136 GANONG ON CARTIBR'S FIRST VOYAGE. 



to separate. Au adverse wind allowed them to make no further headway, but as they 

 approached the shore for shelter, the tide seized and carried them very rapidly west- 

 ward for two hours. Then it turned against them with great force preventing any further 

 advance in that direction. They went ashore in their boats at the last mentioned cape, 

 and noticed that the land began to turn towards the south-west. They gave no name 

 to it, but it must have been the present North Point. The strait between Auticosti and 

 Labrador was named St. Peter Strait (le destroyt Saint Pierre), because it was on the day 

 of that saint they entered it. 



A general council was now called, at which it was decided, on account of the lateness 

 of the season and the difficiilties of advancing further, to return home. They accordingly 

 coasted eastward along Labrador, visiting and naming on the way Ca^^e Thiennot (the 

 present Natashquan Point) in honor of the chief of a band of Indians they saw there. On 

 August 9th, they entered Blanc Sablon, and on the 15t,h, set sail for France by way of the 

 Strait of Belle Isle. On September 5th, they entered the Port of St. Malo. 



