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away to dance upon the shore. I went ashore to see them, and gave to each 

 a knife and some biscuit, which caused them to dance again better than 

 before. I next made them understand, as well as I could, that they should 

 show me the coast. After having drawn with a piece of charcoal the bay 

 and the cape of islands where we were, they made a figure with the same 

 charcoal of another bay,t which they represented very large, on which they 

 put six pebbles at equal distances, giving me to understand by so doing that 

 each of these stones denoted the habitation of a chief and his tribe. Then 

 they drew at the said Longue Bale a river§ that we had passed, which ex- 

 tends very far and has sand flats. These savages told us that those who 

 dwelt in this country cultivate the earth as the others whom we had seen 

 before. This place is in the latitude of 43 degrees and some minutes." 



On this voyage Champlain did not enter Gloucester harbor, but proceeded 

 to Nauset, Cape Cod, from which place he returned to St. Croix. In 1606, 

 however, he made another voyage, accompanied by the Sieur de Poutrin- 

 court, sailing from Port Royal, whither the settlers had removed from St. 

 Croix, Aug, 28th. They arrived at Saco Sept. 21, and continuing on their 

 course, on arriving at the, "Cap aux Isles," came to anchor at the entrance 

 of the harbor. The next day they came up the harbor, and landed. "We 

 saw," says the voyager, "some good ripe grapes, Brazil nuts, gourds, and 

 some roots which the savages cultivate. They gave us some of these in 

 exchange for little trifles we had given to them. They had already gathered 

 their harvest. We saw two hundred savages in the place, the chief of which, 

 Quiouhamenec, came to us with a cousin named Cohonepec, for whom we 

 made good cheer. Onemechin, a Saco chief, also came to see us, to whom 

 we gave a coat, which he soon gave away to another because it did not fit 

 him. We also saw a savage who had been wounded in the heel, while run- 

 ning towards the bark, and had lost so much blood that he fainted. Many 

 others came around him, singing some time before they would touch him ; 

 then, making certain gestures with their hands and feet, they moved his 

 head, and, upon their blowing upon him, he came to himself. Our surgeon 

 dressed his wound and he went gaily away; 'but, two hours after, he came 

 again,' adds L. Escarbot, 'the most jocund in the world, having put about 

 his head the binding cloth wherewith his heel was wrapped, for to seem the 

 more gallant.' 



"The next day, as some of our men were caulking our shallop, the Sieur 

 de Poutrincourt saw in the woods a number of savages who came with the 

 intention of making us some trouble. They were going to a little brook 

 which is upon the narrow part of a bank which leads to the mainland, where 

 our people wash their linen. As I was walking along this bank, they per- 

 ceived me, and to put a good face on the matter, because they saw that I 



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