Particularly I beg Your Reverence and all our Reverend Fathers and Brothers to be pleased to remember in your most earnest devotions both us and these poor souls, miserable slaves under the tyranny of Satan. May it please this benign Savior [76] of the world, whose grace is denied to no one, and whose bounty is ever beyond our merits, may it please him, I say, to look down with a pitying eye upon these poor tribes, and to gather them soon into his family, in the happy freedom of the favored children of God. Amen! De Port-Royal, ce dernier de Ianvier 1612. Cependant que j'escrivois ces lettres, le navire qu'on a envoyé pour nostre secours, est Dieu mercy arrivé sain et sauf, et dans iceluy nostre Frere Gilbert du Thet. Celuy pourra sçavoir l'aise qu'en avons receu et recevons, qui aura cogneu les dangers et necessités où nous estions. Dieu soit beny. Amen. De V. R. filz et serviteur bien humble en Nostre Seigneur. PIERRE BIARD. NOTES: [I.] Vieux mot employé pour signifier exténué de travaux. From Port Royal, this last day of January, 1612. While I was writing these letters, the ship which was sent to our assistance has, thank God, arrived safe and sound, and in it our Brother Gilbert du Thet. He, who knows the dangers and necessities we were in, will appreciate the joy we felt and that we feel at its arrival. God be praised. Amen. Of Your Reverence, the son and very humble servant in Our Lord. PIERRE BIARD. FOOTNOTES: [II.] An old word used to signify weakened by hard labor.--[Carayon.] [Illustration: CARTE GEOGRAPHIQVE DE LA NOVVELLE FRANSE FAICTTE PAR LE SIEVR DE CHAMPLAIN SAINT TONGOIS CAPPITAINE ORDINAIRE POVR LE ROY EN LA MARINE. REDUCED FACSIMILE OF GENERAL MAP, DRAWN BY CHAMPLAIN IN 1612, FROM _Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain_ (PARIS, 1613).] X BIARD'S EPISTOLA ex Portu-regali in Acadia Januarii 31, [1612] DILLINGEN: MEYER'S PRESS, n. d. SOURCE: Reprinted from O'Callaghan's Reprint, No. 1. _Missio Canadensis_ EPISTOLA ex Portu-regali in ACADIA transmissa Ad Praepositvm Generalem Societatis IESV A. R. PETRO BIARDO ejvsdem Societatis [Illustration] _Secundvm exemplar emissum in_ ANNUIS LITTERIS _Anni_ CIↃ. IↃC. XI DILINGÆ. Ex Typographéo Mayeriana, apud Melchiorem Algeyer. _Canadian Mission_ LETTER from Port Royal in ACADIA sent