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you muft know, that after we had waited for a 

 fair Wind fifteen or twenty days at St. Nazere, we 

 fet fail on the nth of May laft. Our PafTagc was 

 neither long nor fhort, for we arrived at the Har- 

 bour of Tlacentia the zotboi June, having taken an 

 Englijh Ship laden with Tobacco, on the edges of 

 the Bank of Newfound Land. After I landed, I 

 went to faluce Mr. Brcuillon, Governor of Flacentia, 

 and declared to him how glad I was to obey the 

 Orders of fo wife a Commander. He anfwer'd, 

 that he was much furpriz'd to find, that I had fol- 

 licited to be employ 'd there, without acquainting 

 him with ic the preceding year ; and that he now 

 plainly perceived, that the Project about the Lakes 

 of Canada, ( which I had mentioned to him ) was a 

 mere {ham pretence. 1 endeavoured in vain to per- 

 / fwade him to the contrary ; for it was not poffible 

 for me to undeceive him. Neverthelefs, I landed 

 my Goods, and hir-d a private Houfe, till fuch time 

 as I could build one for my felf, which I carried 

 on with fo much diligence, that it was finifh'd in 

 September, by the affiftance of the Ship-Carpenters, 

 who were lent me gratis, by all the Bifcay Captains. 

 The Sieur ifer/iy of St. John de Luz>, arrived at Tla- 

 centia on the j 8th of July, with one of his Ships, 

 and brought me a Letter, wherein you acquaint 

 me, that in regard your Nephew defires to vifit 

 Canada the next year,you would be very glad to have 

 a Dictionary of the Language of the Savages, to- 

 gether with the Memoirs which I promised you. 



On the 1 6th of September we perceived an Englifk 

 Fleet of twenty four Sail, which caft Anchor in 

 the Road much about the time that it was difco- 

 ver'd. It was commanded by Sir Francis Wheeler, 

 who had gene to Martinico with a defign to feize 

 thatlfle, and in his return from thence had faifd 

 to New-England, to take in feme Forces and Am- 

 munition there, in order to make himfeif Mailer 



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