St.Augustine.%--St.Augustine was founded by the Spaniards in order to keep out the French, who made two attempts to occupy the south Atlantic coast.

The first was that of John Ribault (ree-bo').

He led a colony of Frenchmen, in 1562, to what is now South Carolina, built a small fort on a spot which he called Port Royal, and left it in charge of thirty men while he went back to France for more colonists.

The men were a shiftless set, depended on the Indians till the Indians would feed them no longer, and when famine set in, they mutinied, slew their commander, built a crazy ship and went to sea, where an English vessel found them in a starving condition, and took them to London.
In 1564 a second party, under Laudonniere (lo-do-ne-ar'), landed at the St.Johns River in Florida, and built a fort called Fort Caroline in honor of Charles IX.

of France.