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see. The barricade being finished,t Sieur de Monts sent his barque” to notify 
the rest of our party, who were with our vessel in the Bay of St. Mary,’ to 
come to St. Croix. This was promptly done, and while awaiting them we 
spent our time very pleasantly. 
Some days lafter, our vessels* having arrived and anchored, all disem- 
barked. Then without losing time, Sieur de Monts proceeded to employ the 
workmen in building houses for our abode, and allowed me to determine the 
arrangement of our settlement. After Sieur de Monts had determined the 
place for the store-house, which is nine fathoms? long, three wide, and twelve 
feet high, he adopted the plan for his own house, which he had promptly built 
by our good workmen, and then assigned to each one his location. Straight- 
way, the men began to gather together by fives and sixes, each according to 
his desire. Then all set to work to clear up the island, to go to the woods, to 
make the framework, to carry earthand other things necessary for the 
building. 
Wihile we were building our houses, Sieur de Monts despatched Captain 
Fouques in the vessel of Rossignol,’ to find Pont Gravé at Canso, in order to 
obtain for our settlement what supplies remained. 
Some time after he had set out, there arrived a small barque of eight tons, - 
in which was du Glas of Honfleur, pilot of Pont Gravé’s vessel, bringing the 
Basque shipmasters who had been captured by the above Pont while engaged 
in the fur-trade, as we have stated. Sieur de Monts received them civilly, 
and sent them back by the above Du Glas to Pont Gravé, with orders for him 
to take the vessel he had captured to Rochelle, in arder that justice might be 
done. Meanwhile, work on the houses went on vigorously and without cessa- 
tion; the carpenters engaged on the storehouse and dwelling of Sieur de Monts, 
and the others each on his own house, as I was on mine, which I built with 
the assistance of some servants belonging to Sieur d’Orville® and myself. It 
1 It thus appears that the little islet, now vanished, served as a temporary 
fort for the safety of the party after their barque was sent away. 
? This barque is frequently mentioned iin the narrative. What is doubit- 
less a picture of it is given on Champlain’s map (Fig. 8) to the northward of 
the island. 
* Still so called, on the coast of Nova Scotia. It will be remembered that 
the vessel with the larger part of the men had been left at St. Mary’s Bay, 
while de Monts and Champlain, with a few men, in a barque of eight tons, 
had explored the coasts and reached St. Croix Island. 
* The vessel left at St. Mary’s Bay (of which what is doubtless intended 
as a picture is given on Champlain’s map, Fig. 8), and that of one Rossignol 
(see note 7 below). 
5 The fathom was nearly seven feet (see earlier, note 6 on page 155). 
° A fuller description of de Monts’ house, and other particulars about the 
settlement not mentioned by Champlain, are given by Lescarbot, as shown 
later, page 183. Compare also the accompanying plan of the settlement (Fig. 9). 
* This vessel had been captured on the Nova Scotia coast while engaged 
in illicit trading, and had doubtless been brought to St. Croix Island with the 
vessel from St. Mary’s Bay. 
® De Monts possessed by his charter the sole right of trade with the natives 
in this region: hence the Basque captains were poachers. 
° This is the Sieur D’Orville, whose name has been wrongly guessed to have 
been corrupted into the Devils of Devils Head (see earlier, page 146). 

