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that are greater : these are named Godetz. There are 

 also of another sort but bigger, and white which bite 

 even as dogs : those we named Margaulx. 



"And albeit the sayd Island be 14 leagues from the 

 rhaine land, notwithstanding beares come swimming 

 thither to eat of the sayd birds ; and our men found one 

 there as great as any cow, and as white as any swan, who 

 in their presence leapt into the sea ; and vpon Whitsun 

 mvnday (following our voyage toward the land) we met 

 her by the way, swimming toward land as swiftly as we 

 could saile. So soone as we saw her, we pursued her with 

 our boats, and by maine strength tooke her, whose flesh 

 was as good to be eaten as the flesh of a calfe of two 

 yeres olde." 



Cartier then sailed north, entered the Strait of Belle 

 Me, anchoring at Blanc Sablon, still a settlement east 

 of Bradore Bav. 



" White Sand [Blanc Sablon] is a road in the which 

 there is no place guarded froni the south, or southeast. 

 But towards south-southwest from the saide road there 

 are two Hands, one of the which is called Brest Island, 

 and the other the Hand of Birds, in which there is great 

 store of Godetz, and crows with red beaks and red feete: 

 they make their nests in holes vnder the ground euen 

 as conies." 



The great French navigator harbored in the ancient 

 port of Brest, near these Islands; the "Hand of Birds," 

 b^ing the present Parroqueet Island, fifteen miles east- 

 ward of the mouth of Esquimaux River. 



Our voyager then coasted along these forbidding 

 Chores to St. James River, where he first saw the natives; 

 " they weare theirhaire tied on the top like a wreath of 



