THE SECOND VOYAGE--STADACONA At the time when Cartier ascended the St Lawrence, a great settlement of the Huron-Iroquois Indians existed at Quebec.

Their village was situated below the heights, close to the banks of the St Charles, a small tributary of the St Lawrence.

Here the lodges of the tribe gave shelter to many hundred people.

Beautiful trees--elm and ash and maple and birch, as fair as the trees of France--adorned the banks of the river, and the open spaces of the woods waved with the luxuriant growth of Indian corn.

Here were the winter home of the tribe and the wigwam of the chief.