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The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier

CHAPTER VII
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The northern cold was soon upon them in all its rigour.

The ships were frozen in at their moorings from the middle of November till April 15.

The ice lay two fathoms thick in the river, and the driving snows and great drifts blotted out under the frozen mantle of winter all sight of land and water.

The French could scarcely stir from their quarters.

Their fear of Indian treachery and their ignorance of the trackless country about them held them imprisoned in their ships.


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