18 The Beginning of British Honduras
to France with Laudonniere, some went to the Lamanay-
Cockscomb area in the Bay of Honduras. The Huguenots
always approached Florida through the Caribbean and the
Yucatan Channel, and as some of the early Spanish navigators
did mistake the Yucatan peninsula for the Florida peninsula
it was but natural at that time that the Huguenots should
have been similarly attracted by certain topographical re-
semblances.
 The Elizabethans not only availed themselves of the ser-
vice of the Venetian and Genoese shipwrights and seamen of
Bristol but of the French seamen who had experience in
American waters. When in London in 1563, Jean Ribot was
offered to turn his colony over to Thomas Stukeley. Laudon-
niere was landed at Swansea by a French vessel after the mas-
sacre, and he went to London where Sir Walter Raleigh and
Richard Hakluyt gave monetary assistance for the publica-
tion of his narrative of the French in the Floridas. Sir Walter
Raleigh had fought on the Huguenot side in the religious
wars in France, was at Jarnac, witnessed the retreat from
Moncontour, and was in Paris during the Massacre of St.
Bartholomew in 1572 which was instigated by Catherine de
Medici and in which Admiral Coligny was killed. It was said
by Phillip II's enemies that he smiled only once in his life,
when he heard the news of this massacre.
 Jacques Le Moyne of Morgues, cartographer and draughts-
man to Laudonniere in his second expedition had made a
new descriptive map of what was then roughly called Florida,
and which was mentioned by Hakluyt in a letter to Sir Walter
Raleigh dated London, 1st May 1587. Jacques Le Moyne,
surnamed de Morgues, was then an aged Huguenot refugee
living in Blackfriars and this manuscript map was executed
at the expense of Sir Walter. In 1591 an amplified illustrated
edition of the map with pictures and views was published in
Frankfurt am Main where the great book fairs were held.
This map we have, but the earlier map is no longer extant,
yet there can be little doubt that in its time it influenced