. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . n bysavages, and others that he was hanged by the Spaniards asa pirate. Somewhat the same shadowy uncertainty still at-taches to his reputation. A greater than Verrazzano followed him, aroused and stim-ulated by what he had done. The first explorer of the was Jacques Cartier, who had sailed for years onfishing voyages from St. Malo, which was and is the nurseryof the hardiest sailors of France. Having visited Labrador,he longed to penetrate farther; and sailing in April, 1534, h
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . n bysavages, and others that he was hanged by the Spaniards asa pirate. Somewhat the same shadowy uncertainty still at-taches to his reputation. A greater than Verrazzano followed him, aroused and stim-ulated by what he had done. The first explorer of the was Jacques Cartier, who had sailed for years onfishing voyages from St. Malo, which was and is the nurseryof the hardiest sailors of France. Having visited Labrador,he longed to penetrate farther; and sailing in April, 1534, hevisited Newfoundland and the Bay of Chaleur, and set up across at Gaspe, telling the natives with pious fraud that it wasonly intended for a beacon. He then sailed up the St. Law- THE FRENCH VOYAGEURS. Ill rence nearly to Anticosti, supposing that this great streamwas the long-sought passage to Cathay and the Indies. Thenext year he sailed again, with three vessels, and for the firsttime described to the world what he calls the river of Hoche-laga. He applied the name of Canada to a certain part of. JACQUES CARTIER. the banks of the St. Lawrence, calling all below Saguenay, andall above Hochelaga, these being Indian names. There hasbeen, however, much discussion about the word Canada,which means a village in certain Indian dialects, and alsosignifies, curiously enough, a ravine in Spanish, and a lane in Portuguese. 112 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. In the greatest delight over the beauty of the river, theFrenchmen sailed onward. They visited Stadacone, the siteof Quebec, and Hochelaga, the site of Montreal, Cartier be-ing the first to give the name of Mont Royal to the neigh-boring mountain. At Hochelaga they found the carefullybuilt forts of the Indians, which Cartier minutely describes,and the large communal houses already mentioned. Theymet everywhere with a cordial reception, except that the In-dians brought to bear strange pretences to keep them fromascendino^ the river t
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