Also he was visited, ever and again, by the Breton fishing boats, which brought him supplies of necessaries and the bread and wine for celebrating Mass.

Long after his death his spirit was thought to haunt the desolate island.
Champlain and his companions passed on from Sable Island to the south-east coast of Nova Scotia, noticing as they landed here and there the abundance of rabbits[10] and sea birds, especially the Great Auk, of which they killed numbers with sticks, cormorants (whose fishy eggs they ate with enjoyment), puffins, guillemots, gulls, terns, scissorbills, divers, ospreys, buzzards, and falcons; and no doubt the typical American white-tailed sea eagles, ravens, ducks, geese, curlews, herons, and cranes.

Here and there they found the shore "completely covered with sea wolves"-- seals, of course, probably the common seal and the grey seal.

Of these they captured as many as they wanted, for the seals, like most of the birds, were quite unafraid of man.
[Footnote 10: There are no real rabbits in America.

This was probably the Polar Hare (_Lepus timidus glacialis_), or the common small varying hare (_L.