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VPon Monday being the 11 of October we came to the Port of the Ho••y Crosse, where our ships were, and found that the Masters and Mariners we had left there, had made and
reared a trench before the ships, altogither closed with great ••eeres of timber set vpright and ve∣ry well fastened togither: then had they beset the said tren••h about with peeces of Artilleti•• ••nd other necessarie things to shield and defend themselues from the power of all the countrey. So soone as the Lord of the countrey heard of our comming, the next day being the twelfth of Octo∣ber, he came to visite vs, accompanied with Taignoagny, Domagala and many others, fayning to be very glad of our comming, making much of our Captaine, who as friendly as he could, en∣tertained them, albeit they had not deserued it. Donnacona their Lord desired our Captaine the next day to come and see Canada, which he promised to doe: for the next day b••ing the 13 of the moneth, he with all his Gentlemen and fiftie Mariners very well appointed, went to visite Don∣nacona and his people, about a league from our ships. The place where they make their abode is called Stadacona.* 1.1 When we were about a stones cast from their houses, many of the inhabitants came to meete vs, being all set in a ranke, and (as their custome is) the men all on one side, & the women on the other, still dancing and singing without any ceasing: and after we had salut••d and receiued one another, our Captaine gaue them kniues and such other sleight things: then he cau∣sed all the women and children to passe along before him, giuing ech one a ring of Tin, for which they gaue him hearty thankes: that done, our Captaine was by Donnacona and Taignoagny, brought to see their houses, which (the qualitie considered) were very well prouided, and stored with such victuals as the countrey yeeldeth, to passe away the winter withall. Then they shewed vs the skins of fiue mens heads spread vpon boords as we doe vse parchment: Donnacona told vs that they were skins of Toudamani,* 1.2 a people dwelling toward the South, who continually doe warre against them. Moreouer they told vs, that it was two yeeres past that those Toudamans came to assault them, yea euen into the said riuer, in an Iland that lyeth ouer against Saguenay, where they had bin the night before, as they were going a warfaring in Hognedo, with 200 per∣sons, men, women, and children, who being all asleepe in a Fort that they had made, they were as∣saulted by the said Toudamans, who put fire round about the Fort, and as they would haue come out of it to saue themselues, they were all slaine, only fiue excepted, who escaped. For which losse they yet sorrowed, shewing with signes, that one day they would be reuenged: that done, we came to our ships againe.
Stadacona.
Toudamani dw••ling Southware•• of Canada.