ATTEMPTS AT SETTLEMENT.

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posed of young noblemen and amateur colonists, failed, as CHAP. might have been expected. In the second attempt they went to the other extreme, the colonists were criminals, 1542. drawn from the prisons of France.

During the winter Cartier hung one of them for theft; put some in irons.; and whipped others, men and women, for minor faults. In the spring, just as Roberval himself arrived with a reinforcement, he slipped off to France, heartily disgusted with his winter's occupation. Roberval remained about a year, and then returned home, perfectly willing to resign the viceroyalty of Norimbega, and retire to his estates in Picardy. After a lapse of fifty years, a successful attempt was made by the French to colonize the same territory.