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this reason I shall not describe again, to avoid a vain repetition. No remedy 
was found. Meanwhile the poor sick creatures languished, pining away little 
by little, having no dainties such as milk or soups to sustain a stomach 
which could not take solid food because of the growth of a hindrance of a 
rotten flesh which grew and over-abounded in the mouth, and when one 
thought to remove it, it grew in one night more abundantly than before, As 
to the tree Anneda? of which the said Cartier makes mention, the Indians 
in this region do not know it. It was indeed a great pity to see everybody 
in decline except a very few,” and to see the poor invalids dying as it were 
full of life without any possibility of help. Of this malady there died thirty- 
six, and another thirty-six or forty who were affected improved by the help 
of the spring as soon as it came. But the season of mortality in this disease 
began the last of January, the months of February and March, when ordin- 
arily they died in the order each in his turn according to whether they com- 
menced early to be taken; so that he who began to be ill in February and 
March could escape; but he who hastened too much and would take to his 
bed in December and January, he was in danger of dying in February, March, 
or the beginning of April, which time being passed he has a hope and 
even an assurance of safety. 
The hard season being passed, the sieur de Monts, wearied of his sad stay 
on Isle St. Croix, considered hunting for another harbour in a warmer country 
farther to the southward. 
Ê And so the Sieur de Monts decided to return to St. Croix, where 
he had left a goodly number of his men still weak from the effects of their 
winter’s illness, for the safety of whom he was anxious. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Arrival of the Sieur de Pont at Isle St. Croix. The Settlement removed to Port 
Royal 
The spring being passed in the voyage to the Armouchiquois,‘ the sieur de 
Monts awaited at St. Croix the time he had decided in which if there was 
no news from France he would set out to find some vessel of those which 
come to Newfoundland for the fishery, in order to return in it to France with 
his party if it were possible. This time had expired, and they were ready to 
set sail, not expecting any aid or assistance, when the Sieur de Pont, sur- 
named Gravé, resident of Honfleur, arrived with a company of some forty 
men, to relieve the suspense of sieur de Monts and his party. This was to 
the great satisfaction of everyone, as can readily be believed, and cannonading 
was not wanting according to custom, nor the blaring of trumpets. The said 
pulsory exercise, etc., the horrors of ithe scurvy would have been much 
lessened, but it must be remembered that the subject was very little under- 
stood at that time. 
1 This tree, so called by the Indians at Quebec in 1535-1536, appeared to 
heal Cartier’s party of the scurvy. Its identity is unknown, but it is gen- 
erally supposed to have been some evergreen. 
* On the identity of these few see earlier, note 3, page 170. 
* After his voyage to Cape Cod, described in Lescarbot’s work. 
* Indians of Massachusetts, 

