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"Thus was erected a triangular work, afterwards named Carolina.
The base of the triangle, looking westward, was defended by a small
ditch, and a wall of sods nine feet high. The side next the river was built
up with planks and fascines. On the southern side was a building after
the fashion of a citadel, which was for a granary to hold their provision.
The whole was for fascines and earth, except the upper part of the wall
for two or three feet, which was of sods. In the middle of the fort was a
roomy open space 18 yards long and as many wide. Midway on the
southern side of this space were the soldiers' quarters; and on the north
side was a building which was higher than it should have been, and was
in consequence blown over by the wind a little afterward. Experience
thus taught us that in the country, where the winds are so furious, houses
must be built low. There was also another open space, pretty large, one
side of which was closed in by the granary above mentioned, while on
the other side stood the residence of Laudonniere, looking out upon the
river, and with a piazza all around it. The principal door of this opened
upon the larger open space; and the rear door, upon the river. At a safe
distance from the works, an oven was erected; for, as the houses were
roofed with palm branches, they would very easily have caught fire."

Although the new colony appeared well favored by its environment
and its ready acceptance by the neighboring natives, it was soon beset by
troubles. Many of Laudonniere's followers were adventurous younger sons
of rich Huguenots who had come to the New World to seek gold. While
the land about the fort was fertile and the river full of fish,