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crowd of a thousand savages who offered them 

 &quot;great quantities of fish and of the bread which 

 they baked from the ripened corn, and brought 

 little children in their arms making signs for 

 Car tier and his companions to touch them.&quot; 



On the morrow, at daybreak, they set out to 

 visit the town, situated just below the present 

 site and grounds of McGill University. Travel 

 ling along a beaten pathway, under lordly oaks, 

 Cartier says, &quot;After we had gone about four or 

 five miles we met by the way one of the chiefest 

 lords of the city, accompanied with many more, 

 who, as soon as he saw us, beckoned and made 

 signs upon us, that we must rest in that place 

 where they had made a great fire, and so we did. 

 After that we had rested ourselves there awhile, 

 the said lord began to make a long discourse, 

 even as we have said above they are accustomed 

 to do in sign of mirth and friendship, showing our 

 captain and all his company a joyful countenance 

 and good will, who gave him two hatchets, a pair 

 of knives and a cross he had made him to kiss, 

 and then put it about his neck, for which he gave 

 our captain hearty thanks. This done, we went 

 along, and about a mile and a half farther, we 

 began to find goodly and large fields full of such 

 corn as the country yieldeth. It is even as the 

 millet of Brazil as great and somewhat bigger than 

 small peason (peas), wherewith they live as we 

 do with ours. 



Hoch r ePa t la riof &quot;In the midst of those fields is the city of 

 Hochelaga, placed near and, as it were, joined to 



