[124]. Cf. E. C. Cummings, “Father Biard's Relation of 1616”; paper read before the Maine Historical Society, in 1893; Proceedings, pp. 11-18. Biard's account, from the Jesuit Relations, is reprinted by C. H. Levermore, Forerunners and Competitors of the Pilgrims and Puritans (Brooklyn, 1912), vol. II, pp. 446, 522.
[125]. Brown, First Republic, p. 176; Genesis, pp. 709-23.
[126]. W. D. Williamson, History of the State of Maine (Hallowell, 1832), vol. I, p. 206, states, but without giving any authority, that there had been Jesuits at Mt. Desert for five years.
[127]. The story of his having secretly rifled La Saussaye's trunks of his papers, and then demanded them from him, seems hardly likely, in view of other facts. It rests on the authority of Biard (“Relation,” in Levermore, Forerunners, vol. II, p. 496). As to Biard's character and credibility, cf. Biggar, Trading Companies, pp. 263-65.
[128]. Biard, in Levermore, Forerunners, vol. II, p. 506. Cf. also the English account in Purchas, Pilgrimes, vol. XIX, pp. 214-16, 271.
[129]. Biard and Purchas, ubi supra; also Biencourt's complaint, in Brown, Genesis, pp. 725 ff. and Cal. State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, p. 15.
[130]. Hunter, British India, vol. I, pp. 300-304.
[131]. John Smith, Works, vol. I, p. 187.
[132]. For various states of the map, vide J. Winsor, Memorial History of Boston (Boston, 1882), vol. I, pp. 52-56.
[133]. Printed for the first time by Brown, Genesis, p. 456.