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Title: A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, etc.
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557 Baxter, James Phinney, 1831-1921
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Publisher: New York : Dodd
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t of savages in canoes, who,with noisy demonstrations, swarmed about his boatin such numbers that he thought it prudent to frightenthem away by firing a gun over their heads, whichproduced the desired effect. Subsequently, however,he made friends with the principal chief by bestow-ing upon his naked majesty the appropriate presentof a hat, which, like a French dandys of the time,was red. The wind being unfavorable, Cartier kept his vesselmoored in the harbor of St. Martin, and passed severaldays exploring the waters beyond, where he found abay in which the heat was so oppressive that he ap-plied to it the title of Bay de Chaleur. The nativeswhom he encountered here were friendly and dis-posed to traffic, being probably Micmacs, who foundhere their summer fishing-grounds. Doubtless theywere familiar with the St. Lawrence, but they didnot reveal to him the entrance to that noble river, thediscovery of which would have gladdened his heart. The adventurers were charmed with the country 22
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MEMOIR OF JACQUES CARTIER which they here beheld; warmer than Spain andsurpassingly beautiful; bearing wild wheat barbed likerye, with kernels like oats, peas in profusion, pale andpurple gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, redroses and other pleasant flowers, with meadows richwith grass and broad lakes teeming with salmon —indeed, another Eden. Leaving Port St. Martin on the 12th, the shipsencountered heavy winds and were forced to return,seeking refuge at the mouth of a little stream, where,beset by thick fogs and heavy gales, one of the shipscame near being wrecked by the parting of her cable.Here Cartier encountered a miserable tribe of savages,of a different race from those hitherto seen, engagedin taking mackerel in hempen nets. Although theyhad no furs to give in return he made them presents,which they received with almost delirious joy. Atthis point Cartier for the first time introduces us tothe maize, which he denominates millet as large aspeas, and even chats of figs,

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