Wampum belts were made which illustrated events, dates, treaties of peace, &c, by a rude symbolism (figures of men and animals, upright lines, &c), and these were worked neatly on string by employing different-coloured beads.] From the eminence on which the Huron city stood, Cartier obtained a splendid view of rivers and mountains and magnificent forests, and called the place then and there, in his Norman French, Mont Real, or Royal Eminence, a name which it will probably bear for all time, though the actual city of Montreal lies a few miles below.
Montreal was the limit of Cartier's explorations on this journey.

He returned thence to "Canada" or Stadacona, where his men built a fort armed with artillery, and where his ships were anchored.

Here he had to stay from the middle of November, 1535, to the middle of April, 1536, his ships being shut in by the ice.

The experiences of the French during these five months were mostly unhappy.

At first Cartier gave himself up to the collecting of information.