Jacques Cartier and His Four Voyages to Canada

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Excerpt from Jacques Cartier and His Four Voyages to Canada: An Essay, With Historical, Explanatory and Philological Notes It is with the third mentioned of these composi tions that I have now to deal, and I will brie¿y draw attention to the salient points of the essay in question. Mr. Stephens himself, in a few prefatory words, informs us that its motif, if it may be so called, has been to give all the facts concerning Jacques Cartier known up to the present time and he believes that his pages contain everything of value now known about Cartier. First, then, an account is given of the brave explorer's life, of which, as we are all aware, not much can now be ascertained, apart from what we learn from the Voyages. Next, Mr. Stephens has translated from the original French. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.