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Title: The picturesque St. Lawrence
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
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Publisher: New York: Macmillan
Contributing Library: Scott - York University Libraries
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. Griffins were supposed to infest thegloomy mountains of Labrador; and fiends,with wings, horns and tail, were said to havetaken possession of an island north of New-foundland. Voyagers passing this Isle ofDemons heard the din of infernal orgies; andthe mariners who had occasion to set foot on itsshores would never venture alone into thehaunted woods. It was even affirmed that theIndians had abandoned the island, so tormentedwere they by the imps of darkness. Fishermen and explorers gradually madeknown the contour of Newfoundland and theadjoining mainland; but the first person to goup the St. Lawrence was Jacques Carder. Hewas a man who came of a family of hardy sailors,and had gone to sea as a mere boy. Later hebecame a corsair roaming the high seas in searchof weaker vessels to capture, generally, thoughnot always, those of a nation with which hisown chanced to be at war; and his ideas ofright and wrong were never very clear. When hesailed from France in 1534 on his earliest voyage
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ai The Earliest Explorers 5 to the New World he was forty years old, witha well-established reputation for courage andenergy. This venture was made in the hope ofadding to his own and his countrys prosperityby finding a short route to China and India.His two little vessels were smaller than mostmodern yachts, but they safely crossed the path-less waste of waters, and at the end of threeweeks the voyagers sighted Newfoundland andput into a harbor to repair their ships. Thenthey sailed northward to the coast of Labradorwhich looked so dreary, even in the month ofJune, that they were persuaded it must be theland told of in the Bible, set apart for Cain; andthe inhabitants were so unfriendly it seemedquite likely they were that outcasts descendants. Carrier passed between Labrador and New-foundland through the Straits of Belle Isle andcruised southward to the coast of New Bruns-wick where he entered Miramichi Bay. Whilethere so many savages paddled out in theircanoes to see the wonderful

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