HUMA 1125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Tadoussac, Anticosti Island, Wage War
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Chapter 1: brief narrative in which is contained the voyage from honfleur in normandy to the port of tadoussac in canada. Set out from honfleur on march 15th 1603. Arrived at havre de grace on the same day. Sunday, march 16th set sail once more: saw orgny and grensey which are islands on the coasts of normandy and. March 19th met seven flemish ships which were coming from the indies. March 30th great storm that caused delay. May 15th sighted islands of st. pierre. May 20th we came in sign of an island some 25-30 leagues in length which is called. Anticosti which is the entrance to the river of canada. The next day we signed gachepe, a very high land and began to enter the said river of. On may 24 dropped anchor before tadoussac. Chapter 2: good reception accorded to the french by the great sagamo of the natives of.
