86. The Recollect Father Joseph le Caron.
87. Vide Laverdière in loco.
88. Father Denis Jamay.
89. Jean d'Olbeau and Pacifique du Plessis.
90. This refers to the volume bearing date 1613, but which may not have
been actually issued from the press till 1614.
91. Our views of the war policy of Champlain are stated at some length in
Vol I. pp 189-193.
92. Laverdière thinks it probable that Champlain left the Falls of St Louis on the 23d of June, and that the Holy Mass was celebrated on the Rivière des Prairies on the 24th, the festival of St John the Baptist.
93. This interpreter was undoubtedly Etienne Brûlé. It was a clearly defined policy of Champlain to send suitable young men among the savages, particularly to learn their language, and subsequently to act as interpreters. Brûlé is supposed to have been of this class.
94. The Lake of Two Mountains.
95. The River Ottawa, which Champlain had explored in 1613, as far as Allumet Island, where a tribe of the Algonquins resided, called later Kichesipinni. Vide Relation des Jésuites, 1640, p 34.