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our captaine and all his company a joyfull countenance, 

 and good will ; who gave him two hatchets, a paire of 

 knives and a crucifix which he made him to kisse, and 

 then put it about his necke, for which he gave our 

 captaine hear tie thank es. This done, we went along, 

 and about a mile and a halfe farther, we began to 

 finde goodly and large cultivated fieldes, full of such 

 corn as the countrie yeeldeth. It is even as the Millet 

 of Bresil, as great and some what bigger than small 

 peason, wherewith they live even as we doe with our 

 wheat. In the midst of those fields is the citie of 

 Hochelaga, placed neere, and as it were joyned to a 

 great mountaine,* that is tilled round about, very 

 fertill, on the top of which you may see very farre, we 

 named it Mount Koiall. The citie of Hochelaga is 

 round, compassed about with timber, with three course 

 of Eampires, one within another framed like a sharp 

 spire, or pyramid, but laid acrosse above. The middle- 

 most of them is perpendicular. The Kampires are 

 framed and fashioned with pieces of timber, layd along 

 very well and cunningly joyned togither after their 

 fashion. This inclosure is in height about two rods.*f* 

 It hath but one gate or entrie thereat, which is shut 

 with piles, stakes, and barres. Over it, and also in 

 many places of the wall, there is a kind of gallery to 

 runne along, and ladders to get up, all full of stones 



* Literally " which surrounds ifc, well cultivated and very 

 fertile." 



f French " deux lances." The drawing in Kamusio's 

 translation would give a height of about sixteen feet. 



