It was his hope, of course, that at some point on his path the shore might fold back and disclose to him the westward passage to the fabled empires of the East.

The deep opening of the Chaleur Bay, which extended on the left hand as the ships proceeded north, looked like such an opening.

Hopes ran high, and Cartier named the projecting horn which marks the southern side of the mouth of the bay the Cape of Good Hope.

Like Vasco da Gama, when he rounded South Africa, Cartier now thought that he had found the gateway of a new world.

The cheery name has, however, vanished from the map in favour of the less striking one of Point Miscou.
Cartier sailed across the broad mouth of the bay to a point on the north shore, now known as Port Daniel.