The Lily and the Totem; or, The Huguenots in Florida

The Lily and the Totem by William Gilmore Simms is about various colonies of Coligni in North America. Excerpt: «MY DEAR HAMMOND: I very well know the deep interest which you take in all researches which aim to develop the early history of our State and country, and sympathize with you very sincerely in that local feeling which delights to trace, on your own grounds, and in your own neighborhood, the doubtful progress of French and Spaniard, in their wild passion for adventure or eager appetite for gold.»