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A18057	A shorte and briefe narration of the two nauigations and discoueries to the northweast partes called Newe Fraunce: first translated out of French into Italian, by that famous learned man Gio: Bapt: Ramutius, and now turned into English by Iohn Florio; worthy the reading of all venturers, trauellers, and discouerers; Voyages. 1 and 2. English	Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557.; Florio, John, 1553?-1625.	1580 (1580)	STC 4699; ESTC S104896	60,030	90

vpon his legs that is sicke moreouer they told vs y t the vertue of that trée was to heale any other disease the trée is in their language called AMEDA Our Captaine presently caused some of that drinke to be made for his men to drinke of it but there was none durste taste of it excepte one or two who ventured the drinking of it onely to taste and proue it the other séeyng that did the like and presently recouered their health and were delyuered of that sickenesse and what other disease soeuer in suche sorte that there were some hadde béene diseased and troubled wyth the French Pockes foure or fiue yeares and wyth thys drinke were cleane healed After thys medicine was founde and proued to be true there was suche strife aboute it who shoulde be firste to take of it that they were readye to kill one another that a trée as bigge as anye Oake in Fraunce was spoyled and lapped bare and occupyed all in fiue or sixe dayes and wroughte so well that if all the Phisitions of Mountpelier and of Louaine hadde béene there wyth all the drugges of Alexandrîa they woulde not haue done so muche in one yeare as that trée dydde in sixe dayes and didde so preuaile that as manye as vsed of it by the grace of GOD recouered their health ¶ Howe the Lorde Donnacona accompanyed with Taignoagny and dyuers others fayning that they woulde goe to hunt Stags and other wilde Deere taryed out twoo moneths and at theyr returne broughte a greate multitude of people with them that we were not wont to see before CHAP. 16. WHilest that disease lasted in our ships the Lord Donnacona Taignoagny with many others fayning that they would go catch Stags and Déere which is in their tongue called Aiounesta and Asquenoudo bycause the Ice and Snow was not so broken along the riuer that they coulde saile it was tolde vs of Domagaia and others that they woulde stay out but fortnight and we beléeued it but they stayed aboue two moneths whych made vs mistrust that they had bin gone to raise the Country to come againste vs and doe vs some displeasure wée séeyng oure selues so weake and faint Albeit we had vsed such diligence and pollicie in our● Forte that if all the power of the country had bin aboute it they coulde haue done nothyng but looke vpon vs and whylest they were forthe manye of the people came daylye to our shippes and brought vs fresh meate as Stags Déeres Fishes with diuers other things but helde them at suche an excessiue price that rather than they would sell them anye thing cheape many times they woulde carry them backe againe bycause that yeare the Winter was very long they had some scarcitie and néede of them ¶ How Donnacona came to Stadagona againe with a greate number of people and bycause he would not come to visite our Captaine fayned himselfe to be sore sicke whiche he did onely to haue the Captaine come and see him CHAP. 17. ON the one and twentith of Aprill Domagaia came to the shoare side accompanyed with dyuers lusty and strong men such as we were not wont to sée and tolde vs that their Lord Donnacona woulde the next daye come and sée vs and bring great store of Déers fleshe and other things with him The next day he came and brought a greate number of men in Stadagona to what end and for what cause we knew not but as the prouerb saith he that takes héede and shields him selfe from all men maye happe to scape from some for wée had néed to looke about vs cōsidering how in nūber we were diminished and in strength greatlye weakened long of our sicknesse we had bene troubled withall that we were constrayned to leaue one of our shippes in the sayde Port of the Holy Crosse Our Captain was warned of their comming and how they had brought a great number of mē with them for Domagaia came to tel it vs and durst not passe the riuer that was betwixt Stadagona and vs as he was wonte to doe wherevpon we mistrusted of some treason Our Captain séeing this sent one of his seruantes to them accompanied with Iohn Poulet being beste beloued of those people to sée who were there and what they dyd The sayde Poulet and the other faygned onely to be come to visite Donnacona and bryng him certaine presentes bycause they hadde bene togither a good while in the sayde Donnaconas Towne So soone as he hearde of their comming he gotte hymselfe to bedde fayning to be verye sicke That done they wente to Taignoagny hys house to sée him and wheresoeuer they wente they sawe so manye people that in a manner one coulde not styrre for an other and suche menne as they were neuer wonte to sée Taignoagny would not permitte oure menne to enter in anye other housen but styll kepte them companye and broughte them halfe way to our ships and tolde that if it would please our Capitaine to sh●we him so muche fauoure as to take a Lord of the Country people whose name Agonna of whom he hadde receyued some displeasure and carrye hym wyth hym into Fraunce he shoulde therefore for euer be bounde vnto hym and woulde doe for hym whatsoeuer he coulde possible and would do for him whatsoeuer he woulde commaund him and bade the seruaunt to come againe the nexte daye and bryng an aunsweare Oure Capitayne béeyng aduertised of so manye people that were there not knowyng to what ende purposed to playe a pretty prancke that is to saye to take theyr Lorde Donnacona Taignoagny Domagaia and some more of the chiefest of them prisoners in so muche as before he had purposed to bring them into Fraunce to shewe vnto our King what he hadde séene in those Westerne partes and maruailes of the worlde for that Donnacona had tolde vs that he hée hadde béene in the Countrey of Saguenay in whych are infinite Rubies Golde and other riches and that there are white menne who clothe themselues wyth wollen cloth euen as wée doe in Fraunce The sayde Lorde was an olde manne and euen from hys chyldehoode hadde neuer lefte off nor ceased from trauayling into straunge Countreys as well by Seas and Ryuers as by Lande The sayde Powlet and the other hauing tolde oure Capitayne theyr Embassage and shewed hym what Taignoagny hys wyll was the nexte daye hée sente hys seruaunt agayne to bidde Taignoagny come and sée hym and shewe what ●ée woulde for hée shoulde bée verye well entertayned and also parte of hys wyll shoulde bée accomplyshed Taignoagny sente hym worde that the nexte daye hée woulde come and bryng the Lorde Donnacona wyth hym and hym that hadde so offended hym whyche hée dydde not but stayed two dayes in whyche tyme none came from Stadagona to oure Shyppes as they were wont to doe but rather fledde from vs as if wée woulde haue slayne them so that then wée playnely perceyued theyr knauery But when they vnderstoode that those of Sidatin did frequent our

riuer in an Iland that lyeth ouer against Saguenay where they had bene the night before as they were going a warfaring in Honguedo with two hundereth persons men women and children who being all asléepe in a ●ort that they had made they were assaulted by the saide Toudamans who put fire rounde aboute the ●ort and as they would haue come out of it to saue themselues they were al slaine onely fiue excepted who escaped For which losse they yet sorrowed shewing with signes that one day they woulde be reuenged that done we came to our shippes againe ¶ The manner how the people of that Country liue and of certaine conditions of their Faith manners and customes CHAP. 10. THis people beléeue no whit in God but in one whō they ca● Cudrua●gni the● say that often he speaketh with thē and telleth them what weather shall followe whether good or badde Moreouer they say that when he is angrye wyth them hée casteth duste into theyr eyes they beléeue that whē they die they go into the Stars and thence by little and little descend downe into the Horizon euen as the Stars doe and y e then they go into certaine gréene fieldes full of goodly faire pretious trées floures and fruites After that they had giuen vs these things to vnderstand we shewed them their errour and tolde that their Cudruaigni did but deceiue them for hée is but a Diuell and an euill spirite affirming vnto them that there is but one only God who is in Heauen and who giueth vs all necessaries being the creatour of all himselfe and that onely we must belieue in him moreouer that it is necessarie for vs to be baptized otherwise we are dampned into Hel. This and manye other things concerning our faith and religion we shewed them all whiche they did eas●ly belieue calling their Cudruaigni Agouiada so that very ernestly they desired and prayed our Captaine that he woulde cause them to be baptised and their Lorde Taignoagny Domagaia and all the people of the towne came vnto vs hoping to be baptised but bycause we did not throughely knowe theyr minde and that there was no bodie coulde giue them our beliefe and religion to vnderstande we excused our selues desiring Taignoagny and Domagaia to tell the reste of theyr Countreymenne that we woulde come againe another time and bring Ministers and Priestes with vs for without them they coulde not be baptised whiche they dyd easilye belieue for Domagaia and Taignoagny hadde séene many children baptised in Brytain while● they were there Whiche promise when they hearde they séemed to be verie gladde They liue in common togither and of such commodities as their Countrey yéeldeth they are indifferentlye well stoared the inhabitours of the Towne of _____ cloath themselues with the skinnes of certaine wilde beasts but verie miserably In Winter they weare hosen and shoes made of wilde beastes skinnes and in Sommer they goe barefooted They kéepe and obserue the rytes of matrimony sauing that euerye one weddeth two or thrée wiues whiche theyr husbandes being deade doe neuer marrye agayne but for the deathe of theyr husbandes weare a certayne blacke wéede all the dayes of their life besmearing all their faces with cole duste and grease mingled togyther almoste halfe a quarter of an inche thicke and by that they are knowen to be Widowes They haue a filthye and detestable vse in marrying of their maydens and that is thys they putte them all after they are of l●wfull age to marrie in a common place as harlots frée for euerie manne that will haue to doe wyth them vntill such tyme as they finde a matche Thys I saye bycause I I haue séene by experience manye housen full of those Damosels euen as our scholes are full of children in Fraunc● to learne to reade Moreouer the misrule and riot that they kéepe in those houses is verie greate for verie want only● they sporte and dallye togither shewing what soeuer God hathe sent them They are no men of greate labour They ploughe theyr groundes with certain péeces of wood as big as halfe a sworde on whiche grounde groweth theyr corne The call it Offici it is as bigge as our small Peason there is great quantitie of it growing in Brasil They haue also great store of muske Milions Pompons Gourdes Cowcombers Peason and Beanes of euerye coloure yet differing frō ours There groweth also a certain kind of Herb wherof in Sommer they make greate prouision for all the yeare making great accompt of it and only men vse of it and first they cause it to be dryed in the Sunne then weare it aboute their neck● wrapped in a little beastes skin made like a little bagge with a hollow péece of stone or wood like a pipe then when they please they make pouder of it and then put it in one of the endes of the sayd Cornet or pipe and laying a cole of ●re vppon it at the other ende sucke so long that they ●ll their bodies full of smoke till that it commeth out of their mouth and nostrils euen as out of the Tonnel of a Chimny They say that this doth kepe them warm and in health they neuer go without some of it about thē We our selues haue tryed the same smoke and hauing put it in our mouthes it ●ed that they had filled it with Pepper dust it is so hote The ●omen of that Countrey doe labour muche more than the men as well in fishing wherto they are greatly giuen as in ●illing and husbanding theyr groūds and other things as wel the mē as women and children are very much more able to resist colde than sauage beastes for we with our own eyes haue séene some of thē when it was coldest which cold was extr●eme raw and bitter come to our ships stark naked going vppon Snowe and Ise which thing séemeth incredible to them that haue not séene it When as the Snowe and Ise lyeth on the ground they take great store of wilde beasts as F●unes Stagges Beares Martons Hares and Foxes 〈◊〉 diuerse other sortes whose fleshe they eate rawe hauing 〈◊〉 dryed it in the Sunne or smoke and so they doe their fishe As farre forth as we coulde perceiue and vnderstande by these people it were a very easie thing to bring thē to some familiaritie and ciuilitie and make them learne what one woulde The Lord GOD for his mercies sake lesse there vnto his helping hande when hée séeth cause Amen ¶ Of the greatnesse and deapth of the sayd Riuer and of the sortes of Beastes Birdes Fishes and other things that we haue seene with the scituation of the place CHA. 11. THe sayd Riuer beginneth beyond the Iland of Thassumpcion ouer against the high Mountaynes of Honguedo and of the seauen Ilands The distance ouer from one side to the other is about 35. or 40. leagues In the middest it is aboue 100. faddome deepe The surest way to sayle vpon it is on the South side and towarde the North that is to