fact of Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier set sail for his first voyage at 1534,under a commission from the king, hoping to discover a western passage to the wealthy markets of Asia.Start on May 10,he exployed part of Newfoundland and crew slaughtered around 1000 bird.He sencountered the native people and kidnapped chief's two sons.Donnacona,the chief, at last agreed that they could be taken, under the condition that they return with European goods to trade.Cartier also began to build diplomatic relations with the natives and back to France in September 1534.

Cartier set out his second voyage on May 19,1535.He and his men decided to spend winter at there.Scurvy brock out caused lots of people died.Cartier learned from one of the chief's son who had kidnapped by Cartier that a concoction made from a tree known as annedda would cure scurvy. this saves 85 Frenchmen.When Cartier returned France,he took the Chief with him sothat he might personally tell the tale of a country further north, called the "Kingdom of Saguenay".