single gate, above which, as well as along the first palisade, ran a kind of gallery, reached by ladders, and well provided with pieces of rock and pebbles for the defence of the place. The inhabitants of the town spoke the Huron language. They received the French very well. ... Cartier visited the mountain at the foot of which the town lay, and gave it the name of Mont Royal, which has become that of the whole Island [Montreal]. From it he discovered a great extent of country, the sight of which charmed him. ... He left Hochelaga on the 5th of October, and on the 11th arrived at Sainte Croix." Wintering at this place, where his crews suffered terribly from the cold and from scurvy, he returned to France the following spring. "Some authors ... pretend that Cartier, disgusted with Canada, dissuaded the king, his master, from further thoughts of it; and Champlain seems to have been of that opinion. But this does not agree with what Cartier himself says in his memoirs. ... Cartier in vain extolled the country which he had discovered. His small returns, and the wretched condition to which his men had been reduced by cold and scurvy, persuaded most that it would never be of any use to France. Great stress was laid on the fact that he nowhere saw any appearance of mines; and then, even more than now, a strange land which produced neither gold nor silver was reckoned as nothing." _Father Charlevoix, History of New France (translated by J. G. Shea), book 1._ ALSO IN: _R. Kerr, General Collection of Voyages, part 2, book 2, chapter 12 (volume 6)_. _F. X. Garneau, History of Canada, volume 1, chapter 2._ AMERICA: A. D. 1535-1540. Introduction of Printing in Mexico. See PRINTING, &c.: A. D. 1535-1709. AMERICA: A. D. 1535-1550. Spanish Conquests in Chile. See CHILE: A. D. 1450-1724. AMERICA: A. D. 1536-1538. Spanish Conquests of New Granada. See COLOMBIAN STATES: A. D. 1536-1731. AMERICA: A. D. 1541-1603. Jacques Cartier's last Voyage. Abortive attempts at French Colonization in Canada.