Their new chief, Agouhanna, with six canoes filled with men, women, and children, put off from the shore.

The moment was a difficult one.

Donnacona and all his fellow-captives, except only one little girl, had died in France.

Cartier dared not tell the whole truth to the natives, and he contented himself with saying that Donnacona was dead, but that the other Indians had become great lords in France, had married there and did not wish to return.

Whatever may have been the feeling of the tribe at this tale, the new chief at least was well pleased.