Here Roberval paused to refit his ships and to replenish his stores.

While he was still in the harbour, one day, to his amazement, Cartier sailed in with the five ships that he was bringing away from his abandoned settlement at Charlesbourg Royal.

Cartier showed to his superior the 'diamonds' and the gold that he was bringing home from Canada.

He gave to Roberval a glowing account of the country that he had seen, but, according to the meagre details that appear in the fragment in Hakluyt's Voyages, he made clear that he had been compelled to abandon his attempt at settlement.

'He could not with his small company withstand the savages, which went about daily to annoy him, which was the cause of his return into France.' Except what is contained in the few sentences of this record we know nothing of what took place between Roberval and Cartier.