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women beads and such other small trifles. Then where y child- 

 ren were, he cast rings, counters, and broaches made of tin, 

 whereat they seemed to be very glad. That done, our capitaine 

 commanded trumpets and other musicall instruments to be sound- 

 ed, which when they heard, they were very merie. Then we 

 tooke our leave and went away ; the women seeing that, put them 

 selves before to stay us, and brought us out of their meates that 

 they had made readie for us, as fish, pottage, beanes, and such 

 other things, thinking to make us eate, and dine in that place ; 

 but because the meates were not to our taste we liked them not, 

 but thanked them, and with signes gave to understand that we 

 had no neede to eate. When we were out of the towne, diverse 

 of the men and women followed us, and brought us to the toppe 

 of the foresaid mountaine, which wee named Mount Roial, it is 

 about a quarter of a league from the towne. When as we were 

 on the toppe of it, we might discerne and plainly see thirtie leagues 

 about. On the north side of it there are many hilles to be 

 scene running west and east, and as many more on the south, 

 amongst and betweene the which the countrey is as faire and 

 as pleasant as possibly can be scene, being levell, smooth, and 

 very plaine, fit to be husbanded and tilled, and in the middest of 

 those fieldes we saw the river further up a great way then where 

 we had left our boates, where was the greatest and the swiftest 

 fall of water that any where hath beene scene which we oould 

 not pass, and the said river as great wide and large as our sight 

 might discerne, going southwest along three faire and round 

 mountaines th^t we sawe, as we judged about fifteene leagues 

 from us. Those which brought us thither tolde and shewed us, 

 that in the sayd river there were three such falles of water more, 

 as that was where we had left our boates ; but we could not 

 understand how farre they were one from another. Moreover they 

 shewed us with signes, that the said three fals being past, a man 

 might sayle the space of three monethes more alongst that river, 

 and that along the hilles that are on the north side there is a great 

 river, which (even as the other) cometh from the west, we thought 

 it to be the river that runneth through the countrey of Saguenay, 

 and without any signe or question mooved or asked of them, they 

 tooke the chayne of our capitaines w histle, which was of silver, 

 and the dagger-haft of one of our fellow mariners, hanging on his 

 side being of yellow copper guilt, and shewed us that such stuff'e 

 came from the said river, and that there be Agojudas, that is as 



