On one occasion, also, as will appear, Cartier spoke to the Indians of what his priests had told him, but the meaning of the phrase is doubtful.
Before sailing, every man of the company repaired to the Cathedral Church of St Malo, where all confessed their sins and received the benediction of the good bishop of the town.

This was on the day and feast of Pentecost in 1535, and three days later, on May 19, the ships sailed out from the little harbour and were borne with a fair wind beyond the horizon of the west.

But the voyage was by no means as prosperous as that of the year before.

The ships kept happily together until May 26.

Then they were assailed in mid-Atlantic by furious gales from the west, and were enveloped in dense banks of fog.