At my departure from the settlement I took leave of the holy Fathers, Sieur de la Mothe, and all the others who were to stay there, giving them to expect that I would return, God assisting, with a good number of families to people the country. I embarked on the 26th of July, together with the Fathers Paul and Pacifique, [227] the latter having wintered here once and the other having been here a year and a half, who were to make a report of what they had seen in the country and of what could be done there. We set out on the day above mentioned from the settlement for Tadoussac, where we were to embark for France. We arrived the next day and found our vessels ready to set sail. We embarked, and left Tadoussac for France on the 13th of the month of July, 1618, and arrived at Honfleur on the 28th day of August, the wind having been favorable, and all being in good spirits. ENDNOTES: 201. Champlain made a voyage to New France in 1617, but appears to have kept no journal of its events. He simply observes that nothing occurred worthy of remark. _Vide_ issue of 1632, Quebec ed., p. 969. Sagard gives a brief narrative of the events that occurred that year. Vol. I. pp. 34-44. 202. Eustache Boulle. His father was Nicolas Boulle, Secretary of the King's Chamber, and his mother was Marguerite Alix. _Vide_ Vol. I. p. 205 _et passim_. 203. Nicolas de La Mothe, or de la Motte le Vilin. He had been Lieutenant of Saussaye in 1613, when Capt. Argall captured the French colony at Mount Desert. _Vide Les Voyages de Champlain_, 1632, Quebec ed., p. 773; _Relation de la Nouvelle France_, Pere Biard, p. 64. 204. _Fauquets_. Probably the common Tern, or Sea Swallow. _Sterna hirundo_. Peter Kalm, on his voyage in 1749, says "Terns, _sterna hirundo, Linn_, though of a somewhat darker colour than the common ones, we found after the forty-first degree of north latitude and forty-seventh degree of west longitude from _London_, very plentifully, and sometimes in flocks of some hundreds; sometimes they settled, as if tired, on our ship." _Kalm's Travels_, 1770, Vol. I. p. 23. 205. St. John's day was June 24th. 206. According to Sagard they were assassinated about the middle of April, 1617. _Hist. Canada_, Vol. I. p. 42.