and a mark of good-will.

It has been asserted that this landing on a point called
Cap-des-Sauvages by Cartier, in memory of the incident,
took place on the New Brunswick shore. But the weight of
evidence is in favour of considering that North Cape in
Prince Edward Island deserves the honour. As the event
occurred on July 1, some writers have tried to find a
fortunate coincidence in the landing of the discoverer
of Canada on its soil on the day that became, three
hundred and thirty-three years later, Dominion Day. But
the coincidence is not striking. Cartier had already
touched Canadian soil at Brest, which is at the extreme
end of the Quebec coast, and on the Magdalen Islands.

Cartier's boats explored the northern end of prince Edward
Island for many miles. All that he saw delighted him.
'We went that day on shore,' he wrote in his narrative,
'in four places, to see the goodly sweet and smelling
trees that were there. We found them to be cedars, yews,
pines, white elms, ash, willows, With many other sorts
of trees to us unknown, but without any fruit. The grounds
where no wood is are very fair, and all full of peason
[peas], white and red gooseberries, strawberries,
blackberries, and wild corn, even like unto rye, which
seemed to have been sowed and ploughed. This country is
of better temperature than any other land that can be
seen, and very hot. There are many thrushes, stock-doves,
and other birds. To be short, there wanteth nothing but
good harbours.'