[232] When Colonel Westbrook and his men came to Norridgewock in 1722, they found a paper pinned to the church door, containing, among others, the following words, in the handwriting of Rale, meant as a fling at the English invaders: "It [the church] is ill built, because the English don't work well. It is not finished, although five or six Englishmen have wrought here during four years, and the Undertaker [contractor], who is a great Cheat, hath been paid in advance for to finish it." The money came from the Canadian government. [233] _Myrica cerifera._ [234] The site of the Indian village is still called Indian Old Point. Norridgewock is the Naurantsouak, or Narantsouak, of the French. For Rale's mission life, see two letters of his, 15 October, 1722, and 12 October, 1722, and a letter of Pere La Chasse, Superior of the Missions, 29 October, 1724. These are printed in the _Lettres Edifiantes_, xvii. xxiii. [235] Pere La Chasse, in his eulogy of Rale, says that there was not a language on the continent with which he had not some acquaintance. This is of course absurd. Besides a full knowledge of the Norridgewock Abenaki, he had more or less acquaintance with two other Algonquin languages,--the Ottawa and the Illinois,--and also with the Huron; which is enough for one man. [236] This treaty is given in full by Penhallow. It is also printed from the original draft by Mr. Frederic Kidder, in his _Abenaki Indians: their Treaties of 1713 and 1717_. The two impressions are substantially the same, but with verbal variations. The version of Kidder is the more complete, in giving not only the Indian totemic marks, but also the autographs in facsimile of all the English officials. Rale gives a dramatic account of the treaty, which he may have got from the Indians, and which omits their submission and their promises. [237] It was standing in 1852, and a sketch of it is given by Winsor, _Narrative and Critical History_, v. 185. I have some doubts as to the date of erection. [238] Williamson, _History of Maine_, ii. 88, 97. Compare Penhallow. [239] _Remarks out of the Fryar Sebastian Rale's Letter from Norridgewock, 7 February, 1720_, in the _Common Place Book_ of Rev. Henry Flynt. [240] Sewall's _Memorial relating to the Kennebec Indians_ is an argument against war with them. [241] A full report of this conference was printed at the time in Boston. It is reprinted in _N. H. Historical Collections_, ii. 242, and _N. H. Provincial Papers_, iii. 693. Penhallow was present at the meeting, but his account of it is short. The accounts of Williamson and Hutchinson are drawn from the above-mentioned report. [242] _Shute to Rale, 21 February, 1718._ [243] This petition is still in the Massachusetts Archives, and is printed by Dr. Francis in _Sparks's American Biography_, New Series, xvii. 259.