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Title: A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, etc.
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557 Baxter, James Phinney, 1831-1921
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Publisher: New York : Dodd
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n their visitors presents of fish, andbread made of maize. Pleased with their generous reception Cartier landedwith his men, who were soon surrounded by thewondering natives, by whom they were regarded withadmiring awe, the women bringing their infants totouch them as though they were celestial visitants.Cartier, deeply impressed with their simple kindness,had the women seat themselves in order, and thenpresented them with bright trinkets of tin. To someof the men he gave knives,— precious treasures intheir sight,— and then retired to his boats for thenight, followed to the rivers brink by the impul-sive natives, who built bonfires along the shore anddanced and shouted the livelong night. In the morning Cartier, after arraying himself be-comingly, proceeded on foot for a couple of leagues,with a party of his companions, by a well-beatenroad bordered by splendid oaks then shedding theirnuts, when Hochelaga, reposing at the foot of afair mountain, burst upon his vision. About the 32
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MEMOIR OF JACQUES CARTIER town stretched fields of maize, yellowing for theharvest. The houses were long, composed of tim-ber, and divided into rooms with lofts above forthe storage of grain and other fruits. In greatvessels like tuns was kept the fish which had beensmoked during the summer for winters use. Likemany other Indian tribes of North America, theHochelagans used no salt whatever in their food,which comprised game and fish, maize, beans, peas,pumpkins, cucumbers, and wild fruits. Guided by some of the excited and joyous nativesto an open space in the center of the village, all thepeople, young and old, at once hurried to look uponthe white-faced strangers, who seemed to have comefrom another world. The women wept for joy attheir coming and held up their children to betouched by them. After a short time the men caused the women toretire, and, placing the strangers in their midst, satdown. Immediately after several women appearedwith mats, which they spread upon the ground for

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