Finally, we are encouraged by the situation and condition of this place, which, if it is cultivated, promises to furnish a great deal for the needs of human life; and its beauty causes me to wonder that it has been so little sought up to the present time. From this port where we now are, it is very convenient for us to spread out to the Armouchiquois, Iroquois, and Montagnais, our neighbors, which are populous nations and till the soil as we do; this situation, I say, makes us hope something for the future. For, if our Souriquois are few, they may become numerous; if they are savages, it is to domesticate and civilize them that we have come here; if they are rude, that is no reason that we should be idle; if they have until now profited little, it is no wonder, for it would be too much to expect fruit from this grafting, and to demand reason and maturity from a child. In conclusion, we hope in time to make them susceptible of receiving the doctrines of the faith and of the christian and catholic religion, and later, to penetrate [38] farther into the regions beyond, which they say are more populous and better cultivated. We base this hope upon Divine goodness and mercy, upon the zeal and fervent charity of all good people who earnestly desire the kingdom of God, particularly upon the holy prayers of Your Reverence and of our Reverend Fathers and very dear Brothers, to whom we most affectionately commend ourselves. 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.] [39] Lettre du Père Ennemond Masse au R. P. Claude Aquaviva, Général de la Compagnie de Jésus. _(Traduite sur l'original latin._) PORT-ROYAL, 10 juin 1611. MON TRÈS-RÉVÉREND PÈRE, Pax Christi.