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He coasted past several countries as far as Malebarre, but not finding a fit- 
ting place, he returned to his first settlement expecting some ship in which 
to return to France, Whilst he was in this position, the Sieur de Pont-Gravé 
of Honfleur, with a company of some forty men, arrived to aid him. On his 
arrival they considered together. This decided them to settle at a Port which 
the Sieur de Pontrincourt had asked of the said Sieur de Monts to settle on 
his return; he had called it Port Royal, and it is in the Baye Francaise [Bay 
of Fundy]. 
This determined upon, each one took down his house, and all were trans- 
ported to the new settlement. 
There is, happily, yet another contemporary account of these 
events, that by the historian Lescarbot, who, though not himself a 
witness of them, spent two winters at Port Royal, 1606-1608, with 
many of those, including Champlain, who had been at St. Croix 
Island with de Monts. Doubtless the events of that first winter were 
often discussed around the fires at Port Royal during the long winter 
evenings, and Lescarbot’s ready note-book must have been often in 
use. Lescarbot’s narrative shows more liveliness and imagination 
than Champlain’s, and contains many facts not in the latter’s works. 
The parts relating to our present subject, as given in the 1612 edition 
of his History, read thus :1— 
CHAP, ITU. 
[4607 <> dla vindrent MEN vne grande riviere (qui est proprement mer) 
où ilz se camperent en vne petite ile size au milieu de cette riviere, que ledit 
sieur Champlein avoit esté reconoitre. Et la voyant forte de nature, [461] & 
de facile garde, joint que la saison commencoit à se passer, & partant falloit 
penser de se loger, sans plus courir, ilz resolurent ide s’y arréter. Ie ne veux 
point rechercher curieusement les raisons des vns & des autres sur la reso- 
lution de cette demeure, mais je seray toujours d’avis que quiconque va en vn 
païs pour posseder la terre ne s’arréte point aux iles pour y estre prisonnier. 
Car avant toutes choses il faut se proposer la culture d’icelle terre. Et je 
demanderois volontiers comme on la cultiuera s’il faut a toute heure, matin, 
midi & soir passer avec grand’peine vn large trajet d’eau pour aller aux 
choses qu'on requiert de la terre ferme? Et si on craint l’ennemi, comment se 
sauvera celui qui sera au labourage ou ailleurs en affaires necessaires, estant 
poursuivi? car on ne trouve point toujours de bateau à point nommé, ni deux 
hommes pour le conduire. D’ailleurs notre vie ayant besoin de plusieurs com- 
modités, vne ile n’est pas propre pour commencer l’établissement d’vne colonie 
s’il n’y a des courans d’eau douce pour le boire, & le menage, ce qui n’est 
point en des petites iles. Il faut du bois pour le chauffage: ce qui n’y est 
point semblablement. Mais sur tout il faut avoir les abris des mauvais vents, 
& des froidures: ce qui est difficile de trouver en vn petit espace environné 
d’eau de toutes parts. Neantmoins la compagnie s’arréta là au milieu d’vne 

1 The following passages from Lescarbot agree in all essentials with the 
1612 edition, as kindly corrected for me by Mr. Paltsits ; but they differ in. 
some details of typography which could not be exactly rendered by the 
modern type. i 
