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IO THE INDIAN ADVOCATE water. In return for their courtesy, he gave them knives and beads; and they continued their music till ho was beyond hearing it. When Cartier had brought his ships to the harbor and so cured them, he intimated his intention to pass in his boats up the river to Hocheloga. Donacona was loath to part with him; and invented several artifices to prevent his going thither. Among others, he contrived to dress three of his men in black and white skins, with horns on their heads, and their facos besmeared with coal, to make them resemble infernal spirit?. They were put into a canoe and passed by the ships; bran dishing their horns and making an unintelligible harangue. Donacona, with his people, pursued and took them, on which they fell down as if dead They were carried ashore into the woods, and all the savages followed them. A long discourse ensued, and the conclusion of the farce was, that these demons had brought news from the God of Hochelaga, that his coun try was so full of snow and ice, that whoever should adven ture thither would perish with the cold. The artifice afforded diversion to the French, but was too thin to deceive them. Cartier determined to proceed; and on the 19th of September, with his pinnace and two boats, began his voyage up tbe river to Hochelaga. Among the woods on the margin of the river were many vines loaded with ripe grapes, than which nothing could be a more welcome sight to Frenchmen, though the fruit was not so delicious as they had been used to taste in their own country. Along the banks were many huts of the natives; who made signs of joy as they passed; presented them with, fish; piloted them through narrow channels; carried them ashore on their backs, and helped them to get off their boats when aground. Some presented their children to them, and such as were of proper age were accepted. The water at the time of the year being low, their passage was rendered difficult; but by the friendly assistance of the natives they surmounted the obstructions. On the 28th of