Hi all, I wonder if anyone can translate this document? It's observations of a trip from La Rochell

Marjorie Geiser

Here is the link to the document, and I'll also attach it.

 

Thank you,

 

Margie

MTPichon

Observations that Talon made on the navigation from La Rochelle to Canada.

As the crossing from La Rochelle to Canada is rough and long, and that in the whole of the great ocean, there is not a single one that does not give the injured vessels or those lacking victuals or water the opportunity to refresh themselves, to make new victuals or at least to gather wood by relaunching in some lands or islands, only after eight hundred 'lieues' of travel. It is very important to choose for this navigation strong vessels equipped with a good number of sailors and provided abundantly in victuals. It is equally important to leave early at least by the fifteenth day of April to take advantage of the north and northeast winds that prevail in this season more than any other. The practice of touring the Neuvian lands shows the advantage of leaving as soon as the first season and although sometimes the ice was a great obstacle to navigation, as it rarely happens, and that it is usually dissipated by the 15th day of May, all the ship captains and the first 'Pilonr' (?) of this country conclude at the navigation

Marjorie Geiser

Thank you so much!