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Excerpt from The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier
How like or unlike the features of this picture in the town hall may be, no means of telling. Painted probably it has hung there for more than seven and the record of the earlier prints or drawi from which its artist drew his inspiration longer survives. We know, indeed, that ancient map of the eastern, coast of Amer made some ten years after the first of Carti voyages, has pictured upon it a group figures that represent the landing of 1i navigator and his followers among the India of Gaspe. It was the fashion of the time attempt by such decorations to make me vivid. Demons, deities, mythological figun and naked savages disported themselves alo the borders of the maps and helped to decor: unexplored spaces of earth and ocean. Of t] sort is the illustration on the map in questic But it is generally agreed that We have no rig to identify Cartier with any of the figures the scene, although the group as a whr undoubtedly typifies his landing upon t seacoast of Canada.
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