[The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier by Stephen Leacock]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier CHAPTER IX 5/18
He landed stores and munitions and erected houses, apparently on a scale of some magnitude, with towers and fortifications and with great kitchens, halls, and living rooms.
Two ships were sent home in the autumn with news of the expedition, their leader being especially charged to find out whether the rock crystals carried back by Cartier had turned out to be diamonds.
All the other colonists remained and spent the winter in this place.
In spite of their long preparation and of their commodious buildings, they seem to have endured sufferings as great as, or even greater than, those of Cartier's men at Stadacona seven years before.
Supplies of food ran short, and even in the autumn before the stern winter had begun it was necessary to put the whole company on carefully measured rations. Disease broke out among the French, as it had broken out under Cartier, and about fifty of their number perished before the coming of the spring.
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