The picturesque StLawrence . ngfor the release of the kidnapped chiefs, butwithout avail. Cartier kept on his course andreached France in midsummer. In his account of this year in the New Worldhe calls the St. Lawrence the River of Hoche-laga, or the great river of Canada. Canadawas an Indian word equivalent to town orvillage and was at first applied by the French toonly a limited portion of the valley about Stada-cona. But the extent of territory it covered wasgradually enlarged until it now embraces allthe British dominions in North America exceptNewfoundland and Labrador. Five years passed,
The picturesque StLawrence . ngfor the release of the kidnapped chiefs, butwithout avail. Cartier kept on his course andreached France in midsummer. In his account of this year in the New Worldhe calls the St. Lawrence the River of Hoche-laga, or the great river of Canada. Canadawas an Indian word equivalent to town orvillage and was at first applied by the French toonly a limited portion of the valley about Stada-cona. But the extent of territory it covered wasgradually enlarged until it now embraces allthe British dominions in North America exceptNewfoundland and Labrador. Five years passed, and we find Cartier for athird time on his way across the Atlantic. Wehave resolved, said the king, to send himagain to the lands of Canada and Hochelaga,which form the extremity of Asia toward thewest. The object of the expedition was dis-covery, settlement, and the conversion of theIndians. In the course of time Cartiers fleet of fiveships cast anchor beneath the cliffs of came out from the shore filled with. Ix -4 O W The Earliest Explorers 17 feathered savages inquiring for their kidnappedchiefs. But Cartier answered evasively. As amatter of fact the captives had all died within ayear or tv/o, though he only acknowledged thedeath of Donnacona and declared that the othershad married white women and were so contentedwith their new life that they had refused to comeback. The French presently went a few miles fartherup the river to Cap Rouge where they they picked up quartz crystals on the shoreand thought them diamonds, rambled throughthe tall grass of the meadow in an adjacent glenthat opened back inland, climbed the steeppromontory whence they looked down on theneighboring wooded slopes, and in a quarryof slate gathered scales of a yellow mineralthat glistened like gold. Later they cleared offa patch of woods, sowed some turnip seed, cuta zigzag road up the height, and built two forts,one at the summit and one on the shore below. A nobleman named R
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