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Inasmuch 



Donnacona, 

 Chief of 

 Stadacona 



The Indians 

 Stratagem 



ed with fine trees&quot;; while the Island of Orleans 

 was so densely wooded, with &quot;wild grapes hang 

 ing to the rivers edge&quot; that he called it the &quot;Isle 

 of Bacchus,&quot; changing the name later to that 

 which it now bears. When returning to France, 

 on his first voyage, from the Bay of Gaspe, 

 Cartier invited two sons of the chief to ac 

 company him; these gladly complied and were 

 now his guides and interpreters. 



Donnacona, the Chief of Stadacona, an able 

 and wily savage, did all in his power to keep for 

 himself the benefits of acquaintance with the 

 strangers, and resorted to the terrors of magic 

 and pantomime to deter them from ascending the 

 river to Hochelaga. &quot;The next day, the eigh 

 teenth, in order to prevent us going to Hochelaga, 

 they thought out a grand scheme as follows: 

 They dressed up three men as devils with horns 

 as long as the arm, and they were covered with 

 the skins of black and white dogs. Their faces 

 were painted black as coal, and they were placed 

 in a concealed canoe. The band came to us as 

 usual, the others waiting in the woods without 

 appearing for about two hours for the time and 

 tide for the arrival of the above canoe; at which 

 time they all came out of the forest and showed 

 themselves before our ships without approaching 

 any nearer. According to their plan, Taignoagny 

 saluted our Captain, who asked if he wanted our 

 boat; the former replied not for the present, but 

 that by-and-by he would come on board, and 

 immediately the canoe, with the three disguised 



