The canoes then moved down to the side of the Grande Hermine, where Donnacona spoke with Cartier's guides.

As these savages told him of the wonders they had seen in France, he was apparently moved to very transports of joy.

Nothing would satisfy him but that Cartier should step down into the canoe, that the chief might put his arms about his neck in sign of welcome.

Cartier, unable to rival Donnacona's oratory, made up for it by causing the sailors hand down food and wine, to the keen delight of the Indians.

This being done, the visitors departed with every expression of good-will.
Waiting only for a favourable tide, the ships left their anchorage, and, sailing past the Island of Orleans, cast anchor in the St Charles river, where it flows into the St Lawrence near Quebec.