This, at least, was the way that Cartier interpreted the simple and evident signs that the Indians made.

The commentators on Cartier's voyages have ever since sought some other explanation, supposing that no such metals existed in the country.

The discovery of the gold and silver deposits of the basin of the Ottawa in the district of New Ontario shows that Cartier had truly understood the signs of the Indians.

If they had ever seen silver before, it is precisely from this country that it would have come.

Cartier was given to understand, also, that in this same region there dwelt another race of savages, very fierce, and continually at war.
The party descended from the mountain and pursued their way towards the boats.