17. (p. 73)--Berosus (325-255 B. C., _circa_), a Chaldean priest, astrologer, and historian. His best known work is the _Babylonica_, a history of Babylonia; its remaining fragments have been reproduced by several European writers, especially in Richter's _Berosi Chald. Historiæ quae supersunt_ (Leipsic, 1825). 18. (p. 75)--The Tolosains were a tribe of the Volcæ of Gaul. Another tribe of the Volcæ were the Tectosages--so called from their _sagum_ (frock or cloak). 19. (p. 75)--Membertou was chief of all the Micmac groups from Gaspé to Cape Sable. Champlain writes, that he was "a friendly savage, although he had the name of being the worst and most traitorous man of his tribe." Lescarbot called him "the _chef d'oeuvre_ of Christian piety," and Biard had strong faith in him. He claimed to remember the first visit of Cartier (1534). 20. (p. 77)--Biard, six years later, complains bitterly of this overhaste in baptizing, declaring that these savages, when he went among them in 1611, did not know the first principles of the Faith, and had even forgotten their Christian names. 21. (p. 81)--In the original edition, pp. 25 and 26, apparently through an error in make-up, are verbal repetitions of the two preceding pages. This duplication has been omitted in the present edition. 22. (p. 105)--Marked changes occurred in the population of the St. Lawrence valley, between the visits of Cartier (1535) and Champlain (1603). Morgan, in _League of the Iroquois_ (Rochester, 1851), p. 5, maintains the correctness of a tradition that the aborigines whom Cartier found at Hochelaga were Iroquois, and that they then were subject to the Algonkins, whom Champlain found in possession of the valley. Cf. Parkman's _Pioneers_, p. 208, and Schoolcraft's _Hist. of Indian Tribes of the U. S._, vol. vi., pp. 33, 188. For further treatment of the migrations of the Iroquois, see Introduction to Hale's _Iroquois Book of Rites_ (Phila., 1883), and Faillon's _Col. Fr._, vol. i., pp. 524, _et seq._ 23. (p. 107)--_Tabagie._ A feast described fully in one of the later Relations. 24. (p. 107)--This easy victory of the French and Algonkins over the Iroquois (July 29, 1609), on the western shores of Lake Champlain, cost New France dearly, as it secured for the struggling colony the deadly enmity of the most warlike savages on the continent, for nearly a century and a half. It was impossible for New France to make permanent headway when sapped by such an enemy. Slafter's exhaustive notes to _Champlain's Voyages_ (Prince Soc.), vol. i., p. 91, and vol. ii., p. 223, make it clear that the site of this momentous skirmish was Ticonderoga.