Cartier lowered a boat, and during two hours the men rowed desperately into the wind.

For a while the tide favoured them, but even then it ran so hard as to upset one of the boats.

When the tide turned matters grew worse.

There came rushing down with the wind and the current of the St Lawrence such a turmoil of the waters that the united strength of the thirteen men at the oars could not advance the boats by a stone's-throw.

The whole company landed on the island of Anticosti, and Cartier, with ten or twelve men, made his way on foot to the west end.