_Asticou_: Lescarbot calls this chief "sober, valiant, and feared, who could at a moment's notice, gather a thousand Savages." He says that, after the death of Bessabes, Asticou was successor to the former's authority.--_Nouv. France_, p. 561. Champlain says (Laverdière's ed., p. 862) that the basin of the Falls of Chaudière, on the Ottawa River, was called by the natives _Asticou_, meaning "a boiling kettle." Maurault (_Hist. Abenakis_, p. 95, _note_ 2) says that _asticou_ is an Algonkin word, meaning "caribou." He adds (p. 111), that the chief of that name was probably an Algonkin who had migrated to the Abenaki country. A post office on Mt. Desert Island is called Asticou. 17 (p. 79).--Caribou: the American woodland reindeer (_Cervus tarandus_, or _Rangifer caribou_), inhabiting the northern regions as far as the timber line. Specimens are still found in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; it is smaller than the moose or elk. Sagard (_Canada_, p. 750) calls it "caribou, or wild ass." 18 (p. 83).--_Ponamo_: Shea (_Charlevoix_, vol. vi., p. 124) translates this "dogfish," and cites J. H. Trumbull as authority for the statement that the _ponamo_ is the "tom cod" (_Morrhua pruinosa_),--the _apounanmesou_ of Rale, and the _paponaumsu_ of Roger Williams. 19 (p. 109).--See Garneau's statement, in _History of Canada_ (Bell's ed., Montreal, 1866), vol. i., p. 132: "As soon as the young attained nubile years, they were allowed all freedom,--'thought no harm of it,' to use the words of Lescarbot. From this early and unrestrained frequentation, we may deduce one cause of the limited fecundity of the native women; as well as from their practice of suckling their children for several years." Cf. Sagard's _Canada_, p. 324; in the same place (and on p. 342), he also describes the easy accouchements of the women. 20 (p. 119).--See vol. ii., _note_ 23. 21 (p. 131).--The sagamore of St. John's river; called Secondon by Champlain; accompanied Poutrincourt on his expedition to Chouacoët, and (according to Lescarbot, who calls him Chkoudun) offered to oppose, single-handed, a hostile band of natives who attacked the French.--_Nouv. France_, p. 575. 22 (p. 133).--Cartier gives the native Canadian word for "sun" as _Ysnay_ or _Isnez_.--Tross ed. of _Discovrs dv Voyage par Iaques Cartier_ (Paris, 1865), vol. i., pp. 13, 69. Lescarbot says it was _achtek_.--_Nouv. France_, p. 691.