From Port Royal, New France, this tenth day of June, one thousand six hundred and eleven.
Pierre BIARD.
FOOTNOTES:
[X.] Charles de Biencourt, esquire, sieur de Saint-Just and son of Monsieur de Poutrincourt. He was then nineteen or twenty years old. (Lescarbot and Champlain.)—[Carayon.]
[XI.] Thomas Robin, esquire, sieur de Cologne, living in the city of Paris. (Lescarbot.)—[Carayon.]
[XII.] Champlain and Charlevoix, who copied this, were wrong in saying the 12th of June.—[Carayon.]
[XIII.] Lescarbot says: "His father accompanied him as far as port de la Hève, a hundred leagues, more or less, from Port Royal." This makes it appear that Chachippè, Port Saint John, and la Hève are one and the same place.—[Carayon.]
[XIV.] To sail on a bowline means to sail close to the wind.—[Carayon.]
[XV.] The cormorant is a long-necked, high-stepping sea-bird, which lives upon fish.—[Carayon.]
[XVI.] "The year before he had been made a prisoner by Sieur de Potrincourt; and having slyly escaped from him, he had been obliged to wander about in the woods in great misery."—(Printed Relation.)—[Carayon.]