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did not see a cart-load of good earth. To be 

 short, I believe that this is the land that God 

 allotted to Cain.&quot; 



The natives sighted were painted &quot;with certain 

 red colours&quot;; so the adjective &quot;Red&quot; was attach 

 ed to the mistaken term of Columbus, &quot;Indian,&quot; 

 and &quot;Red Indian&quot; was the result. 



&quot;They are men,&quot; wrote Cartier &quot;of an indiffer 

 ent good stature and bigness, but wild and unruly. 

 They wear their hair tied on the top like a wreath 

 of hay and put a wooden pin within it, or any 

 other such thing instead of a nail, and with them 

 they bind certain bird s feathers. They are 

 clothed with beasts skins as well the men as 

 women, but that the women go somewhat 

 straighter and closer in their garments than the 

 men do, with their waists girded. They paint 

 themselves with certain roan colours. Their 

 boats are made with the bark of birch trees, with 

 the which they fish and take great stores of 

 seals, and, as far as we could understand since 

 our coming thither, that is not their habitation, 

 but they come from the mainland out of hotter 

 countries to catch the said seals and other 

 necessaries for their living.&quot; 



Cartier, on his second voyage, penetrated up cat-tier s 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence and reached Stada- 

 cona, the Indian town near the foot of the rock 

 of Quebec. Meanwhile, needless to say, his ideas 

 concerning the country &quot;that God allotted to 

 Cain&quot; had undergone very serious modification; 

 he now speaks of a &quot;goodly and fertile spot cover- 



