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Apr 24, 1534
Explorer Journal Entry 1
Before Exploration I am Thomas from Jacques Cartier's exploration. We are about to leave on our expidition to find gold, treasure, spices, and a shipping route accross North America to East Asia. Our country, France, financed us with two carracks. Carracks are ships that are 70 feet long, 60 tons and have three masts. It is made of wood, and cloth for the masts. These ships are good for explorations because they are large to hold many men and survive rough seas. -
Apr 24, 1534
Indian Journal Entry 1
About Our Village I am Little Deer, from the Stadacona village. In our village, we eat corn, fruits we gather, beans, nuts, squash, cabbage, deer, fish, moose, buffalo, small game, and mushrooms. We live in a Longhouse that is about 120 feet long and 25 feet wide. We have 17 families living in the longhouse. Our clan animal is an eagle. Our house has a low curved roof. We have lots of decorations. It is made of wood poles and elm shingles. We use spruce sap to waterproof the house. -
Apr 26, 1534
Explorer Journal Entry 2
On Exploration On our exploration we are eating bread, water, beer, fish, salted meat, wine, and fresh livestock. We wear hats and coats made out of animal skins and we also wear armor.Some technology on our ship are astrolabes (positioning device), charts, compasses, cross-staff (to find latitude), traverse boards (a device to tell how far you've gone), and almanacs. All the other men on the ship have different jobs. I was just alerted of a storm so I cant write anymore. -
Apr 30, 1534
Indian Journal Entry 2
The Wall Today we built a wall around the village to protect us from enemy tribes. It is summer now and it is raining. In the winter it rains cold, white, fluffy powder. It is very windy in the fall. We have to make the wall strong so it doen't fall down. We built the wall because our scouts saw an enemy war party yesterday. -
May 23, 1534
Indian Journal Entry 3
Arts and Crafts Today we made corn masks, baskets out of corn and twigs, wood bowls, and pipes. We thanked all the spirits of the Earth and Sky for helping us create the useful items. -
May 31, 1534
Explorer Journal Entry 3
Jobs and Hardships The men on the ship look for land, cook food, fix leaks, make sure guns are working, steer the ship, and chart the coarse. I see another storm, bigger than the last, so we have to head off coarse. -
Jun 29, 1534
Explorer Journal Entry 4
Landfall We have spotted land! As we get closer, we spot an indian wearing deer skin clothing and moccasins. He sees us and runs into the woods. We get off our ship and follow him. When we get to their village, they offer us delicious foods and pelts, so we give them some of our knives. -
Jun 29, 1534
Indian Journal Entry 4
The Big Ship Today, I was walking along the edge of the woods looking for fish when I spotted two large ships. I ran to tell Chief Donnacona and then we prepared gifts for these strange men. When they got to our village, we let them in and gave them our finnest food and pelts in exchange for metal knives. -
Oct 15, 1534
Explorer Journal Entry 5
The Indian Village These indians treat us very kindly and they teach us how to make many arts and crafts. They feed our men great meals with some strange foods we've never seen. We plan to stay in the village through the winter months. It is starting to get colder and some of our men have gotten a disease called scurvy. -
Oct 15, 1534
Indian Journal Entry 5
The Strange Men We take the strange men into our village and we treat them very kindly. The other villagers feed them and teach them about our arts and crafts. In exchange, they teach us how to make things out of metal like jewelery and coins. They say that they want to stay through the winter. Some of their men are getting sick and we try our hardest to heal them. -
Mar 10, 1535
Explorer Journal Entry 6
Departure We are leaving the indian village this afternoon. In the end, 25 of our men died of scurvy. I am very sad because we never actually found what we were searching for. We plan on having another exploration to try again. -
Mar 10, 1535
Indian Journal Entry 6
Foreigners Leaving Today, the white men plan on leaving and going back to the land they call France. Some of our people are getting sick and we think that it is from the explorers. We plan on using the skills that the French men have taught us to advance our village.