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vpon the rockes ; but when we approched nere vnto 

 them with our boate; they cast themselues into the sea 

 and persued vs with such furie as that we were glad to 

 flee from them." 



" The three Islands of birds are sandy red, but with 

 the multitude of birds vpon them they looke white. The 

 birds sit there as thicke as stones lie in a paued street. 

 The greatest of the Islands is about a mile in compasse. 

 The second is a little lesse. The third is a very little one, 

 like a small rocke. At the second of these three lay on 

 the shore in the Sunshine about thirty or forty sea-oxen 

 or morses ; which when our boat came" nere them, pres- 

 ently made into the sea, and swam after the boat." (The 

 voyage of Mr. Charles Leigh and diuers others to 

 Cape Briton and the Isle of Ramea, 1597. Hakluyt 

 iii. 242.) 



Parkman* also tells us that the year after the battle 

 of Ivry, St. Malo sent out a fleet of small craft in quest 

 of this new prize. 



Hind, speaking, of Seven Islands Bay, in his work on 

 Labrador, says : " In the spring and at the approach of 

 winter it is visited by myriads of ducks, geese, and 

 swans ; it was formerly a favorite haunt of the walrus, 

 which, although not now seen even in the Gulf itself, 

 was once common as far up the great river St. Lawrence, 

 as the mouth of Saugenay, and from this animal the 

 ' Pointe aux Vdches,' about a mile below Tadousac, 

 takes its name. Not improbably the ' fishes like horses' 

 which the Indians described as frequenting the Chi-sche- 

 dec, and which Lescarbot calls hippopotami, were these 

 large animals." 



* Pioneers of France in the New World, p. 2og. 



