The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 1: Acadia, 1610-1613
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 1: Acadia, 1610-1613
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
10. (p. 61)--Lescarbot here refers to his _Histoire de la Nouvelle
France_. The first edition (Paris, 1609) is a rare prize to
collectors,--a London catalogue of 1878 pricing it at £45. The edition
of 1612 is followed in the Tross reprint (Paris, 1866); that of 1618
contains Lescarbot's assault upon the Jesuits. The fourth and sixth
books, only, were "translated out of the French into English" by P.
Erondelle, 1609. A German version of a brief summary of the work
appeared in 1613.
11. (p. 67)--The term Norembega, variously spelled, was applied
indifferently to the entire range of Acadian and New England coast;
but apparently the Penobscot is here meant. See Winsor's _N. and C.
Hist._, vol. iv., index; _Documentary History of State of Maine_, vol.
ii., pp. lii., liii.; Prince Society's ed. of _Champlain_, memoir and
index. The claim is made for Bangor, Me., that it is on the site of an
ancient town called Norumbega. Much information on this point is given
in _Maine Hist. Soc. Colls._, vols. ii., iv., v., vii., viii., and ix.
Sewall claims that the true form of Norumbegua is Arâmbec, and that it
was the name of a city of the savages, situated near the head-waters of
the Damariscotta, above Pemaquid.--_Ancient Dominions of Maine_, pp.
30-46. Horsford, in _Discovery of the Ancient City of Norembega_ and
_Defences of Norembega_ (Boston, 1890 and 1891), claims, on slender
evidence, that Watertown, Mass., occupies the site of an old town of
that name founded by Norse vikings in 1000 A. D.
12. (p. 67)--Bay of Fundy; first shown on map of Diego Homem (1558);
named by De Monts Grande Baye Française (shown on Lescarbot's chart of
Port Royal); appears as Argal's Bay, on Alexander's map (1624); Golfo
di S. Luize, on Dudley's (1647); Fundi Bay, on Moll's (1712); and Bay
of Fundy, or Argal, on that of the English and French Commissioners
(1755). Bourinot (_Canad. Mo._, vol. vii., p. 292) says that Fundy is
a corruption of _Fond de la Baie_, as the lower part of the bay was
called; he follows here Ferland's suggestion, in _Cours d'Histoire du
Canada_ (Quebec, 1861), vol. i., p. 65.
13. (p. 67)--The son of Pontgravé, who, according to Parkman
(_Pioneers_, p. 290) had exasperated the Indians by an outrage on one
of their women, and had fled to the woods.
14. (p. 69)--_Palourdes_ is Breton for a kind of shellfish.
15. (p. 73)--The Souriquois, or Micmacs, of Nova Scotia. Champlain's
map of 1632 places them east of Port Royal.
16. (p. 73)--Raphael Maffei, Maffeus Volaterranus, or Raffaello
Volterrano, savant and historian; born in Volterra 1451, died 1521 or
1522. Harrisse (_Bib. Amer. Vet._, p. 88) gives a catalogue of his
works, and says, "The _Commentary_ of Maffei has a peculiar interest
from the fact that it preceded the publication of Peter Martyr's
_Decades_" (1511-46).
Laverdière (_Champlain_, p. 70, _note_) says that _sagamo_ is a
Montagnais word; and he cites Laflèche as deriving it from _tchi_ and
_okimau_, meaning "great chief."
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