The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
That part of the mainland appears on Ribero's map (1529) as "Tiera de
los Bacallaos," shown also by Agnese (1554), Zaltieri (1566), Martines
(1578), and in map of "Nova Francia et Canada, 1597," in Wytfleit's
_Descriptionis Ptolemaicæ Augmentum_. The name was restricted to the
southern part of the island of Newfoundland, by Ramusio (1556); to
the island of Cape Breton, by Lescarbot (1612); to an island east of
Newfoundland by De Laet (1640). The name Baccalos "still clings to an
islet about forty miles north of the capital [St. John's], in which
multitudes of sea-birds now build their nests."--Bourinot, in _Canad.
Mo._, vol. vii., p. 290. See also, Anspach's _Hist. N. F._, pp. 296,
297.
22 (p. 147).--A long, narrow inlet, nearly parallel to the sea on
western coast of Digby County, N. S., and still known as St. Mary's Bay.
23 (p. 151).--A Basque word, meaning sorcerer, corresponding to the
native _aoutmoin_. See Biard's _Relation_ of 1616, _post_. Champlain
(Laverdière's ed., p. 82) calls them _Pilotoua_; and Sagard (_Canada_,
pp. 98, 656), _Pirotois_.
24 (p. 157).--Henry II. of Bourbon; prince of Condé, born in 1588;
nephew of and next in succession to Henry IV.; a leader in the Catholic
League, and father of the great Condé. He married, in 1609, Charlotte
de Montmorency, then fifteen years old, one of the most beautiful
women of her day. The king fell in love with her, and his attempted
intrigue led to complications that almost caused a war between France
and Spain. Condé rebelled against Louis XIII., and in September, 1616,
was captured and imprisoned; but he soon afterwards regained his power,
which he retained until the ascendancy of Richelieu displaced it, in
1623; he died in 1646.
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