Produced by Karl Hagen, Eleni Christofaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (www.canadiana.org)) Transcriber's Note. A list of the changes made can be found at the end of the book. Formatting and special characters are indicated as follows: _italic_ =bold= ^{9} -us abbreviation ^{superscript} THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS VOL. II The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents TRAVELS AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE JESUIT MISSIONARIES IN NEW FRANCE 1610-1791 THE ORIGINAL FRENCH, LATIN, AND ITALIAN TEXTS, WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES; ILLUSTRATED BY PORTRAITS, MAPS, AND FACSIMILES EDITED BY REUBEN GOLD THWAITES Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol. II ACADIA: 1612-1614 CLEVELAND: =The Burrows Brothers Company=, PUBLISHERS, M DCCC XCVI COPYRIGHT, 1896 BY THE BURROWS BROTHERS CO ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _The Imperial Press, Cleveland_ EDITORIAL STAFF Editor REUBEN GOLD THWAITES Translator from the French JOHN CUTLER COVERT Assistant Translator from the French MARY SIFTON PEPPER Translators from the Latin { WILLIAM FREDERIC GIESE { JOHN DORSEY WOLCOTT Translator from the Italian MARY SIFTON PEPPER Assistant Editor EMMA HELEN BLAIR CONTENTS OF VOL. II PREFACE TO VOLUME II 1 DOCUMENTS:-- IX. Lettre au R. P. Provincial, à Paris. _Pierre Biard_; Port Royal, January 31, 1612 3 X. Missio Canadensis. Epistola ex Porturegali in Acadia, transmissa ad Praepositvm Generalem Societatis Jesu. _Pierre Biard_; Port Royal, January 31, 1612 57 XI. Relation Dernière de ce qui s'est Passé au Voyage du Sieur de Potrincourt. _Marc Lescarbot_; Paris, 1612 119 XII. Relatio Rervm Gestarum in Novo-Francica Missione, Annis 1613 & 1614 193 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA: VOLUME II 287 NOTES 291 [Illustration] ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. II I. Photographic facsimile of General Map, from _Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain_, (Paris, 1613) _Facing_ 56