. 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, ost anchor,there is not above the length of two cables. And ifthou wouldst go out by the west side, thou must sailnear the isle by the starboard, and give room untothe isle upon the larboard at the coming forth; andwhen thou art not past a cables length out thou mustsail hard by the isles on the larboard side, by reasonof a sunken flat which lieth on the starboard, and thoushalt sail so on to the until thou come in sightof
. 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, ost anchor,there is not above the length of two cables. And ifthou wouldst go out by the west side, thou must sailnear the isle by the starboard, and give room untothe isle upon the larboard at the coming forth; andwhen thou art not past a cables length out thou mustsail hard by the isles on the larboard side, by reasonof a sunken flat which lieth on the starboard, and thoushalt sail so on to the until thou come in sightof a rock which shineth, which is about half a leaguein the sea distant from the isles, and thou shalt leaveit on the larboard (and from the Isles of the Demoi-selle unto Newfoundland the sea is not in breadthabove thirty-six leagues, because that Newfoundland,even unto Cape Breton, runneth not but ). Between the Isles of the Demoiselle and the Isles 247 COURSE OF JEAN ALPHONSE of Blanc Sablon there be many isles and good harbors;and on this coast there are falcons and hawks andcertain fowls which seem to be pheasants.^ The Isles ^. mDiPowoQ^yy^W. 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 Thiennot.
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