saw a man running after our boats that were going along the coast who made signes vnto vs that we shoulde retourne towarde the sayd Cape againe We séeing such signes began to tourne toward him but he séeing vs come began to flée so soone as we were come on shoare we set a knife before him and a woollen girdle on a little staffe and then came to our ships again That day we trended the sayde land about nine or ten leagues hoping to finde some good harborough but it was not possible for as I haue sayd alreadie it is a very low land enuironed round about with great shelues Neuerthelesse we went that day on shore in foure places to sée the goodly and swéete smelling trées that there were we founde them to be Cidrons Ewe-trées Pines white Elmes Ashes Willowes with manye other sortes of trées to vs vnknowen but without any fruit The groundes where no wood is are very faire and al full of peason white and red gooseberies strawberies blackeberies and wilde corne euen like vnto Rie that it séemeth to haue bene sowen and plowed This Countrey is of better temperature than any other that can be séene and very hote There are many Thrushes Stockdoues and other byrdes to be short there wanteth nothing but good harborough ¶ Of the Baie called Saint Lunario and other notable Baies and Capes of lande and of the qualitie and goodnesse of those groundes THe next day being the seconde of Iuly we discouered and had sight of land on the Northerne side towarde vs that dyd ioyne vnto the lande abouesayd all compassed about and we knewe that it had about * in déepth and as muche athwart we named it Saint Lunarios Baie with our boates we went to the Cape toward the North and founde the land and grounde so lowe that for the space of a league from land there was but halfe a faddome water On the Northeast side from the sayde Cape about seauen or eight leagues there is another Cape of lande in the middest whereof there is a Baie fashioned triangle wise verye déepe and as far as we could ken from it lieth Northeast The said Baie is compassed about w t sands and shelues about ten leagues from land and there is but one faddome water from the saide Cape to the banke of the other ther is about fiftéene leagues We being a crosse the sayde Capes discouered another lande and Cape and as farre as we coulde ken it lay North by East All that night the weather was very ill and great windes so that we were constrained to heare a small sayle vntill the next morning being the thirde of Iuly that the winde came from the West and we sayled Northwarde to haue a sight of the lande that we had left on the Northeast side aboue the lowe landes among whiche high and lowe landes there is a Gulfe or Breach in some places about sixe and twenty faddome déepe and fiftéene leagues in breadth with varietie of landes hoping to finde some passage thyther we went euen as the passage of the Castels The sayde gulfe lyeth Easte Northeast and West Southwest The grounde that lyeth on the South side of the sayde gulfe is as good and easie to be wrought and full of as goodly fieldes and meadowes as anye that euer we haue as plaine and smoothe as anye die and that which lyeth on the North is a Countrey altogither hillie full of woods and very high and great trées of sundry sortes among the rest there are as goodly Ceders and Firre trées as possibly can be séene able to make mastes for ships of thrée hundered Tunne Neyther did we sée anye place that was not full of the sayde trées excepted two onlye that were full of goodly medowes with two very faire Lakes The middest of the sayde Baie is seauen and fourtie degrées and halfe in latitude ¶ Of the Cape of Hope and of Saint Martins Creeke howe seuen boats ful of wilde men came to our boate wold not retire themselues but being terrified with our Colubrins and lanches we shot at them they fled with great hast THe Cape of y e said South land was called The Cape of Hope through the hope that there we had to finde some passage The fourth of Iuly we went along y e coast of y e sayd land on the Northerly side to finde some harborough where we entred into a Créeke altogither open on y e South where there is no succour against y e wind we thought good to name it S. Martines Creeke Ther we stayed frō the fourth of Iuly vntil the twelfth while we were there on Monday being the sixth of y e month seruice being done we w t one of our boates went to discouer a Cape point of lande y t on the Northerne side was about seauen or eight leagues from vs to sée whiche way it did bend being within halfe a league of it we sawe two cōpanies of boats of wilde men going frō one land to the other theyr boates were in nūber about fiue fortie or fifty One parte of the whiche came to the sayde pointe and a great number of the mē went on shore making a grét noyse beckning vnto vs that we shoulde come on lande shewing vs certaine skinnes vppon péeces of Woodde but bicause we hadde but one onely boate we woulde not goe to them but went to the other side lying in the sea they séeing vs flée prepared two of their boats to follow vs with whiche came also fiue more of them that were comming from the sea side al which approched néere vnto our boate dauncing and making many signes of ioye and myrth as it were desiring our friendship saying in theyr tongue NAPEV TONDAMEN ASSVRTAH with manye other that we vnderstoode not But bicause as we haue said we had but one boate we wold not stande to theyr curtesie but made signes vnto them that they should turne backe which they would not do but with great furye came toward vs and sodainely with their boates compassed vs aboute and bycause they woulde not awaye from vs by any signes that we coulde make we shotte of two péeces among them whiche did so terrifie them that they put themselues to flight towarde the sayde pointe makyng a great noyse and hauing stayde a while they began a new euen as at the first to come to vs againe being come néere our boate we strucke at them with two launces which thing was so great a terrour vnto them that with greate hast they began to flée and would no more follow vs. ¶ How the sayde men commming to our shippes and our men going toward them both parties went on land and how the saide wilde men with great ioye beganne to traficke with our men THe next daye part of the sayde wilde men with nine of their boates came to the point and entrance of the créek where we with our ships were at road We being aduertised of theyr cōming went
South-east and North-weast til Wensday that we saw another Cape where the land beginneth to bend toward y e East we went alongst it about 15. leagues then doth the land begin to turne Northward About thrée leagues frō the sayd Cape we sounded and found 12. faddome water The said lands are plaine and the fairest and most without woods that we haue séene with goodly gréene féelds and medowes we named the said Cape S. Aluise Cape bycause that was his day it is 49. Degrées and a halfe in Latitude and in Longitude * On Wensday morning we were on the East side of the Cape and being almost night we went North-eastward for to approch néere to the said land which trēdeth North and South From S. Aluise Cape to another called Momerancies Cape about fiftéene leagues the lande beginneth to bende Northweast About thrée leagues from the sayd Cape we woulde néedes sounde but we could finde no ground at 75. faddome yet went we alongst the sayd land about tenne leagues to the Latitude of 50. degrées The Saturday following being the first of August by Sunne rising we had sight of certayne other landes lying North and North-east that were very high and craggie and séemed to be mountaynes betwéene which were other low lands with Wooddes and Riuers we wente aboute the sayde landes as well on the one side as on the other still bending North-weast to sée if it were either a Gulfe or a passage vntill the fifth of the moneth The distance from one land to the other is about fiftéene leagues The middle betwéene them both is 50. degrées and a thirde part of one in Latitude We had much ado to go fiue miles farther the winds were so great and the tide against vs. And at fiue miles end we might playnely sée and perceyue land on both sides whiche there beginneth to spreade it selfe but bycause we rather-fell than gote way against the wind◠we went toward land purposing to goe to another Cape of land lying Southwarde which was the farthermost out into the Sea that we could sée about fiue leagues from vs but so soone as we came thither we founde it to be nought else but Rockes stones and craggie cliftes such as we had not found any where that we had sayled Southwarde from S. Iohns Cape and then was the tide with vs which caryed vs against the winde Westwarde so that as we were sayling along the sayd coast one of our Boates touched a Rocke and suddainely went ouer but we were constrayned to leape out for to direct it on according to the tide ¶ How after we had agreed and consulted what was best to bee done wee purposed to returne from S. Peeters straight and from Tiennots Cape AFter we had sayled along the sayd coast for the space of two houres behold the tyde began to turne againste vs with so swift and raging a course that it was not possible for vs with thirtéene oares to rowe or gette one stones cast farther that we were constrayned to leaue our Boates with some of our men to gard them and tenne or twelue men went on shoare to the sayd Cape where we found that the land beginneth to bend South-weast whiche hauing séene we came to our Boates againe and so to oure Shippes whiche were still readie rigged hoping to goe forward but for all that they were fallen more than four leagues where we had lefte them where so soone as we came we assembled togither all our Captaynes Maysters and Marriners to haue their aduice and opinion what was best to be done and after that euery one had sayd considering that the Easterly windes beganne to beare sway and blow and that the floud was so great that we did but fall and that there was nothing to be gotten and that stormes and tempestes beganne to puffe in those new Countreys and that we were so farre from home not knowing the perils and dangers were behind for eyther we must agrée to turne and come backe againe or else to stay there all the yeare Moreouer we did consider that if an exchange of the Northerne windes did take vs it were not possible for vs to depart thence All which opinions being heard and considered we altogither determined to addresse oure selues homeward Now bycause vpon Saint Peeters day we entred into the sayde straighte we named it Saint Peeters Straight We sounded it in many places in some we found 70. faddome water in some 50. and néere the shoare but 30. and cléere ground From that day till Wensday following we had a good and prosperous gale of wind that we trended the sayd land about on the North East South-east Weast and North-weast sides for such is the situation of it excepted one Cape of low lands that bendeth towarde South-east about 25. leagues from the straight In this place we sawe certayne smokes that the people of the Countrey made vppon the sayd Cape but bycause the winde blew vs towarde the coast we went not to them whiche when they saw they came with two Boates and twelue men vnto vs and as fréelie came vnto our Shippes as if they had bin French men and gaue vs to vnderstande that they came from the greate Gulfe and that Tiennot was their Captayne who then was vpon that Cape making signes vnto vs that they were going home to their Countreys where we were come from with our Shippes and that they were laden with Fish We named the sayd Cape Tiennots Cape From the saide Cape all the lande trendeth East South-east and West Northwest All the land lyeth low very pleasant enuironed with sand where the sea is entermingled with marishes and shallowes the space of twentie leagues then doth the land begin to trend from Weast to East North-east altogither enuironed with Ilands two or thrée leagues from land in whiche as farre as we could sée are many dangerous shealues more than foure or fiue leagues from land ¶ How that vpon the ninth of August we entred within White Sands and vpon the fifth of September we came to the port of S. Malo FRom the said Wensday vntill Saturday following we had a great wind from the South-weast whiche caused vs to draw East North-east on which day we came to the Easterly partes of the new land betwéene the Barnes and the Doble Cape There beganne great stormie winds comming from the East with great rage wherefore we coasted the Cape North North-weast to searche the Northerne parte which is as we haue sayd all enuironed with Ilands and being néere the said Ilands and land the wind turned into the South which brought vs within the said gulfe so that the next day being the ninth of August we by the grace of God entred within White Sands And this is so much as we haue discouered After that vpon the fiftéenth of August being the feast of the Assumption of our Lady after that we had heard seruice we altogither departed from the porte of White Sands and with a happie and
named Margaulz And albeit the said Ilandâ— be 14. leagues from the maine lande notwithstanding Beares come swimming thither to eate of the saide Byrdes and our men founde one there as greate as any Cowe and as white as any Swanne who in their presence leapt into the sea and vpon Whitson-monday folowing our voyage towarde the lande we mette hir by the way swimming towarde lande as swiftly as wée coulde saile so soone as we sawe hir we pursued hir with our boates and by maine strength tooke hir whose flesh was as good to be eaten as the fleshe of a Calfe of two yeares olde The Wednesday following beyng the 27. of the moneth we came to the entrance of the Bay of the Castels but bycause the weather was ill and the greate store of Ice wée founde we were constrayned to enter into an harborough about the saide entraunce called Carpunt where bycause wée could not come oute of it we stayed till the 9. of Iune that thence wée departed on hope with the aide of God to saile further than the said Carpunt which is in latitude 51. degrées ¶ The description of the newe founde lande from Cape Razo to the Cape of Degrade THe lande from Cape Razo to the Cape of Degrade whiche is the point of the entrance to the Bay that trendeth from head to head toward North northest and South southweast al this part of land is parted into Ilands one so néere the other that there are but small riuers betwéene them thorowe the whyche you may passe with little boates and therfore there are certaine good harbourghs among whyche is that of Carpunt and that of Degrade In one of these Ilands that is the highest of them all béeyng on the toppe of it you maye playnely sée the two lowe Ilandes that are neare to Cape Razo from whence to the Porte of Carpunt they counte it twentie and fiue leagues and there are twoo entraunces thereat one on the East the other on the South side of the Iland But it is to be noted that from the side and pointe of the Easte bycause that euerye where there is nothing else but shelues and the water is very shallowe you muste goe aboute the Ilande towarde the West the length of halfe a Cable or thereaboute and then to goe towarde the South to the said Carpont Also you are to take héede of thrée Shelues that are in the Chanel vnder the water and towarde the Iland on the Easte side in the Chanell the water is about two faddome déepe and cleare grounde The other trendeth toward East northeast and on the West you may go on shoare ¶ Of the Ilande whiche now is called Saint Katherins Ilande GOing from the Point of Degrade and entring into the sayde Baye towarde the Weast and by North there is some doubt of two Ilandes that are on the right side one of the whiche is distant from the saide pointe 3. leagues and the other 7. either more or lesse than the first beyng a lowe and plaine land and it séemeth to be parte of the maine lande I named it Saint Katherines Ilande in which toward Northeast there is verye drye soile but aboute a quarter of a league from it very ill ground so that you muste goe a little about The saide Iland and the Porte of Castelles trend towarde North northeast and South southweast and they are about 15. leagues asunder From the saide Porte of Castels to the Porte of Gutte whyche is in the northerne parte of the said Bay that trendeth towarde East northeast and Weast southweast there are twelue leagues and an halfe and aboute two leagues from the Porte of Balances that is to say the thirde parte athwarteth the sayde Bay the deapth being sounded it is about 18. faddoâ— and from the said Porte of Balances to the White Sands 〈◊〉 Weast southweast there is 15. leagues but you must â—ike héede of a shelfe that lyeth about 3. leagues outward from the sayd White Sands on the Southweast side aboue water like a Boate. ¶ Of the place called White Sandes of the Ilande of Brest and of the Ilande of Byrdes the sortes and quantitie of Byrdes that there are founde and of the Porte called the Islettes WHite Sandes is a Roade in the whiche there is no place garded from the South nor Southeast But towarde South southweast the said roade there are two Ilandes one of the which is called Brest Iland and the other the Ilande of Byrdes in whiche there is great store of Godetz Crowes with red beakes and redde féete they make their néestes in holes vnder the ground euen as Connies A point of land being passed about a league from White Sands there is a Port passage found called the Islettes a better place than White Sandes and there is great fishing From the saide Porte of the Islettes vnto another called Brest the circuite is aboute ten leagues This Porte is in latitude 51. degrées and 55. minutes and in longitude * From the Islettes to that place there are many other Ilandes and the saide Porte of Brest is also amongst those Ilandes Moreouer the Ilands doe compasse more than 3. leagues from the said Brest beyng lowe and ouer them are the other landes aboue mentioned séene ¶ Howe we wyth our Shippes entred into the Porte of Brest and sayling onwarde towarde the Weast we past amidst the Islettes which were so many in number that it was not possible to tel them and how we named theÌ„ the Islettes VPon the 10. of Iune we with our Ships entred into the Port of Brest to furnish our selues with water and wood and to make vs readye to passe the saide Bay Vpon Saynt Barnabas day seruice being heard we with our boates went beyond the said Porte toward the Weast to sée what harboroughes were there we passed throughe the midddest of the Islettes which were so many in number that it was not possible they might be told for they continued about 10. leagues beyonde the saide Porte We to rest our selues stayed in one of them a night and there we found greate store of Duckâ— egges and other byrdes that there doe make their neastes we named them all the Islettes ¶ Of the Porte called S. Antonies Porte S. Seruans Porte Iames Carthiers Porte of the riuer called S. Iames of the customes and apparell of the inhabitors in the Iland of White Sandes THe next day we passed the saide Ilandes and beyonde them all we found a good Hauen whyche we named S. Antonies Hauen and howe one or two leagues beyonde we founde a little riuer toward the Southwest coast that is betwéene two other Ilandes and is a good harborough There we sette vppe a Crosse and named it S. Seruans Porte and on the Southwest side of the said Porte and riuer about one league there is a small Ilande as round as any Ouen enuironed about with many other little Ilandes that giue notice to the saide Portes
Dolphin THe nexte daye being the 25. of the moneth the weather was also stormie darke and windie but yet we sayled a part of the day toward Weast North-weast and in the euening we put our selues athwart vnto the second quarter that thence we departed then did we by our compasse know that we were North-weast and by Weast about seauen leagues and an halfe from the Cape of S. Iohn and as we were aboute to hoyse sayle the wind turned into the North-weast wherefore we went toward North-east about fiftéene leagues and came to thrée Ilands two of whiche are as stéepe and vpright as any wall that it was not possible to climbe them and betwéene them there is a little clift These Ilands were as full of Birds as any fielde or meddow is of grasse that there do make their nestes and in the greatest of them there was a great and infinite number of those that we cal Margaulz that are white and bigger than any Géese which were feuered in one part In the other were only Godetz Isoli but towarde the shoare there were of those Godetz and greate Apponatz like to those of that Ilande that we aboue haue mentioned we went downe to the lowest part of the least Iland where we kild aboue a thousand of those Godetz Apponatz We put into our Boates so many of them as wée pleased for in lesse than one houre we might haue filled thirtie such boates of them we named them the Ilands of Margaultz About fiue leagues from the sayde Ilandes on the Weast there is another Iland that is about two leagues in length and so much in breadth there did we stay all night to take in water and wood That Ilande is enuironed rounde about with sande and hath a very good roade about it thrée or four faddome déepe Those Ilands haue the best soyle that euer we saw for that one of their féelds is more woorth than all the new land We foūd i◠all full of goodly trées medowes champaines full of wild peason blomed as thicke as ranke and as faire as any can be séene in Brittayne that they séemed to haue bin plowed and sowed There was also great store of gooseberies strawberies damaske roses parseley with other very swéete and pleasant hearbes About the said Iland are very great beastes as great as Oxen which haue two great téeth in their mouths like vnto the Elephant and liue also in the Sea We saw one of them sléeping vpon the banke of the water we thinking to take it went to it with our Boates but so soone as he heard vs he cast himselfe into the Sea We also sawe Beares and Woolues we named it Brions Iland About it towarde South-east and North-weast there are great medowes As farre as I could gather and comprehend I thinke that there be some passage betwéene the new land and Brions land if so it were it would be a great shortning as well of the time as of the way if any perfection coulde be founde in it Aboute foure leagues from that Ilande towarde West South-weast there is firme lande that séemeth to be as an Ilande compassed aboute with little Ilands of sandes There is a goodly Cape which we named Cape Doulphin for there is the beginning of good groundes On the seauen and twentith of Iune we compassed the said landes about that lie Weast South-weast a farre off they séeme to bée little hilles of sande for they are but lowe landes we coulde neyther goe to them nor land on them bycause the winde was against vs. That daye we wente fiftéene leagues ¶ Of the Iland called Alezai and of S. Peeters Cape THe next day we went along the said land aboute tenne leagues till we came to a Cape of redde lands that is all craggie within the which there is a bracke looking toward the North. It is a very low Countrey There is also betwéene y e sea a certain poole a plaine fielde and frō that Cape of land◠and y e poole vntill to another Cape there is about 14. leagues The land is fashioned as it were halfe a circle all compassed about with sand like a ditch ouer which as farre as ones eye can stretch there is nothing but marrish groundes and standing pooles And before you come to the first Cape very néere the mayne lande there are two little Ilands Aboute fiue leagues from the seconde Cape towarde South weast there is another Iland very high and poynted which we named Alezai The first Cape we named S. Peeters Cape bycause vpon that day we came thither ¶ Of the Cape called Orleans Cape of the Riuer of Boates of wild mens Cape and of the qualitie and temperature of the Countrey FRom Brions Iland to this place there is a good sandie ground and hauing sounded toward South-weast euen to the Shoare about fiue leagues we found 12. faddome water and within one league 6. and very néere the shoare rather more than lesse But bycause we would be better acquaynted with this stonie and rockie ground we stroke our Sayles lowe and athwart The nexte daye being the last of the moneth saue one the winde blewe South and by East We sayled Westwarde vntill Tuesday morning at Sunne rising béeing the last of the moneth without any sighte or knowledge of any lande except in the euening towarde Sunne sette that we discouered a Land whiche séemed to bée two Ilandes that were beyond vs West south-weast about nine or tenne leagues All the next day till the nexte morning at Sunne rising we sayled Westward about fortye leagues and by the way we perceyued that the lande wée hadde séene like two Ilandes was firme lande lying South south-east and North north-weast till to a verye good Cape of lande called Orleans Cape All the sayde lande is lowe and playne and the fairest that may possibly be séene full of goodly meddowes and Trées True it is that we could finde no harborough there bycause it is all full of shelues and sandes We with our boates went on shore in many places and among the reste we entred into a goodly riuer but very shallow which we named the riuer of boats bycause that there we saw boats ful of wild men that were crossing the riuer We had no other notice of the sayde wilde men for the winde came from the Sea and beate vs againste the shore that we were constrained to retire oure selues with our boates toward our shippes till the next day morning at Sunne rising being the firste of Iuly we sayled Northeast in which time there rose great mystes stormes and therefore we strucke our sayles till two of the clocke in the after noone that the weather became cleare and there we had sight of Orleance Cape of another about seuē leagues from vs lying North and by East and that we called Wilde mens Cape On the Northside of this Cape aboute halfe a league there is a very dangerous shelf and banke of stones Whilest we wer at this Cape we
to the point where they wer with our boates but so soone as they sawe vs they began to flée making signes that they came to traficke with vs shewing vs suche skinnes as they cloth themselues withall whiche are of small value We likewise made signes vnto them that we wished them no euil and in signe thereof two of our men veÌ„tured to go on lande to them and carrie them kniues wyth other Iron wares and a red hat to giue vnto their Captain Which when they saw they also came on land and broughte some of their skinnes and so began to deale with vs séeming to be very glad to haue our iron wares and other things stil dauncing with many other ceremonies as with their handes to cast sea water on theyr heades They gaue vs whatsoeuer they had not kéeping any thing that they were constrained to go backe againe naked and made vs signes that the nexte day they would come againe and bring more skinnes wyth them ¶ How that we hauing sent two of our men on lande with wares there came about .300 wilde meÌ„ with great gladnes Of the quality of the Country what it bringeth forth and of the Baie called The Baie of heate VPoÌ„ Thursday being the eight of the moneth bicause the winde was not good to go out with our ships we set our boates in a readinesse to go to discouer the saide Baie and y e daye we wente fiftéene leagues within it The nexte day the winde and wether being faire we sayled vntil noone in which time we had notice of a great part of the sayd Baie and how that vpon the lowe landes there were other lands with high mountaines but séeing that there was no passage at al wée began to turne backe again taking our way along the coast and sayling we sawe certaine wilde men that stoode vpon the shore of a Lake that is among the lowe groundes who were making fires and smokes we went thither and founde that there was a Chanel of the sea that did enter into the Lake setting our boates at one of the banckes of the Chanell the wilde men with one of their boates came vnto vs brought vs péeces of Seales readie sodde putting them vpon péeces of wood then retyring themselues they woulde make signes vnto vs that they did giue them vs. We sente two men vnto them with Hatchets kniues beades other such like ware whereat they were very glad and by and by in clusters they came to the shore where we wer with their boates bringing with them skinnes and other such things as they had to haue of our wares They were more than thrée hundred men women and children some of the women which came not ouer we might sée them stande vp to the knées in water singing and dauncing the other that had passed the riuer where we were came verye friendlye to vs rubbing oure armes with their owne handes then woulde they lifte them vppe towarde heauen shewing manye signes of gladnesse and in such wise were we assured one of another that we very familiarly beganne to trafficke of whatsoeuer they had till they had nothing but their naked bodies for they gaue vs al whatsoeuer they had and that was but of small value We perceiued that this people might verie easily be conuerted to our religion They go from place to place They liue only with fishing They haue an ordinarie time to fish for their prouision The Countrey is hotter than the Countrey of Spaine and the fairest that can possibly be found altogither smooth and leauel There is no place be it neuer so little but it hathe some trées yea albeit it be sandie or else is ful of wilde corn that hath an eare like vnto Rie the corn is like Oates small Peason as thicke as if they had bin sown plowed white red gooseberies strawberies blackberies white red Roses w t many other floures of very swéete and pleasaÌ„t smel Ther be also many goodly medowes ful of grasse Lakes where gret plentie of Salmons be They cal a Hatchet in their toÌ„g Cochi and a knife Bacon we named it The Bay of Heate ¶ Of another nation of wilde men of their maners liuing and clothing WE being certified that there was no passage through the said Bay we hoised saile went froÌ„ S. Martines Creeke vpon Sonday being the twelfth of Iuly to go discouer further in the said Baie and went along the sea coast Estward about eightéene leagues till we came to the Cape of Prato where we found the tide very greate but shallow and the sea stormie so that we were constrained to draw toward shore betwéene the saide Cape and an Ilande lying Eastwarde about halfe a league from the Cape where we cast Ancker for that night The next morning we hoised sayle to trend y e said coaste about which lyeth North Northeast But there rose such a stormie and raging winde against vs that we wer coÌ„strained to come to the place againe from whence we were come There did we stay all that daye till the nexte that wée hoised vp sayle and came to the middest of a riuer fiue or sixe leagues from the Cape of Prato Northward and being ouerthwart the said riuer there arose againe a contrarie winde with great fogges and stormes So that we were constrayned vpon Tuisday being the fourtéenth of the moneth to enter into the riuer and there did we stay til the sixtéenth of the moneth loking for faire weather to come out of it on which day being Thursdaye the winde became so raging that one of our shippes lost an Ancker and we were constrayned to go vp higher into the riuer seauen or eighte leagues into a good harborough and ground y t we with our boates found out and through the euil weather tempest and darkenesse that was we stayed in the saide harborough till the fiue and twentith of the month that we coulde not come out in the mean time we sawe a greate multitude of wilde men that were fishing for Mackrels whereof there is great store Their boats wer about fortie and the persons what with men women and children two hundred which after they had haunted our coÌ„panie a while they came very familiarly with their boates to y e sides of our ships We gaue theÌ„ kniues combs beades of glas other triâ—â—es of smal value for which they made many signes of gladnesse lifting their handes vp to Heauen dauncing and singing in their boates These men may very wel truely be called Wilde bicause there is no poorer people in the world For I thinke al that they had togither besides theyr boates and nets was not worth fiue souce They go altogither naked sauing their priuities which couered with a little skinne and certaine olde skinnes that they cast vppon them Neyther in nature nor in language do they any whit agrée w t them we found first Their heads be altogither shauen except one bush of haire they suffer to
Germans Cape to the said Ilands is about xviij leagues a half at the ende of which ther is a goodly plot of grounde full of huge highe trées albeit the rest of the coast be compassed about w t sandes w tout any signe or shew of harboroughs til we came to Thiennots Cape which tendeth Northwest about vij leagues from y e forsaid Ilāds which Thiennots Cape we noted in our former voyage therfore we failed on all that night Weast Northwest til it was day then the winde turned again frō vs wherefore we wente to séeke a Hauen wherin we might harbor our ships by good hap found one fit for our purpose about vij leagues a half beyond Thiennots Cape and that we named S. Nicholas Hauen it lyeth amidst foure Ilandes that stretcheth into the sea Vpon the next we for a token set vp a woodden crosse But note by the way that crosse must be turned Northeast and then bending toward it leaue it on the left hand and you shall finde thrée fadome water and within the Hauen but two Also you are to take héede of two shelues that leane outwarde halfe a league All this coaste is full of quicke sandes and very daungerous albeit in sighte manye good Hauens séeme to be there yet is there nought else but shelues and sandes We staide and rested our selues in the sayde Hauen vntill the seauenth of August being Sundaye on whiche daye we hoysed sayle and came towarde lande one the neather side towarde Rabasts Cape distant from the sayd Hauen about twentie leagues North Northeast and South Southweast but the nexte daye there rose a stormie and a contrarie winde and therefore we coulde finde no Hauen there towarde the South Thence we wente coasting along toward the North beyonde the aboue-sayde Hauen aboute tenne leagues where we founde a goodly greate gulfe full of Ilandes passages and entraunces towarde what winde soeuer you please to bend for the knowledge of this gulfe there is a greate Ilande that is a Cape of the maine lande stretching somewhat further foorth than the others and aboute two leagues wythin the lande there is an Hill fashioned as it were an heape of corne We named the sayde Gulfe Saint Laurence hys Baie The twelfth of the sayde month we went from the sayd S. Laurence hys Bay or Gulfe sayling Westwarde and came to finde a Cape of maine lande on the Northside of the Baye that runneth from the saide Sainte Laurence his Baie about fiue and twentie leagues West and by South And of the two wilde men whiche we toke in our former voyage it was tolde vs that this was of the Band◠towarde the South and that there was an Ilande on the Southerlye parte of whiche is the waye to goe to Honguedo where the yeare before we hadde taken them in Canada and that two dayes iourney from the sayde Cape an Ilande began the Kingdome of Siguenay in the land◠Northwarde extending towarde Canada and aboute thrée leagues athwart the saide Cape there is aboue fiftie faddome déepe Moreouer I beléeue that there was neuer so many Whale◠séene as we sawe that day about the Cape The next daye after our Ladie day in August being the fiftéenth of the month hauing past those straightes where we had notice of certaine landes that we left toward the South whiche landes are full of very high hilles and therfore we named them The Ilands of the Assumption and one Cape of the sayd high countryes lyeth East north-easte and Weste south-west the distaunce betwéene which is about fiue twentie leagues The Countryes lying North maye playnely be perceyued to be higher thā the Southerly more than thirtie leagues We trended y e saide landes about towarde the South frō the said day vntyl Twesday noone following the winde being in the West and therfore we bended toward the North purposing to go and sée the land that we before had spyed Being arriued there wée founde the sayd Ilands as it were ioyned togither and lowe toward the Sea And the Northerly mountaines that are vpon the saide lowe Ilandes stretching Easte Weste and by Southe Our men tolde vs that there was the beginning of Saguenay and that it was land inhabited and that thēce commeth the redde Copper of them named CAIGNETDAZE There is betwéen the Southerly Ilands and the Northerly about 30. leagues distance and more thā 100. faddome depth The saide men did moreouer certifye vnto vs that there was the way and beginning of the gret riuer of Hochelaga a ready way to Canada which riuer the further it went the narower it came euen vntil to Canada and that then there was freshe water which went so farre vpwards that they hadde neuer hearde of any man had gone to the heade of it and that there is no other passage but with small boates Our Captayne hearing their talke and how they did affirm no other passage to be there woulde not at that time procéede any further tyll he had séene and noted the other Ilandes coast towarde the North which he had ommitted to sée after Saint Larance his gulfe bycause he would exquisitly know if in the Ilandes toward the South any passage had bin discouered ¶ How our Captain caused the shippes to retourne backe again only to know if in Saint Laurence gulfe there were any passage towarde the North. CHAP. 2. VPon the 18. of August being Wednesday our Captain◠caused his shippes to winde backe and bend toward the other shore so that we trended the sayd Northerly cost whiche runneth South-east North-west being fashioned like vnto halfe a bowe and is a very high land but yet not so high as that on the Southerly partes The Thursday following we came to seuen very high Ilandes whiche we named The round Ilands These Ilandes are distant from the others about fourtie leagues and stretche out into the Sea aboute thrée or foure leagues Aboute these there are goodly lowe groundes to be séene full of goodlye trées whiche we the Fryday following with our boates compassed aboute Ouerthwart these Ilandes there are diuerse sandie shelues more than two leagues into the sea very daungerous whiche at a a lowe water remaine almost dry At the furthest boundes of these lowe Ilands that containe about tenne leagues ther is a riuer of fresh water that with such swiftnesse runneth into the sea that for the space of one league within it the water is as freshe as anye fountaine water We with our boates entred into the saide riuer at the entraunce of whiche we foūd about one fadome water There are in this riuer many fishes shaped like horsses which as our wilde men told vs al the daye long lye in the water and the night on lande of which we sawe therein a great number The next day being the one and twentith of the month by breake of day we hoysed sayle and sayled so long about the sayde coaste that wée had sight of the Northerly partes of it
which as yet we had not séene and of the Iland of the Assumption which we had founde departing from the sayde land which thing so soon as we had done and that we were certifyed no other passage to be there we came to our shippe againe whiche we had left at the said Ilands where is a good harborough the water being about nine or ten faddome In the same place by occasion of contrarie winds and foggie mystes we were constrayned to stay not being either able to come out of it or hoyse sayle til the four twentith of the month On which day we departed came to a hauen on the Southerly coast about 80. leagues from the said Ilands This hauen is ouer against thrée flat Ilāds y t lye amidst a riuer bycause on the half way of y e sayd Ilands the said Hauen toward the North there is a verye great riuer that runneth betwéene the high low Ilands more than thrée leagues into the sea it hath many shelues there is not altogither one fadome water so that the place is very dangerous from bank to bancke of the saide shelues there is either xv or xx yardes All the Northerly cost rūneth East Northeast and South Southwest The saide hauen wherin we stayed is as it were but a sluce of the waters that rise by the floud and but of smal accompt we named them S. Iohns Isleetes bycause we founde them and entred into thē the day of the beheading of that Saint Aboute fiue leagues afore you come to the said hauen Westward there is no passage at al but only with little boates The hauen of S. Iohns Islettes dryeth vp all the waters that rise by flowing yea if it flowe a faddome The best place to harborough ships therin is on the South part of a certaine little Islande that is ouer against the sayde hauen whereby the bancke or shore of of the Iland riseth Vpon the first of September we departed out of the said hauen purposing to go towarde Canada and about 15. leagues from it towarde West Southwest amidst y e riuer there are thrée Ilandes ouer against the whiche the riuer runneth swift and is of a great depth it is that which leadeth and runneth into the Countrey and kingdome of Saguenay as by the two wilde men of Canada it was tolde vs. Thys riuer passeth and runneth along very high and stéepe hilles of bare stone where very little earth is and notwithstanding there is greate quantitie of sundrie sortes of trées that growe in the sayde bare stones euen as vppon good and fertile ground in such sorte that we haue séene some so great as well woulde suffise to make a maste for a shippe of fortie Tunne burden and as gréene as possible can be growing in a stonie rocke without any earth at all At the entraunce of the sayd riuer we mette with foure boates ful of wilde men whiche as farre as we coulde perceyue verye fearefullye came toward vs so that some of them went backe agayne the other came as neare vs as easilye they might heare and vnderstond one of our wilde men who tolde them his name and then toke acquaintaunce of them vpon whose word they came to vs. The nexte day being the seconde of September we came out of the riuer to goe to Canada and by reason of the Seas flowing the tide was verie swifte and daungerous for that on the South part of it there lye two Ilandes about whiche more than thrée leagues compasse lye manye greate stones and but two faddome water and the flowing amidst those Ilandes is verye vnconstante and doubtefull that if it hadde not bene for our boates we hadde bene in great dāger to loose our liues and coasting along the saide dry sands there is more than fiftéen fadome water About fiue leagues beyonde the riuer of Saguenay Southweast there is another Ilande more Northerly acrosse whiche are certaine highe péeces of lande and thereaboutes we thought to haue caste Ancker on purpose to staye the nexte tide but we could sound no ground by thrée score fadome within a flighte shoote from shoare so that we were constrayned to winde backe to the sayde Ilande where wée sounded againe and founde eightéene faddome The nexte mornyng we hoysed saile and wente thence sayling further on where wée hadde notice of a certayne kinde of fishe neuer to-fore of anye manne séene or knowen They are aboute the bignesse of a Purpois yet nothing like them of bodye verye well proportioned headed lyke Graye-houndes altogither as white as Snowe wythout anye spotte within which Riuer there is great quantitie of them they do liue altogyther betwéene the Sea and the freshe Water These of the Countrey call them ADHOTHVYS they folde vs that they be very sauorye and good to be eaten Moreouer they affirme none to be foūd else-wher but in that riuer The sixth of the month the weather being calme faire we went about fiftéene leagues more vpward into the riuer and there lighted on an Iland that looketh Northward and it maketh a little hauen or créeke wherin are many innumerable great Tortoyzes continuallye lying about that Ilande There are likewise great quantitie of the said Aphothuys taken by the inhabitours of the Coūtry so that there is as gret concourse and méeting in that place as is at Bordeous in Fraunce at euery tide This Iland is in length about thrée leagues and in bredth two and is a goodly and fertile plot of ground replenished with many goodly and great trées of manye sortes Among the rest ther are many Filburde trées which we found hanging full of them somewhat bigger and better in sauour than ours but somewhat harder and therefore we called it The Iland of Filburdes The seuenth of the month being our Ladies euen after seruice we went from that Ilande to goe vp higher into the riuer and came to the Fourteene Ilandes seauen or eight leagues from the Ilande of Filburdes where the Countrey of Canada beginneth one of which Ilandes is ten leagues in length and fiue in bredth greatlye inhabited of such men as onlie liue by fishing of suche sortes of fishes as the riuer affourdeth according to the seasō of them After we had cast Ancker betwéene the sayde Ilande and the Northerly coast we went on lande and tooke our two wilde men with vs méeting with many of those Countrey people who woulde not at all approch vnto vs but rather fledde from vs vntill our two men beganne to speake vnto them telling thē that they wer Taignoagny Domagaia who so soone as they had takē aquaintance of thē began greatly to reioyce dauncing and shewing many sorts of ceremonies and many of the chiefest of thē came to our boats brought many Eles other sorts of fishes with two or thrée burdens of great Millet wherwith they make their bread many gret mus◠milions The same daye came also manye other boates full of those Countreymen and