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and were able to give Cartier news of the departure thence for France of some of the vessels 

 already laden with fish. He sailed northeast with a high breeze, until Saturday August 

 8th, when he got sight of the Grandies Mountains in Newfoundland, and Cap Double. 

 The wind increased almost to a gale from east-northeast and they turned their course 

 north-northwest and arrived at Blanc Sablon on Sunday, August 9th. 



They remained there till the 15th, the great festival of the Assumption of the B. V. 

 Mary ; when, having attended at mass, they started with a good tide for home. They met 

 with a storm in mid-ocean, which continued three days, but with the help of God they 

 suifered and endured. After that they had a pleasant time and arrived at St. Malo on the 

 5th September, after a voyage of 20 days from Blanc Sablon. 



Second Voyage, 1535. 



On Sunday the 16th May, 1535, the feast of Pentecost, Cartier and his crew, having 

 with great devotion performed their religious duties, and received the blessing of the Bishop 

 of St. Malo, in the Cathedral, prepared themselves for the second voyage. 



On Wednesday, 19th May, all was ready and they set sail with three vessels. They had 

 a stormy passage ; lost sight of each other in mid-ocean ; arrived at the Funks only on July 

 7th, and at Blanc Sablon, the place of rendezvous, on the 15th July. The other two ships 

 did not arrive till the 26th. Having taken in wood and water they sailed westwards on the 

 29tli. They passed by the harbours to the westward of Brest, which had been explored the 

 previous year ; but they called at three other ports between Jacques Cartier Harbour and 

 Cape Thiennot. They named them respectively St. Guillaume (Mecatina) Ste. Marthe (St. 

 Mary's Island) and St. Germain (Treble Island). They arrived at Cape Thiennot on July 

 31st, which they at once recognized as having seen the past year. And (by a coincidence) 

 again on the feast of St. Peter's Chains, 1st August, entered for a second time the " Strait 

 of St. Peter." 



At about seven and a half leagues from Cape Thiennot, they entered a harbour " be- 

 tween four islands standing out in the sea," which they called St. Nicholas. They 

 remained in this harbour till August 7th, (Sunday). There is a slight mistake here, as Sunday 

 was the 8th of the month. They then went across to the shore of Anticosti. This is quite 

 clear from the narrative, though some have denied it. " We saw from this harbour " (St. 

 Nicholas) the land on the other side (la terre deca) towards the Cape de Rebast ; ' the 

 point at which on the previous year he said the land ^'■commence a se rebaUre." That is the 

 northeast point of Anticosti, Fox Point, the point at which on the previous year he had 

 left the Anticosti shore to come over to the north shore. He now goes back, determined 

 not to leave an inch of shore unexplored. He still further fixes this point by saying it was 

 twenty leagues south-southwest from St. Nicholas. The following day (9tii) he coasted 

 along northerly on the shore of Anticosti but the wind came contrary and finding no har- 

 bours on that shore, he ran for a harbour on the northern (Labrador) side of the strait about 

 ten leagues westward from St. Nicholas. This harbour he called St. Lawrence as he arrived 

 there, or rested there, (he does not say which) on the feast of that renowned martyr, August 

 10th. Although it is generally believed that the St. Lawrence of Cartier is the modern St. 

 Genevieve, and even Bayfield says-so, still, from the bearings and description of Cartier, I 



' May not the present Cape Robert be a corruption of this name ? 



