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CAPE COD. 
rable Map of New France, including the oldest lecog- 
nizable map of what is now the New England coast 
with which I am acquainted, Cape Cod is called G. 
JBJan (i. e. Cape White), from the color of its sands, 
and Massachusetts Bay is Baye Blanche, It was vis¬ 
ited by De Monts and Champlain in 1605, and the next 
year was further explored by Poitrincourt and Cham® 
plain. The latter has given a particular account of these 
explorations in his “Voyages,” together with separate 
charts and soundings of two of its harbors, — Malle 
Barre^ the Bad Bar (Nauset Harbor?), a name now 
applied to what the French called Gap Baturier, — and 
Port Fortune^ apparently Chatham Harbor. Both these 
names are copied on the map of “Novi Belgii,” in 
Ogilby’s America. He also describes minutely the man¬ 
ners and customs of the savages, and represents by a 
plate the savages surprising the French and killing five 
or six of them. The French afterward killed some of 
the natives, and wished, by way of revenge, to carry 
off some and make them grind in their hand-mill at 
Port Poyal. 
It is remarkable that there is not in English any ade-* 
quate or correct account of the French exploration of 
what is now the coast of New England, between 1604 
and 1608, though it is conceded that they then made the 
first permanent European settlement on the continent 
of North America north of St. Augustine. If the lions 
had been the painters it would have been otherwise. 
This omission is probably to be accounted for partly by 
the fact that the early edition of Champlain’s “ Voyages ” 
had not been consulted for this purpose. This contains 
by far the most particular, and, I think, the most inter¬ 
esting chapter of what we may call the Ante-Pilgrim 
