[41] New York Colonial Documents, vol. ix. p. 440. See also Lorin, Comte de Frontenac, chap. x.
[42] Comte de Frontenac, p. 367.
[43] Names given by the Indians to the governors of New York and Massachusetts; Corlaer being a corruption of Cuyler, a Dutchman of the early period held in high honour by them, and Kishon signifying "The Fish."
[44] See "Winthrop's Journal" in New York Colonial Documents, vol. iv. p. 193.
[45] The letter is given in Cotton Mather's Magnalia, vol. i. p. 186.
[46] New York Colonial Documents, vol. ix. p. 486.
[47] The same mistake was destined to be made in later days, more than once, under the English régime.
[48] "La Canardière (the name given to the flats where the New Englanders landed) was in those days nothing but a horrible marsh, covered with impenetrable woods thickly fringed with underbrush. So dense was the thicket that in full daylight our skirmishers were invisible to the English, who in their exasperation had nothing to guide them in firing but the smoke of their enemies' muskets."—Myrand, Sir William Phipps devant Quebec, p. 271.
[49] Premier Etablissement de la Foi, vol. ii. p. 434. As Leclercq is the one authority of importance of whom Mr. Myrand, in his discussion of this matter, makes no mention, his exact words, which I have not elsewhere seen reproduced, may be quoted: "L'amiral le suivit (le contre-amiral) d'assez près et avec précipitation; il fila tout le cable de son ancre qu'il abandonna; son pavillon fut emporté dans la rivière et laissé à notre discrétion, que nos gens allèrent pêcher."
[50] In his work already quoted, Sir William Phipps devant Quebec, Mr. Myrand goes very carefully, and in a spirit of great impartiality, into the question of the probable losses on the New England side. Those on the Canadian side he is able to establish by means of authentic records. Mr. Myrand has laid his readers under great obligations by reprinting the principal original documents bearing on the Phipps expedition, as well as by his own intelligent discussion of the whole episode.