The canoes, so these Indians explained to Cartier, had come down from Canada to fish.
Cartier did not remain long at the Saguenay.

On the next day, September 2, the ships resumed their ascent of the St Lawrence.

The navigation at this point was by no means easy.

The river here feels the full force of the tide, whose current twists and eddies among the great rocks that lie near the surface of the water.

The ships lay at anchor that night off Hare Island.