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Streamfjord. The story about the first departure is 

 as follows: "To turn to Thorfinn Karlsefni, he went 

 southward off the land, and Snorri and Bjarni and 

 their men with him. They sailed for a long time, until 

 they came to a river that flowed from inland into the 

 sea. There were great bars at the mouth of the river 

 so that it could only be entered at flood tide. Thorfinn 

 and his men sailed into the mouth of the river and 

 called it Hop."'' 



If one examines the map, it becomes apparent that 

 the references to Streamfjord, Hop, Keelness, etc., do 

 not fit Steensby's theory either that Keelness is Point 

 Vaches or that Hop is Montmagny, far in the estuary 

 of the St. Lawrence. Everything seems to support the 

 argument advanced by Halldor Hermannsson" that 

 Streamfjord is on the eastern coast of New Bruns- 

 wick and that Keelness is Cape Gaspe, the extremity 

 of Gaspe Peninsula (Fig. 11). Assuming that, one 

 understands why Thorfinn sailed southward round 

 the land and arrived in Hop, which must have been to 

 the southeast of New Brunswick. And then, also, one 

 realizes why he later sailed northward around Keel- 

 ness and there bore to the westward with land to the 

 larboard. It is thus possible to say that he took a north- 



2^ A small land-locked bay. 



2'^ Hermannsson, Wineland Voyages, Geogr, Rev., Vol. 17, pp. iio- 

 III. 



