[1006] Such as Wytfliet’s Histoire des Indes; D’Aubigné’s Histoire universelle (1626); De Laet’s Novus orbis, book iv.; Lescarbot’s Nouvelle France; Champlain’s Voyages; Brantôme’s Grands capitaines François (also in his Œuvres). Faillon (Colonie Française, i. 543) bases his account on Lescarbot.
[1007] Cf. Shea’s edition with notes, where (vol. i. p. 71) Charlevoix characterizes the contemporary sources; and he points out how the Abbé du Fresnoy, in his Méthode pour étudier la géographie, falls into some errors.
[1008] American Biography, vol. vii. (new series).
[1009] Boston, 1865. Mr. Parkman had already printed parts of this in the Atlantic Monthly, xii. 225, 536, and xiv. 530.
[1010] Paris, 1875. He gives (p. 517) a succinct chronology of events.
[1011] Cf., for instance, Bancroft’s United States, chap. ii.; Gay’s Popular History of the United States, chap. viii.; Warburton’s Conquest of Canada, app. xvi.; Conway Robinson’s Discoveries in the West, ii. chap. xvii. et seq.; Kohl’s Discovery of Maine; Fairbanks’s Florida; Brinton’s Floridian Peninsula,—among American writers; and among the French,—Guérin, Les navigateurs Français (1846); Ferland, Canada; Martin, Histoire de France; Haag, La France protestante; Poussielgue, “Quatre mois en Floride,” in Le tour du monde, 1869-1870; and the Lives of Coligny by Tessier, Besant, and Laborde. There are other references in Gaffarel, p. 344.
There is a curious article, “Dominique de Gourgues, the Avenger of the Huguenots in Florida, a Catholic,” in the Catholic World, xxi. 701.
[1012] The Acts of the Apostles, xxviii. 2-6.
[1013] [See Chapter I.—Ed.]
[1014] Llorente adds that he had a personal acquaintance with a branch of the family at Calahorra, his own birthplace, and that the first of the family went to Spain, under Ferdinand III., to fight against the Moors of Andalusia. He also traces a connection between this soldier and Las Cases, the chamberlain of Napoleon, one of his councillors and companions at St. Helena, through a Charles Las Casas, one of the Spanish seigneurs who accompanied Blanche of Castile when she went to France, in 1200, to espouse Louis VIII.