We sailed in our barques the 20th day of July, and arrived at Tadoussac the 23d day of the month, where Sieur du Pont Gravé awaited us with his vessel ready and equipped. In this we embarked and set out the 3d day of the month of August. The wind was so favorable that we arrived in health by the grace of God, at Honfleur, on the 10th day of September, one thousand six hundred and sixteen, and upon our arrival rendered praise and thanks to God for his great care in preserving our lives, and delivering and even snatching us, as it were, from the many dangers to which we had been exposed, and for bringing and conducting us in health to our country; we besought Him also to move the heart of our King, and the gentlemen of his council, to contribute their assistance so far as necessary to bring these poor savages to the knowledge of God, whence honor will redound to his Majesty, grandeur and growth to his realm, profit to his subjects, and the glory of all these undertakings and toils to God, the sole author of all excellence, to whom be honor and glory. Amen.
ENDNOTES:
78. Champlain's first voyage was made in 1603, and this journal was published in 1619. It was therefore fully fifteen years since his explorations began.
79. Vide Histoire du Canada, par Sagard, Trois ed., pp 27, 28. The reader is likewise referred to the Memoir of Champlain, Vol. I. pp 122-124.
80. Bernard du Verger, a man of exalted virtue—Laverdière.
81. Robert Ubaldim was nuncio at this time. Vide Laverdière in loco.
82. Denis Jamay. Sagard writes this name Jamet.
83. Jean d'Olbeau. Vide Histoire du Canada, par Gabriel Sagard, Paris, 1636, Tross ed., Vol. I. p. 28.
84. Pacifique du Plessis was a lay-brother, although the title of Father is
given to him by several early writers. Vide citations by Laverdière in
loco, Quebec ed., Vol. IV. p. 7.
85. Read April 24. It is obvious from the context that it could not be
August. Sagard says le 24 d'Auril. Vide Histoire du Canada, Trois
ed., Vol. I. p 36.