When I went back to France, I told King Henry that the land I had explored was perfect for a French settlement and that the river could be the route to Asia. A friend of the King named Pierre du Gua, Sieur de Monts, wanted to sponsor another voyage to the New World to trade furs. The King wanted me to continue to make reports and maps, make peace with the natives, convert them to Christianity, and to search for gold and silver. The King gave de Mont a ten year fur trading monopoly. I sailed to the New World with a larger fleet than the first time and brought many different skilled people like surgeons, a priest, soldiers, carpenters and stonemasons. We founded a French settlement in a land we called Acadia (now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, Cape Breton Island and Maine).
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