. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. 106 The Canadian Field-Naturalist [Vol. XXXIII. cause he was without the means—and merely esti- mated the position by dead reckoning from his last observation at Gould's Landing. And now the fatal hour for de Vignau had come. His story of the North Sea seems to have been sug- gested by some vague report he had heard of Eng- lish explorations in Hudson's Bay. But he knew nothing about Hudson's Bay, and in order to give his imaginary sea a local habitation and a name, he connected it with Lake Nipissing, which he had no doubt heard spoken of by h
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. 106 The Canadian Field-Naturalist [Vol. XXXIII. cause he was without the means—and merely esti- mated the position by dead reckoning from his last observation at Gould's Landing. And now the fatal hour for de Vignau had come. His story of the North Sea seems to have been sug- gested by some vague report he had heard of Eng- lish explorations in Hudson's Bay. But he knew nothing about Hudson's Bay, and in order to give his imaginary sea a local habitation and a name, he connected it with Lake Nipissing, which he had no doubt heard spoken of by his Indian hosts as a large bodj- cf water not many days' journey dis- tant. Thus Champlain was led to ask Tessouat raised loud cries, and Tessouat said: "You are a downright liar, you know well that you slept at my side every night with my children; if you were among the people mentioned it was while ; For a while the impostor brazened it out, but at last gave in and made full confession. "After meditating by himself he fell on his knees, and asked my pardon, declaring that all he had said both in France and in this country in respect to the sea in question was false, that he had never seen it, and that he had never gone farther than the village of Tessouat. " His anxiety to return to Canada, he said, had caused him to concoct the story—Cana-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. Ottawa
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