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 time. Ribaut passed St. Augustine and anchored off St. John's bar. Menendez followed and exchanged a few shots with Ribaut's vessels, and retired to the harbor of St. Augustine, where he landed his forces, occupying an Indian village called Selooe, which seems to have stood about half a mile north of the fort, upon a tidal creek.

OLD FORGE.

Ribaut, learning of the landing of Menendez's