disappearance of these children of the forest. Truly does the poet say that "God fulfils Himself in many ways," yet none the less the surviving white man may well feel some misgiving when he thinks of all his past dealings with his red brother. [Footnote 19: He had been charged some years before by a commissioner sent out by the Company of the Hundred Associates with embezzlement, and had taken part in a violent attack on the commissioner and in the seizure of his papers.] [Footnote 20: _Vie de Colbert_, vol. i. p. 502.] [Footnote 21: Quoted by Gaillardin, _Histoire du Regne de Louis XIV_, vol. iv. p. 311.] [Footnote 22: See extract from a letter written by him in Faillon, vol. iii. p. 315. The Recollet, Pere Leclercq, is uncharitable enough to hint that the canoe accident may have been made to cover a lack of the documents which the explorer professed to have had with him.] [Footnote 23: See the _Recit d'un ami de l'Abbe Galinee_, in Margry, vol. i.] [Footnote 24: Mere de l'Incarnation remarked even in her day the decrease of the native population. "When we arrived in this country," she says, "the Indians were so numerous that it seemed as if they were going to grow into a vast population; but after they were baptized God called them to Himself either by disease or by the hands of the Iroquois. It was perhaps His wise design to permit their death lest their hearts should turn to wickedness."--_Lettres Spirituelles_, edition of 1681, p. 230.] CHAPTER VII GOVERNORSHIP OF M. DE LA BARRE 1682 TO 1685