10 (p. 95).--On this point, cf. Maurault (_Hist. Abenakis_, p. 95, _note_ 4): "The Abnakis always exhibited profound grief at the death of a child; the parents were inconsolable. The cause of this great sorrow was the belief of the savages that a child was wretched in the other world, because it was too young and weak to procure for itself the necessities of life there." 11 (p. 101).--The letters patent here referred to were those issued to Sir Thomas Gates and others, for the establishment of colonies in Virginia, and constituted the colonial charter. This document, dated April 10, 1606, granted some 20,000 square miles to the two companies, but claimed for the crown all of North America between 34° and 45° north latitude, presumably amounting to some 2,000,000 square miles, as the width of the continent was then understood. The text is given, with collateral and illustrative papers, in Brown's _Genesis_, pp. 52 _et seq._ 12 (p. 105).--For a graphic account of the colonial enterprises of Jean Ribaut and René de Laudonnière in Florida (1562-65), consult Parkman's _Pioneers_, pp. 33-150. Cf. Laudonnière's own narrative, and Ribaut's journal, as given in Goldsmid's _Hakluyt_, vol. xiii., pp. 407-507; also Guérin's _Navigateurs Français_, (Paris, 1846), pp. 180-204. 13 (p. 105).--Concerning these early discoveries by the French, see vol. ii., _notes_ 49, 72; and vol. iii., _notes_ 5, 9. 14 (p. 107).--Biard here refers to the colony established in 1610 by John Guy and others at Cupids Harbor (opening into Conception Bay), N. F. Lord Bacon was prominent in this enterprise, and it was his influence that secured the charter and subsidies granted to the Newfoundland Colonization Company, as it was called. The company seems to have existed till at least 1628. For Guy's charter, and letters written by him, with an account of his enterprise and of other early colonies in that region, see Prowse's _Hist. N.F._, pp. 92-133. 15 (p. 107).--The map of Ortelius (1570) shows New France as extending southward to 40°. Van der Aa's "Canada" (1619, _ca._) and Blaeu's "Extrema Americæ" (1620), give the Kennebec river as the dividing line between New England and New France; the latter region is extended by Van der Aa to the south of the Great Lakes, and as far as the Mississippi river. Winsor gives (_Cartier to Frontenac_, p. 9), a sketch reduced from a tracing of the alleged map of Denis (1506), mentioned in vol. iii, of the present series, _note_ 4.