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as devils with long horns on their heads arrived, 

 and the one in the centre made a strange speech 

 as they approached. They passed along by our 

 ships in their canoe without turning their eyes 

 upon us, and continued till they struck hard upon 

 the shore with their canoe; then immediately 

 Donnacona and his people took the canoe and the 

 three men who lay in the canoe as if dead and 

 carried all into the woods, about a stone s throw 

 distant, and not a single savage was left in front 

 of our ships. From within the woods they began 

 a talking and a preaching which we could hear 

 on the ships. &quot; 



About half an hour later one of Carrier s inter 

 preters came out of the woods with a doleful 

 countenance, and all the outward marks of the 

 reluctant bearer of evil tidings. He informed 

 Cartier that the great god &quot;Cudragny&quot;had sent 

 the three spirits to tell him that he could not go 

 up to Hochelaga, &quot;because there was so much ice 

 and snow in that country that whoever went 

 there would die.&quot; Cartier calmly dismissed this 

 solemn warning with the remark that &quot;their god, 

 Cudragny, must be a fool and a noodle, and that, 

 as for the cold, Christ would protect his followers 

 from that, if they would but believe in Him.&quot; 



The passage up the River enslaved the imagin- 

 tion of the already converted explorer, &quot;as goodly 

 a country,&quot; he declared &quot;as possibly can with eye oct. h 2ndfY535 

 be seen, and all replenished with very goodly 

 trees.&quot; On landing on the shores of the Island 

 of Montreal, the strangers were welcomed by a 



