. 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, Newfoundland of the Demoiselle and Cape Thiennot are and take a little of the and , andthey are distant eighteen leagues. Cape Thiennot isin 50 deg. and %, and there the sea is broadest. 1 Pheasants. What is here mentioned is doubtless the ptarmigan{Lagopus mutus), which is still found in this region. 248 COURSE OF JEAN ALPHONSE And it may be to the end of Newfoundland, whichis at the entrance of Cape Breto
. 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, Newfoundland of the Demoiselle and Cape Thiennot are and take a little of the and , andthey are distant eighteen leagues. Cape Thiennot isin 50 deg. and %, and there the sea is broadest. 1 Pheasants. What is here mentioned is doubtless the ptarmigan{Lagopus mutus), which is still found in this region. 248 COURSE OF JEAN ALPHONSE And it may be to the end of Newfoundland, whichis at the entrance of Cape Breton, seventy leagues,which is the greatest breadth of the sea. And thereare six or seven isles between the Isles of the Demoi-selle^ and Cape Cape Breton Cape Thiennot hath in the sea, five or six leaguesdistant from it, a sunken island, dangerous for ships. 1 Isles of the Demoiselle. So named from a romantic episode in whichthe niece of Roberval was the heroine, according to Thevet (CosmographieUniverselle, ch. vi, pp. liv, xxiii). There were in the company of Rober-val his niece Marguerite and a young gentleman who proved to be herlover. Roberval, discovering their intimacy, was furious, and landed hisniece and her lover, with her nurse, Bastienne, on a wild island to uncle, however, left them guns and ammunition, together with pro-visions sufficient to sustain life a short time. A small hut was erected forshelter, and the fight for existence began. The lover and nurse both died;but Marguerite for nearly two years fought off the wild beasts, subsistingupon the flesh of those she killed and such herbs and roots as she couldfind, and sustained her spirit by prayer and faith in ultimate last, a fish
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