6 (p. 19).--Cartier (_Brief Récit_, fol. 12) describes "a sort of fish as large as porpoises, but not like them; their bodies well-shaped, and heads like that of the greyhound; as white as snow, without any spot; in that river [Saguenay] there are a great number of them, living between the sea and the fresh water. The people of that country call them Adhothuys; and we were told that they are very good to eat." Packard, in _Labrador Coast_ (N. Y., 1891), p. 443, mentions the white whale (_Delplanapterus Catodon_, Linn.) as "not uncommonly seen passing in schools along the [Labrador] coast, in the summer time." 7 (p. 19).--_Gaspay bay_: on the coast of Gaspé, (see vol. iii., _note_ 45), south of Cape Rosière. This bay appears on De Fer's map (1705), as G. de Gas; its present name is Gaspé. 8 (p. 35).--_But one wife_: Cf. the accounts of Membertou's unique monogamy, given by Lescarbot and Biard,--vol. i., p. 215; and vol. ii., pp. 23, 227, 229. 9 (p. 35).--_Basque scaffold_: a point two leagues above Tadoussac; mentioned by Champlain, and shown on a map by Lotter (n. d.), as Cape Chafaut aux Basques; Bellin (1744) names it Echafaut aux Basques; obviously a place used by the Basque fishermen for drying fish. Margry says (_Navig. Fr._, pp. 113, 114): "The Basques made their way at first to the ports on the eastern shore of the island [Newfoundland]. There they invented the process of drying codfish, that they might carry a greater quantity on their ships. This was done on scaffolds, which they called _pignalac_; and the "shipowners of St. Jean de Luz and Siboure sent out vessels expressly for this catching and drying fish, independently of those sent for the whale fishery." 10 (p. 37).--_St. Lawrence Island_: evidently another name for the Isle of Orleans. 11 (p. 41).--These were the sons of Gervase (or Jervis) Kirk (see vol. iv., _note_ 46), who was born in 1566, in Derbyshire, England, the eldest son of a gentleman's family; later, he became a merchant in London. In 1596, he married Elizabeth Gondon, of Dieppe, France, by whom he had seven children. His sons David, Lewis, and Thomas, were aged respectively 32, 30 and 26 years, at the time Quebec was taken. They were all prominent members of the Merchant Adventurers to Canada. Gervase died Dec. 17, 1629. David was knighted by Charles I., in 1633, as a reward for his services in taking Quebec; but (according to H. Kirke) neither he nor his heirs ever received any pecuniary recompense for the heavy losses he incurred in that enterprise, although, in the negotiations for the restitution of Canada, the French King had agreed to pay the sum of 82,700 livres to Kirk. Brymner (_Can. Archives_, 1894, pp. viii.-x.) gives a document (probably 1683) detailing the claims of the Kirks to the territories of Nova Scotia and Quebec.