Saguenay .country, &c. 53 
were told by those of Saguenay, there was never man 
heard of ‘that found out the end thereof, for they said to us 
they never were there themselves.” This corresponds suffi- 
ciently with the known geography ofthe country. The fresh 
water sea here referred to, is doubtless Lake Mistassinis, ree 
specting which the story here given in 1535 was reported to 
us by the Indians of the King’s Posts. The same story will 
be found in the examination of one or more of the witnesses 
examiued before the committee upon the Crown lands. 
Jacques Cartier was also told by the Indians about Quebec, 
that the inhabitants of the Saguenay had great store of copper. 
Oa the Gth of May, 1536, Jacques Cartier sailed from 
Quebec on his return to France, stopped at the Isle aux 
Coudres, and remained there till the 16th of the same month, 
when many of the subjects (as he calls them,) of the Indian 
chief whom he was conveying to France, came to sce their 
chief, and ** gave him three bundles of beavers, and seas 
* wolves skins, with a great knife of red copper that come 
* eth from Saguenay,’” 
The fourth voyage of Jacques Cartier contains nothing re« 
specting the Saguenay country. 
Mr. Roberval, ‘* the King’s lieutenant general in the 
* countries of Canada, Saguenay, and Hochelaga, departe 
ed towards the province of Saguenay, on Tuesday the 
“ bthof June, 1543. Their furniture was of eight barks as 
*€ well great as small, aud to the number of three score and 
“ ten persons with the aforesaid General.” 
On the 14th of June, Monsieur ‘‘ L’Espiney La Brosse, 
*€ Monsieur Fréte, Monsieur Longeval, and others, returned 
* from the General from the voyage of Saguenay, 
** And note that eight men and one bark were drowned 
“ and lost, among whom was Monsieur De Noire Lafon- 
* taine, and one named Lavasseur of Constance." 
"On Tuesday the 16th of June aforesaid, there came 
** from the general Monsieur Villeneuve, Talebot, and three 
“ others, which brought six score pound weight of their 
** corn 
