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     boats. They came out in the same manner, after which 
     
     all the fish were taken to the roadstead for loading. One 
     
     can no more go there at present, its entrances being 
     
     closed up, and the risk too great. That which induced 
     
     them to go there was the abundance of fish which exists 
     
     on this coast. Besides they were near the Banc aux 
     
     Orphelins (Orphan Bank) on which the fish are as large 
     
     as those of the Grand Banc. The sea enters very far 
     
     into parts of this island, and thus produces great 
     
     meadows, and many ponds. In all these places water- 
     
     fowl are abundant, and there occurs plenty of feeding- 
     
     ground. They make their nests, and moult, there. One 
     
     finds here Cranes, (and) Geese white and gray as in 
     
     France. As for Moose, there are none of them. There 
     
     are Caribou, which are another species of Moose. They 
     
     have not such strong antlers: the hair is denser and 
     
     longer, and nearly all white. They are excellent to eat. 
     
     Their flesh is whiter than that of Moose. Few of them 
     
     are found there; the Indians find them too good to let 
     
     them increase. This beast has the brain divided into two 
     
     by a membrane which makes it like two brains.’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     From the geographical point of view this descrip- 
     
     tion adds little to that of Cartier. Unless he was 
     
     actually suppressing his information, because of com- 
     
     petition, Denys gives no hint that he knew anything 
     
     of the magnificent harbors which today boast the 
     
     names of Charlottetown, Summerside, and George- 
     
     town. So too his account of the woods and of the fur- 
     
     bearing animals leaves much to be desired. On the 
     
     whole it would be true to say that during the six- 
     
     teenth and seventeenth centuries the island was 
     
    
   
   
    
     7 Pub. Champ. Soc., No. 2, pp. 207-209.