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Chap. !■ 



Remarkable 

 manner of li- 

 ving. 



Quttrtitr's 

 Expedition. 



Scurvy J 

 whenkncwn. 



Exploit 'of 

 it la Xjoque. 



OidiMontt. 



M„ 6.1h,fmi,UBm. j.TU Off™"- WKhm the South,™ Point fW,„, 



i„ g „oft Sou,h. W c»iy ttpon the So Co.ft, «h. tfl to dnr. . g- Tnd. . 

 Beavers and other Commodities. cvinrvirds 



Wefterly before the River O«v«ort lies fi«cct« I>, full of Vineyards. 



The hab tants thereof differ very mnch from other Salvages for they (have 

 allThe Ha r f r0 m the Crown of their Head, wear long Locks behind, pleited to- 

 cet , " d ftuck full of Feathers, Paint their Faces black and red go arm d with 

 Clubs Bows, Pikes, and Arrows pointed with Fift-bone, : They Till their 

 Ground very handfomly, and divide their Fields with Hedges , they Plant To- 

 bacco Vin7s, Cabbages^, and divers Colour'd Beans 5 the (talks of the** 

 ferve in ftead of Poles for their Beans to run up upon. ,.,.. ,. , „ 



Beyond Cafe de dfccfcr lies the brave Harbor Veauport, which is fecur d from a I 

 Wind! by an Ifie which lies in the midft of it. The Countrey Manur d in moft pla- 

 ces and Fruitful, feeds (lore of Men and Cartel. 



The Haven of Malabar is furrounded in a manner with little Huts, cover d with 

 Mats, which in the Middle of the Room have a hole for the Smoke to go oat at. 

 The Southern Chore is Sandy, and very dangerous. 



For the more full exemplification of what concerns this part of Vto* < Franca, we 

 fhall conclude with an account of all Material PafTages relating to the French, from 

 their own Narrations as followeth. 



THe firft difcoverer of this Coaft was Jaaues Quarter, Cent out Anno 1 554. by the 

 French King, Francis the Firft, in which Expedition he (pent five Months, and 

 going from thence to StJfifr, difcovei'd the Inlet Laurence, Terreneuf, and Natjfcotec. 

 The following year profecuting his Voyage, he Sail'd into the great River C-^, 

 and Wintered near St Cmx, where he loft divers of his Men by the Scurvy a Diftem- 

 per till that time altogether unknown , and fuch was his condition, that none of 

 his Men had efcap'd with life, had not the Inhabitants taught him to cure the fame 

 with the Bark and Leaves of the Tree Jnnedda j with which many recovering, 

 Quarter Weigh'd Anchor, and treacheroufly carry'd the King Vomalona with many 

 of his Nobles, Prifoners to France ■ but moft of them dying, Quarter brought only 

 a few of them back with him in his third Voyage, fix years after the fir ft, when ar- 

 riving in the Haven St. £«*, he caft up a ftrong Fort which he nam d Charles. 

 bourz\oyaL where he ftaid a whole Winter. Joan de la \oaue, whom the French 

 King had made Governor of Quarter's new-difcover'd Countries, Sailing thither 

 with three Ships, met with Quarter's Fleet near Temneuf , from whence he was 

 then going home, becaufe he law no hopes of fubduing the Salvages with fofmall 

 a Force as he had brought with him from France. But de la % H ut endeavoring to 

 make a further difcovery of Canada, Sail'd up the River Saguenay, where (pending 

 both time and Money, he was Commanded home by the French King, and the fruit, 

 lefs Expeditions lay dead till about 1604. 



When Peter de Monts obtaining Letters Patents to Trade for Furs in the fore- 

 mention'd Countries, Sail'd with two Ships beyond Accadie, up St. Laurence <Bay, 

 where he Landed on the Me St. Croix, where of ninety feven Men, with which he 

 ftaid there a whole Winter,*he loft thirty five • but having frefh Supplies fent him 

 from France , he remov'd to Port (Royal, where leaving forty Men, he return'd 

 home 5 thefe forty being reduc'd to twenty three, and in great want, walking a- 

 long the Sea.fhore in a defpairing condition, efpy'd a Ship coming up with full 

 9 Sail, 



