Text Appearing Before Image: oking towards the ships; then they all three fell flat in theboat, when the Indians came out to meet them, and guidedthem to the shore. It was afterwards explained that thesewere messengers from the god Cudraigny, to tell the French-men to go no farther lest they should perish with cold. TheFrenchmen answered that the alleged god Vv-as but a fool—thatJesus Christ would protect his followers from cold. Then theIndians, dancing and shouting, accepted this interpretation,and made no further objection. But when at a later periodCartier and his companions passed the dreary winter, first ofall Europeans, in what he called the Harbor of the Holy Cross—somewhere on the banks of the St. Charles River—he learnedbv suffering. that the threats of the god Cudraigny had someterror in them, after all. He returned to France the followingsummer, leaving no colony in the New World. For the first French efforts at actual colonization we mustlook southward on the map of America again, and trace the Text Appearing After Image: JACQUES CARTIER SETTING UP A CROSS AT GASPE. THE FRENCH VOYAGEURS. 115 career of a different class of Frenchmen. It would haveneeded but a few minor changes in the shifting scenes of his-tory to have caused North America to have been colonizedby French Protestants, instead of French Catholics. AfterVillegagnon and his Huguenots had vainly attempted a colonyat Rio Janeiro in 1555, Jean Ribaut, with other Huguenots,
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