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chart the name of Savalet.” [It is on Champlain’s 
map also.] This worthy man told as that tJiis voyage 
was the forty-second which he had made to those parts, 
and yet the Newfoundlanders \_Terre neiivieT8\ make 
only one a year. He was wonderfully content with 
his fishery, and informed us that he made daily fifty 
crowns’ worth of cod, and that his voyage would be 
worth ten thousand francs. He had sixteen men in 
his employ ; and his vessel was of eighty tons, which 
could carry a hundred thousand dry cod.” (Histoire 
de la Nouvelle France, 1612.) They dried their fish 
on the rocks on shore. 
The Isola della Rena ” (Sable Island ?) appears on 
the chart of “Nuova Francia” and Norumbega, accom¬ 
panying the “Discourse” above referred to in Ramusio’s 
third volume, edition 1556-65. Champlain speaks of 
there being at the Isle of Sable, in 1604, “ grass pastured 
by oxen {hoeufs) and cows which the Portuguese carried 
there more than sixty years ago,” i. e. sixty years before 
1613 ; in a later edition he says, which came out of a 
Spanish vessel which was lost in endeavoring to settle 
on the Isle of Sable ; and he states that De la Roche’s 
men, who were left on this island seven years from 1598, 
lived on the flesh of these cattle which they found “ en 
quantie^^ and built houses out of the wrecks of vessels 
which came to the island (“perhaps Gilbert’s”), there 
being no wood or stone. Lescarbot says that they lived 
“on fish and the milk of cows left there about eighty years 
before by Baron de Leri and Saint Just.” Charlevoix 
says they ate up the cattle and then lived on fish. Hali- 
burton speaks of cattle left there as a rumor. De Leri 
and Saint Just had suggested plans of colonization on 
the Isle of Sable as early as 1515 (1508 ?) according to 
