN#12] For all the latter part of the chapter, the authority is the
first of the three long letters of Rena de Laudonniere, Companion of
Ribaut and his successor in command. They are contained in the Histoire
Notable de la Floride, compiled by Basanier (Paris, 1586), and are also
to he found, quaintly "done into English," in the third volume of
Hakluyt's great collection. In the main, they are entitled to much
confidence.
[FN#13] Above St. John's Bluff the shore curves in a semicircle, along
which the water runs in a deep, strong current, which has half cut away
the flat knoll above mentioned, and encroached greatly on the bluff
itself. The formation of the ground, joined to the indicatons furnished
by Laudonniere and Le Moyne, leave little doubt that the fort was built
on the knoll.
[FN#14] I La Caille, as before mentioned, was Laudonniere's sergeant.
The feudal rank of sergeant, it will be remembered, was widely different
from the modern grade so named, and was held by men of noble birth.
Le Moyne calls La Caille "Captain."
[FN#15] Laudonniere in Hakinyt, III. 406. Brinton, Floridian Peninsula,
thinks there is truth in the story, and that Lake Weir, in Marion
County, is the Lake of Sarrope.
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