Nearly a year elapsed before he again reached his settlement,—only to find it reduced to two individuals. After a winter of great suffering, Pontgravé, who had been left in command during the absence of De Monts, weary with waiting for succor, had determined to sail for France, leaving these two brave men to guard the buildings and other property. He had but just sailed when Jean de Poutrincourt, the lieutenant of De Monts, arrived with the long-expected help. Measures were immediately taken to recall Pontgravé, if he could be found on the coast, and these were fortunately successful. He was discovered at Cape Sable, and at once returned; but soon afterward he sailed again for France.[405] Another winter was passed at Port Royal, pleasantly enough according to the accounts of Champlain and Lescarbot; but in the early summer, orders to abandon the settlement were received from De Monts, whose monopoly of the trade with the Indians had been rescinded. The settlers reluctantly left their new home, and the greater part of them reached St. Malo, in Brittany, in October, 1607. The first attempt at French colonization in Acadia was as abortive as Popham’s English colony at the mouth of the Sagadahock in the following year.[406] [Illustration: BUILDINGS ON ST. CROIX ISLAND. [This cut follows Champlain’s in the 1613 edition. It represents,—_A_, De Monts’s house. _B_, Common building, for rainy days. _C_, Storehouse. _D_, Building for the guard. _E_, Blacksmith’s shop. _F_, Carpenter’s house. _G_, Well. _H_, Oven. _I_, Kitchen. _L_ and _M_, Gardens. _N_, Open square. _O_, Palisade. _P_, Houses of D’Orville, Champlain, and Champdoré. _Q_, Houses of Boulay and artisans. _R_, houses of Genestou, Sourin, and artisans. _T_, Houses of Beaumont, la Motte Bourioli, and Fougeray. _V_, Curate’s house. _X_, Gardens. _Y_, River.—ED.]] Three years later, Poutrincourt, to whom De Monts had granted Port Royal, set sail from Dieppe to found a new colony on the site of the abandoned settlement. The deserted houses were again occupied, and a brighter future seemed to await the new enterprise. But this expectation was doomed to a speedy disappointment. [Illustration: PORT ROYAL, OR ANNAPOLIS BASIN (_after Lescarbot_). After a few years of struggling existence, the English colonists determined to expel the French as intruders on the territory belonging to them. In 1613 an English ship, under the command of Captain Samuel Argall, appeared off Mount Desert, where a little company of the French, under the patronage of the Comtesse de Guercheville,[407] had established themselves for the conversion of the Indians. [Illustration: PORT ROYAL (_after Champlain_).