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liking and consent of her father, he ravished her and took her to wife. 
Then ensued a great quarrel. Finally the girl is taken away from him and 
returned to her father. A great debate impended, had it not been that the 
said Bituani having complained of this injury to the Sieur de Monts, the 
others came to defend their cause, saying, that is the father assisted by his 
friends, that he would not entrust his daughter to a man who had not the 
industry to support her and the children which would result from the mar- 
riage. That as to him [Bituani] he saw nothing that he could do, that he 
loitered about the kitchen of the Sieur de Monts, and did not exert himself 
in hunting, and finally that he should not have the girl, and ought to be 
satitsfied with that which was past. The Sieur de Monts having heard 
both parties, remarked that he did not detain him [Bituani], that he was 
a good youth and should go a hunting to show what he could do. But for 
all that they would not restore the maid to him until he had shown in fact 
that which the Sieur de Monts had promised for him. Finally he went a 
fishing, and took a great haul of salmon. The girl is returned to him, and 
the next day following he came, clothed in a beautiful new robe of beaver 
skins, very well ornamented with wampum, to the fort which was then a 
building for the Frenchmen, bringing his wife with him as triumphing in 
his victory, having gained her in fair fight. He has ever since loved her 
well, contrary to the Indian custom, giving us to understand that what is 
acquired with trouble ought to be much cherished.’ 
CHAPTER V. 
Description of Isle Saincte Croix. Enterprise of the Sieur de Monts, difficult and 
public-spirited, but persecuted by envy : Return of the Sieur de Poutrincourt to France. 
Before speaking of the return of the ships to France, it should be said 
that the Isle St. Croix is hard to find for one who has not been there, for 
there are sO many islands and bays to pass before one gets there that I am 
astonished how they penetrated so far to find it. There are three or four 
mountains prominent above the others on the banks, but on the north from 
which the river descends there is nothing but a sharp pointed one over two 
leagues distant.* The woods of the mainland are fair and admirable, and the 
grass is the same. Tihere are two very pleasing streams of fresh water oppo- 
site the island, where several of the men of Sieur de Monts did their house- 
keeping, and had built huts there? As to the nature of the land, it is very 
1 These mountains are evidently the loftier ones along the Canadian shore 
(Fig. 2), Chamcook and Greenlaw, with McLaughlans, Simpsons and Leigh- 
tons. The sharp pointed one two leagues distant is plainly on Cooksons Island 
in Oak Bay, and his special reason for mentioning it in this way is no doubt 
to show how unprotected was the island from the north winds. 
* One would think he referred here to the two streams at Red Beach, 
Beaver Lake Brook and Lows Brook (Fig. 2), were it not that Champlain’s 
map (Fig. 8) marks a camp or cabin beside the gardens at Johnsons Cove on 
the Canadian shore, implying that this was one of the two, and Beaver Lake 
Brook the other, The former stream is, however, at present extremely small, 
little more than a swale, running only in times of much rain. In the wooded 
condition of the country it may then have been more constant. Lescarbot 
(see later, page 83), implies that some of the men took up their abode on the 
mainland. 

