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Cibo [Sj'ilney]. In this place are the greatest multitude of lobsters that euer we heard of: for we caught at one 

 hawle with a little draw net aboue 140. The fourth of luly in the morning we departed from Cibo. And the tiftli 

 we cast anker in a reasonable good harborow called New Port vnder an Island some eight leagues from Cibo, and 

 within three leagues from the English port [Louisbourg]. At this place in pursuing certain shallops of a ship of 

 Rochel, one of them came aboord, who told vs; that the Biskainer whom we sought was in the Euglish port with 

 two Biskainers more, and two ships of Rochel. Thereupon wee sent one of our men ia the Rochellers shallop to 

 parle with the admiral and others of our friends in the English port, reijuesting tlieiu ayd for tlie recouery of our 

 tilings, which the other ship called the Santa Maria of S. Vincent (whereof was Master lohannes de Ilarte, and 

 Pilot Adame de Lauandote) had robbed from the Chaneewell. To which they answered, that if we would come in 

 vnto them in peace, they would assist vs what they might. This answere we had ihe sixth day : and theseuenth 

 in the forenoone we arrived in the Euglish port, and cast anker aloofe from the other ships: which done, I went 

 aboord the Admirall, to desire the performance of his promise : who sent for lohannes de Harte, who was contented 

 to restore most of our things againe : whereupon I went aboord his ship to liaue them restored. This day and the 

 eighth I spent in procuring such things as they had robbed; but yet in the end we wanted a great part thereof. 

 Then we vvere briofo with them, and willed them either to restore vs the rest of our things which they had, or els 

 we would both inforce them to doe it, and also haue satisfaction for our victuals and merchandises which by their 

 means were lost in the Chaneewell. The ninth in the morning wee prepared our ship to goe neere vnto them. 

 Whereupon their Admirall sent his boat aboord, and desired to speake with me : then I went aboord vnto him, 

 and desired to haue our things wilh peace and (juietnesse, preferring to make him and the Masters of the two ships 

 of Rochel our vmpire, and what they should a<luise I would stand vnto. Hereupon he went aboord the otlier ship 

 to make peace ; but tliey would heare no reason, neither yet condescend to restore any thing els which they had 

 of ours. Then I desired that as I came in peace vnto them, they would so set me aboord my ship againe : which 

 they denied to do, but most vniustly detained me and Stephen van Herwicke who was with me. A wdiile after 

 our shallop came with foure men to know how I did, and to fetch nie aboord : but so soon as she came to the 

 Admirals ships side, his men entred, and took her away, detaining our men also as prisoners with vs. Then 

 presently all the three Biskainers made toward our ship, which was not carelesso to get the winde of them all; 

 and hauing by the mercy of God obtained the same, shee then stayed for them : but when tliey saw that they hail 

 lost their aduantage, tiiey presently turned their course, making as great haste iu againe as ihey did out before. 

 Afterwards I attempted twise to goe aboord, hut was still enlbreeù backe by the two other Bi.'^kaiuers, who sought 

 our lives so that in the end the Master of the Admirall was inforced to man his great boat to waft vs : and yet 

 notwithstanding they bent a piece of great ordinance at vs: for we were to passe by them vnto our ship : but we 

 rescued our shallop vnder our Masters great boat; and by that means imssod in safety. The next morning being 

 the tenth of the moneth, we purposed if the wind had serued our tnrne, to haue made them to repent their euill 

 dealing, and to restore vs our owne againe, or els to haue suncke their ships if we could. But the winde serued 

 not our turne for that purpose; but carried vs to sea: so that the same morning wee tooke our course toward the 

 bay of S. Laurence in Newfoundland : where wee hoped to finde a Spanish ship, which, as we had intelligence, did 



fish at that place The land of Cape Briton we found to bo somewhat like the Newfoundland, but rather 



better. Here toward the West end of it we saw the clouds lie lower than the hills : as we did also at Laurence 

 in Newfoundland. The Easterly end of the land of Cape Briton is nothing so high land, as the West, We went 

 on shore vpon it in ti-ue places : 1. At the bay where the Chaneewell was cast away : 2. At Cibo : 3. At a little 

 island between Cibo and the New port: 4. At the New port : and .5. At Port Ingles, or the iTnglish port." 



Four well known editions have appeared since 1589 of Richard Hakluyt's " Principall Navigations, Voy- 

 ages, Trafliques and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by sea or overland, &v." The first appeared in 

 1589 (George Bi.«hop and Ralph Newberie, London. 1 vol. sm. folio) The second in 1598-99-1600 with the original 

 suppressed expedition to Cadiz by Lord Essex, though it is wanting in some copies, (G. Bishop, 1Î. Newberie and 

 R. Barker, London, 3 vols. sm. fol. and 3 sm. folio in 2.) The third, in 1809-12, edited by R. H. Evans. (G. 

 "Woodfall, London, roy. 4to. 5 vols. The fourth, in 1885-90, edited by Edmund Goldsmid, V. R. H. S., (E & G. 

 Goldsmid, Edinburgh, 20 vols. roy. 8vo.) Tliis new edition which is well printed and careftilly edited, is based 

 upon that of 159S-99-J 600, Copies of the three first editions are now very rare and expensive. Quaritch in liis 

 most recent catalogue offers copies from £40 for the 2 ed. in 3 vols., sm. folio, to £14 for the Woodfall ed. (Nos. 191, 

 192, 193, 194, 195 in cat.) The Hakluyt Society of London, since its foundation in 1848 to 1888, have printed a 

 number of the more valuable voyages. See Quaritch, No. 238, for a complete list of all the publications of Ihe 

 Society to 1888. The copy in the Parliamentary Library at Ottawa is the edition of 1599-1600. The references in 

 these notes is to the Goldsmid edition, which I have compared with the original edition just named. 



(4.) The following is (Uiamplain's description of Cape Breton : 



" Ceste isle du cap Breton est on forme triangulaire qui a 80 lieues de circuit, et est la plus-part terre montag- 

 neuse, toutesfois en quelques endroits agréable. Au milieu d'icelle y a une manière de lac [Labrador, now le Bras d'or] 

 où la mer entre par le coste du nort quart du nordest, et du sud quart du suest, et y aijuantité d'isles remplies, de 

 grande nombre de gibier, et coquillages de plusieurs sortes, entre autres des Inustres qui ne sont de grande saveur. 

 En ce lieu y a plusieurs ports et endroits ofi l'on fait pesche de poisson, scavoir le jiort aux Anglais [Louisbourg] 

 distant du cap Breton environ deux a trois lieues : et l'autre Niganis IS ou 20 lieues plus au nort. Les Portugais 

 autrefois, voulurent habiter cet isle, et y passeient un hyver: mais la rigueur du temps et les froidures leur firent 

 abandonner leur habitations." (Chamjilain, ii, 280. Also iv. 107.) 



The best Canadian edition of Champlain's works is the following : 



"Œuvres de Champlain, publiées sous le patronage de l'Université Laval. Par l'abbé C. H. Laverdière, Pro- 

 fesseur d'histoire." (Quebec, 1870, 4 vols. 2 eds.) In this edition was printed for the first time the text of Cham- 

 plain's first American voyage, 1509-1602. It is a monument to the spirit and patiiotisni not merely of Laval 

 University and the Seminary of Quebec under whose patronage it was published, but of the publisher Geo. E. 



