This Chief
Presented Two Of His Own Children To Our Captain, One Of Which Only He
Received, Being A Girl Of 7 Or 8 Years Old, Returning The Boy Who Was
Too Young, Being Only 2 Or 3 Years Of Age.
The captain entertained this
chief and his company as well as he could, presenting them all with some
trifles, with which they returned to the shore well pleased.
This chief
and his wife came down afterwards to Canada to visit their child, and
brought with them some small presents for our captain.
[Footnote 47: By Canada in the text, the lordship belonging to Donnacona
seems meant, which appears to have been what is now called the Isle of
Orleans. - E.]
From the 19th to the 28th of September, we sailed up this great river,
never losing an hour of time, finding the whole land on both sides as
pleasant a country as could be desired, full of fine tall trees, as oak,
elm, walnut, cedar, fir, ash, box, willow, and great store of vines
loaded with grapes, so that when any of our people went on shore, they
brought back as many as they could carry. There were likewise, cranes,
swans, geese, ducks, pheasants, partridges, thrushes, blackbirds,
finches, redbreasts, nightingales, sparrows, and many other birds like
those of France in vast abundance. On the 28th of September we came to a
wide lake, or enlargement of the river, 5 or 6 leagues broad and 12
long, which we called the Lake of Angoulesme[48], all through which we
went against the tide, having only two fathoms water.
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