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“...grant of the Caribee Islands made by Charles I
to the Earl of Carlisle. Though the Dutch are said to have
visited the island and built a fort there at an earlier date, the j
EngUsh undoubtedly formed the first settlement in St. Lucia.
The crew of the Olive Blossom, after visiting Barbados, called j
there in 1605 ; and in 1638 settlers from Bermuda and St. Kitts,
under the command of Captain Judlee, landed in the island ; j
but they had trouble with the natives, who killed their Governor
and, smoking them out by burning red pepper, drove them from
it again. In 1650 two Frenchmen, Houel and Du Parquet, j
bought St. Lucia with Grenada and Martinique for ^1,660, and j
sent forty settlers to it under Rousselan, who married a Carib j
woman, thereby establishing friendly relations with the natives, j
On his death, however, they murdered three of his successors j
before the treaty of 1660 was signed, securing the Caribs from j
interference in Dominica and St. Vincent on condition that they 1
kept...”
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