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the present case, however, it does not affect the argument whether it was the 18th or 19th of 

 the month. The point to be noticed is that he says "we returned" {retournâmes) tow ard>i 

 Cap Eoyal to try to find a harbour." This impUes, of course, that he had left it, though it 

 does not say that he had. I exphiin it as follows : As soon as his consort ship came up, they 

 set sail to go towards the cape which they saw to the west-southwest of them, viz., Cap 

 Delatte (Hound Head) ; having gone some distance, they were met by a head wind, and 

 obliged to I'eturn towards Cap Royal. (Le vent nous fut contraire et grant vent et retournâmes 

 vers Cap Royal cuider trouver hahle.) How far he went before he was obliged to turn back, 



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he does not say ; but let us suppose him to have gone about half way from Cap Royal 

 towards Cap Delatte, or about 15 miles ; he would then be off Long Point in the position 

 (A) of the accompanying map. Red Island would then appear to him in the line of vision 

 A B. But imagining that it was directly north of Round Head in the point (C) instead of 

 (as it really was) some five miles further away at D, he would have naturally thought it a 

 " low island north of Cap Delatte and about half a league from it." He had no opportunity 

 afterwards of rectifying this error, for it is evident that he did not see the coast again till he 

 saw Cap St. Jehan on the 24th June. He had no knowledge of Cape St. George and the 



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