"For some reason he continued on to the West Indies, where he told a Spanish officer that in northern waters he had run into ‘a sea as hot as water in a boiler’ and had altered course for fear that the water ‘should melt the pitch of their vessel.’"
— Excerpted from The Rock Observed, by Patrick O’flaherty. Source text from The Precursors of Jacques Cartier, by H.P Biggar
