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there for drying more fish than the catch of the two vessels 

 in question. Six miles below Wolfe Bay is 1'Anse St. Modet, 

 where three ships fished during the season, but there was 

 scarcely sufficient accommodation for them. Two ships oc- 

 cupied the station of Baie Rouge that year, six miles beyond 

 St. Modet, but there was no shelter for a large number of 

 vessels. The fishing was quite a failure that year, in fact the 

 poorest that has occurred since vessels first visited the coast 

 eleven years ago. One hundred miles below Baie Rouge is a 

 large river named Quisisaquio 1 . The Sieur de Lage was 



FRENCH SHIP TRADING WITH THE ESQUIMAUX. 



there 25 years ago with the late Sieur de Jolliet, commanding 

 the vessel St. Francois, and entered a harbor formed by a 

 number of islands, but was only there for the purpose of 

 making a treaty with the Esquimaux. He contented him- 

 self with anchoring in the harbc-r without ascending the 

 river, which flows from the west and north-west, and there 

 is every appearance that it was to the mouth of this river 

 that the Sieur de Courtemanche had proposed to send an 



i Now known as the Hamilton River. Some of the old maps 

 of New France spelt the name Kessessakiou, which is the form 

 employed in some of the Archives of 1749, to be seen in the 

 Archives branch of the Provincial Secretary's department. 



