. New France and New England. rs withVerrazanos voyage, and for forty years thereafter it wasclosely associated with the neighbourhood of the reading the string of Robervals titles — which beginwith Norumbega and run through Canada, Hochelaga,Saguenay, etc., down to Newfoundland — it is clear that theking meant to concentrate under his rule the various regionswhich Verrazano and Cartier had discovered. When theexpedition arrives on the American coast it seems not un-natural that the viceroy should send his lieutenant to Nor-umbega while he himself should prosecute the journey toHoche
. New France and New England. rs withVerrazanos voyage, and for forty years thereafter it wasclosely associated with the neighbourhood of the reading the string of Robervals titles — which beginwith Norumbega and run through Canada, Hochelaga,Saguenay, etc., down to Newfoundland — it is clear that theking meant to concentrate under his rule the various regionswhich Verrazano and Cartier had discovered. When theexpedition arrives on the American coast it seems not un-natural that the viceroy should send his lieutenant to Nor-umbega while he himself should prosecute the journey toHochelaga. Possibly, as some believed, the watery channelspursued by the two might unite. At all events, a passage* Cf. Weise, The Discoveries of America, New York, 1884, p. 352. FROM CARTIER TO CHAMPLAIN 25 into the Sea of Verrazano was more likely to be found at thefortieth parallel than at the fifty-second. It is a pity that these amiable old skippers, in telling oftheir acts and purposes, should have paid so little heed to. ANDRE THEVET posteritys craving for full and exact knowledge. Just howfar the good Allefonsce ever got with his Norumbega voyage,or what turned him back, we are not informed. We maysafely say that he did not succeed in sailing into the Sea ofVerrazano, and the next summer we find him once morewith Roberval on the St. Lawrence. Thither that captain 26 NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND had proceeded at the outset after parting company withAllefonsce. Of his fortunes during the next seventeenmonths our accounts are but fragmentary. Hakhiyt is un-usually brief and vague, and we have to rely largely upon amanuscript of 1556,1 written by the somewhat mendaciousAndre Thevet, who seems to have been an intimate friendof Roberval and a boon companion of the irrepressible buf-foon Rabelais. Provokingly scanty as Thevet often is, thereare times when he goes into full details, and one of hisromantic stories is worthy of mention, since it probably restsupon a basis of fact. T
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