10 (p. 67).--Reference is here made to the Eskimos of Labrador. Says Prowse, (_Hist. N. F._, pp. 590, 591); "The name Esquimaux is a French corruption of the Abenaki word 'Eskimatsie,' an eater of raw flesh. The native word is 'Innuit,' meaning 'the people.' Eskimo is the Danish form of the name, and has now quite supplanted the old French name." They were probably dubbed "Excommunicated" in Biard's time, because of the marked hostility to them of all the other savage tribes in Canada; and the French early joined the latter in opposing them.--See Prowse, _ut supra_, p. 591. The missionaries found the Eskimos difficult material on which to work; although an occasional captive slave, brought to the St. Lawrence by the Indians, would yield to priestly ministrations.--See Shea's _Charlevoix_, vol. iii., p. 30. 11 (p. 69).--Reference is here made to the mouth of what is now Saco River. Choüacoët was the French rendering of a native word from which the modern Saco is derived.--_Champlain's Voyages_ (Prince Soc.), vol. ii., p. 64. 12 (p. 81).--No map could be found in the archives of the Society at Rome, where the original of this letter is preserved. 13 (p. 127).--See vol. i., _note_ 2. 14 (p. 131).--Casquet ("les Casquetes," on maps of that period): a dangerous group of rocks in the English Channel, seven miles west of Alderney. 15 (p. 133).--See _notes_ 3, 6, _ante_; and vol. i., _note_ 11. 16 (p. 133).--See _note_ 4, _ante_. 17 (p. 135).--_Matachias_, or _matachiats_; described by Champlain, in _Voyages_ (Prince Soc.), vol. i., p. 241, as "beads and braided strings, made of porcupine quills, which they dye in various colors." Lescarbot says that the Armouchiquois, like the Brazilians and Floridians, make ornaments from bits of shell, polished and strung together in bracelets, etc.; these are called _bou-re_ in Brazil, and _matachiaz_ among the Northern tribes:--See his _Nouv. France_, p. 732. 18 (p. 137).--Nuncio of Pope Paul V. to Henry IV. of France; was created a cardinal, December 2, 1615.--See Laverdière's _Champlain_, p. 492; also Faillon's _Col. Fr._, vol. i., p. 99. A fortification erected by Poutrincourt, at the entrance of Port Royal harbor, was named by him Fort d'Ubaldini.--See Lescarbot's chart of Port Royal, in vol. i. of this series. 19 (p. 141).--Named by Champlain, from its forked shape, now known as Cape Split; a promontory at entrance of Mines Bay, where it opens into the Bay of Fundy. Jean Blaeu's map _Extrema Americæ_ (1620), shows it as C. de Poitrincourt; for explanation of this name, see Laverdière's _Champlain_, pp. 271, 272.