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giving you my hand, I deliver over my birthright 

 and lands; and in taking your hand, I hold fast 

 all the promises you have made, and I hope 

 that will last as long as the sun goes round and the 

 water flows, as you have said.&quot; 



The Governor then took his hand and said: 

 &quot;/ accept your hand and with it the lands, and 

 will keep all my promises, in the firm belief that 

 the treaty now to be signed will bind the red 

 man and the white together as friends forever. 



The virile piety of Jacques Cartier is apparent Cartier at 

 in the story of his voyages. Of his first se P c t hel 3oth 

 visit to Hochelaga the narrator adds : That done, 1535 

 they brought before him divers diseased men, 

 some blind, some crippled, some lame, and some 

 so old that the hair of their eyelids came down and 

 covered their cheeks, and laid them all along 

 before our captain to the end that they might of 

 him be touched. For it seemed unto them that 

 God was descended and come down from heaven 

 to heal them. Our captain seeing the misery and 

 devotion of these poor people, recited the Gospel 

 of St. John, that is to say, In the beginning was 

 the Word, touching every one that were diseased, 

 praying to God that it would please him to open 

 the hearts of the poor people and to make them 

 know His Holy Word, and that they might re 

 ceive baptism and Christendom. That done, he 

 took a service book in his hand, and with a loud 

 voice read all the passion of Christ, word by word, 

 that all the standers-by might hear him ; all which 

 while this poor people kept silence and were 



