[166] Walker, _Journal_, 124, 125. [167] King, _Journal_. [168] Vetch, _Journal_. [169] King, _Journal_. [170] Compare Walker, _Journal_, 45, and _Ibid._, 127, 128. He elsewhere intimates that his first statement needed correction. [171] _Report of ye Soldiers, etc., Lost._ (Public Record Office.) This is a tabular statement, giving the names of the commissioned officers and the positions of their subordinates, regiment by regiment. All the French accounts of the losses are exaggerations. [172] _Hill to Dudley, 25 August, 1711._ [173] Vetch, _Journal_. His statement is confirmed by the report of the council. [174] _Report of a Consultation of Sea Officers belonging to the Squadron under Command of Sir Hovenden Walker, Kt., 25 August, 1711._ Signed by Walker and eight others. [175] _Vetch to Walker, 26 August, 1711._ [176] Walker, _Journal, Introduction_, 25. [177] Kalm, _Travels_, ii. 135. [178] Schuyler, _Colonial New York_, ii. 48. [179] _Vaudreuil au Ministre, 25 Octobre, 1711._ [180] _Deposition de Francois de Marganne, Sieur de la Valterie; par devant Nous, Paul Dupuy, Ecuyer, Conseiller du Roy, etc., 19 Octobre, 1711._ [181] _Monseigneur de Saint-Vallier et l'Histoire de l'Hopital General de Quebec_, 209. [182] Juchereau, _Histoire de l'Hotel-Dieu de Quebec_, 473-491. La Ronde Denys says that nearly one thousand men were drowned, and that about two thousand died of injuries received. _La Ronde au Ministre, 30 Decembre, 1711._ [183] Some exaggeration was natural enough. Colonel Lee, of the Rhode Island contingent, says that a day or two after the wreck he saw "the bodies of twelve or thirteen hundred brave men, with women and children, lying in heaps." _Lee to Governor Cranston, 12 September, 1711._ [184] Walker's Journal was published in 1720, with an Introduction of forty-eight pages, written in bad temper and bad taste. The Journal contains many documents, printed in full. In the Public Record Office are preserved the Journals of Hill, Vetch, and King. Copies of these, with many other papers on the same subject, from the same source, are before me. Vetch's Journal and his letter to Walker after the wreck are printed in the _Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society_, vol. iv. It appears by the muster-rolls of Massachusetts that what with manning the coast-guard vessels, defending the frontier against Indians, and furnishing her contingent to the Canada expedition, more than one in five of her able-bodied men were in active service in the summer of 1711. Years passed before she recovered from the effects of her financial exhaustion. CHAPTER IX. 1712-1749. LOUISBOURG AND ACADIA. Peace of Utrecht.--Perilous Questions.--Louisbourg founded.--Annapolis attacked.--Position of the Acadians.--Weakness of the British Garrison.--Apathy of the Ministry.--French Intrigue.--Clerical Politicians.--The Oath of Allegiance.--Acadians refuse it: their Expulsion proposed; they take the Oath.