. 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, pecting him ; even the dateof his birth has been disputed. De Costa and others,who have endeavored to sketch his life, have fixed itin the year 1494, yet we have good reason to believethat he was born three years earlier, namely, in proof of this is found in certain affidavits where-in his age is stated. Thus, on January 2d, 1548, he 1 Fide Les Malouins a Terre-Neuve, etc., Harvut, Rennes, , eulogistically d
. 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, pecting him ; even the dateof his birth has been disputed. De Costa and others,who have endeavored to sketch his life, have fixed itin the year 1494, yet we have good reason to believethat he was born three years earlier, namely, in proof of this is found in certain affidavits where-in his age is stated. Thus, on January 2d, 1548, he 1 Fide Les Malouins a Terre-Neuve, etc., Harvut, Rennes, , eulogistically describing St. Malo, quotes Jules Janin as follows :** Cet ilot de Saint Malo, fils de 1Ocean, est un veritable navire a Iancre,berce par les tempetes ; les arbres ressemblent a des mats qui attendent lavague lointaine. L*air, le ciel, le nuage, le bruit, la nuit, le jour, tout rap-pelle a Saint Malo, la vue du Matelot des lointaines rivages. Vie dumatelot, passion de la mer, amour de Iorage, orgueil de Iecume salee,peche et bataille, amour, abordage, Honneur a Saint Malo! Ce Vaisseauest assure par une ancre eternelle qui touche au fond de la mer.* 10 \D h ^ u. MEMOIR OF JACQUES CARTIER is declared to be fifty-six, on December 23d, 1551,sixty, and on June 6th, 1556, sixty-four years of age.^This would make the date of his birth prior to De-cember, 1491. Of his parentage there has also beena difference of opinion ; but we may conclude withfull assurance that he was the son of Jamet Cartierand Geseline Jansart.^ Of his youth nothing is known,except that he began a seafaring life at an early Malo was a prosperous seaport, and the interestsof its people were identified with maritime sea which beat at their doors was a vast field,as yet but imperfectly explored, upon whose richharvests their thoughts were ever centered; hencethe mariners calling was held in high esteem, andhe, who excelled in knowledge of the sea and skillin seamanship, won the admiration an
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