17 (p. 159).--This curious legend suggests the Greek myth of Pandora. Cf. a story related by Le Clercq, in his _Relation de la Gaspesie_ (Paris, 1691), pp. 310-326, of a soul that was brought back by a bereaved father from the Land of Souls, and lost through the curiosity of a woman. On the ideas of immortality current among the aborigines, see Sagard's _Canada_, pp. 497, 498; Champlain's _Voyages_ (1632), part i., p. 127; Tailhan's _Perrot_, pp. 40-43, 184, 185; Schoolcraft's _Ind. Tribes_, vol., iii., p. 60, and vol. v., p. 79; and Parkman's _Jesuits_, pp. lxxx.-lxxxiii. 18 (p. 163).--_Castelogne_: a woolen blanket. The name, originally a commercial term, and used especially in Normandy, seems to have been derived from Catalonia, Spain, where this article was manufactured. Clapin's _Dictionnaire Canadien-Français_ (Montreal, 1894) states that the name "castelogne" is still used in Canada, to designate a home-made rug of odds and ends. 19 (p. 253).--The _Mercure François_, vol. xix. (1633), p. 841, thus speaks of the influence of liquor on the Indians, and Champlain's attitude toward the traffic, in an account of the latter's voyage to Canada (1633), written by "a reliable person who made the voyage with him:" "Our Savages--not only men, but women and girls--are such lovers of brandy that they get swinishly intoxicated, since the English made them acquainted with this beverage, which causes numberless quarrels among them. When they get tipsy, they fight, and batter each other with their fists; they break into the cabins, and tear them in pieces; and in this state they may do some foul deed, and murder us,--as some time ago they threatened a sailor, and, if he had not thrown himself into the water, I know not what they might have done to him,--and thence would arise broils and commotion throughout the country. Sieur de Champlain, considering this, and realizing the misfortunes that would arise therefrom, deems it expedient to issue a stringent prohibition of traffic, in any manner whatsoever, in brandy,--under penalty of corporal punishment, and loss of his wages, for any one caught in selling brandy and wine." The missionaries of all the orders, notably the Jesuits, persistently opposed the sale of liquor to the Indians; but in this course they aroused powerful and unscrupulous enemies, as we shall see in later volumes. 20 (p. 257).--_Obole_: a small copper coin of early French currency, named from the Greek ὀβολός. Its value was one-half that of a denier tournois (which equaled one-twelfth of a sou). The obole is mentioned as early as 1329. The word is used in the present text, however, to signify, in a general way, a very small sum, in the same manner that the English often use the word "penny," or "farthing." 21 (p. 271).--For information on the elk and moose, see vol. ii., _note_ 34; on the caribou, see vol. iii., _note_ 17.