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How She Got Off The Island

The mechanism of Marguerite’s rescue is not described in precise detail across all sources, but the broad outline is consistent: she was eventually spotted by Breton fishermen who were working in the waters of the Gulf of St.

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Breton fishermen — from the Brittany region of northwestern France — were among the most experienced and most active fishermen in the North Atlantic in the sixteenth century.

The waters off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St.