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the only non-European haunts of Sula hassana, have on 

 that account an especial interest, and also because of their 

 geographical position, for they are much more southerly 

 than any of the Gannet stations of Europe. In the matter 

 of temperature, however, there is, I believe, not a great 

 deal of difference. 



The earliest record of the Canadian Gannets known to 

 naturalists, is contained in the log of an adventurous French 

 navigator, the famous Jacques Cartier, who in 1534 sailed 

 from France for the New World. On the 10th of May this 

 intrepid sailor sighted the coast of Newfoundland, which 

 had been discovered some thirty-seven years before by 

 Cabot, and on the 21st he reached an island which could 

 have been none other than Funk Island. Thanks to the 

 late Professor Newton, I have been able to make use of 

 Cartier's original narrative, which is in Breton French, Cartier 

 having been a native of Brittany. *t 



* Cartier's portrait still hangs in the Town Hall of St. Malo. 



f " The first relation of Jacques Cartier " a3 contained in " The Principal 

 Navigations, Voyages, Traflfiques and Discoveries of the English Nation," 

 by Richard Hakluyt (1589). Hakluyt, in Professor Newton's opinion, 

 translated from the version by Ramusio, who was the first to publish any 

 account of Cartier's first voyage, which he did at Venice in!^ 1565. What 

 is called, adds Professor Newton, the " Relation origmale," supposed to 

 be in Cartier's own words, if not handwriting, was published at Paris in 

 1867, having been discovered shortly before. A good modern edition of 

 Hakluyt's Voyages was brought out by Maclehose and Sons, publishers 

 to Glasgow University, in 1904, which I have used. 



