{s. E. DAWSON] 



THE VOYAGES OF THE CABOTS 



were fishermen, not farmers or explorers, who resorted to these coasts, 

 and they found the cod swarming in all the Atlantic harbours of Nova 

 Scotia, Cape Breton and Newfoundland far beyond their needs. Canso, 

 in Nova Scotia, near by, was a great fishing station. On Cape Breton 

 the English frequented the Havre aux Anglais (Louisbourg) ; the Span- 

 iards, Baye aux Espagnols (Sydney) ; the French, Baye de Ste. Anne 

 (Port Dauphin) ; and the Portuguese have left their traces in Port 

 Nova island and Mira bay. The Magdalen islands were well known and 

 frequented for hunting seals, walruses and whales by Basques and 

 Bretons, and later by English, as has been shown in the voyages cited 

 from Hakluyt. The fur traders to the St. Lawrence also passed by these 

 islands and necessarily knew them. None of these people were searching 



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for farm lands to settle upon, and the rocks and sands of the Magdalen 

 and its harbours gave them all the facilities they required for shelter and 

 refitting, as well as for drying fish and trying out oil. This is expressly 

 stated by Hakluyt in the voyage of the " Bonaventure " in 1591. He 

 describes these islands, and sets forth the advantages of the good pebble 

 beach for drying fish. The ship is said to have sailed with the "fleet" 

 for Canada, and she had two consorts. They killed 1,500 morses or sea- 

 oxen on the islands. All the vessels then came in the spring and went in 

 the fall, and their object was purely commercial ; not in the least agri- 

 cultural or scientific. 



In the pages of Hakluyt no knowledge of Prince Edward Island 

 can be detected. There are voyages to the gulf, such as the voyage of 

 the '• Bonaventure" in 1591 to the island of Ramea. and that mentioned 



