207. Sagard says the French, on account of this affair, were menaced by eight hundred savages of different nations who were assembled at Trois Rivieres. _Vide Histoire du Canada_, 1636, Vol. I. p.42. The statement, "on estoit menace de huict cens Sauvages de diuerse nations, qui festoient assemblez es Trois Rivieres a dessein de venir surprendre les Francois & leur coupper a tous la gorge, pour preuenir la vengeance qu'ils eussent pu prendre de deux de leurs hommes tuez par les Montagnais environ la my Auril de l'an 1617," is, we think, too strong. The savages were excited and frightened by the demands of the French, who desired to produce upon their minds a strong moral impression, in order to prevent a recurrence of the murder, which was a private thing, in which the great body of the savages had no part. They could not be said to be hostile, though they prudently put themselves in a state of defence, as, under the circumstances, it was very natural they should do. 208. They were then at Trois Rivieres. 209. The moat around the habitation at Quebec was fifteen feet wide and six feet deep, constructed with a drawbridge to be taken up in case of need. _Vide_ Vol II p. 182. 210. Probably Pere le Caron, who was in charge of the mission at Quebec at that time. 211. _Vide Histoire du Canada_, par Sagard, 1636, Vol. I. p 45. 212. They arrived on St. John's day, _antea, note 205_, and consequently this was the 25th of June, 1618. 213. Jean d'Olbeau. 214. Frere Modeste Guines. _Vide Histoire du Canada_, par Sagard, a Paris, 1636, Vol. I.p. 40. 215. Joseph le Caron, Paul Huet, and Pacifique du Plessis. 216. Louis Hebert, an apothecary, settled at Port Royal in La Cadie or Nova Scotia, under Poutrincourt, was there when, in 1613, possession was taken in the name of Madame de Guercheville. He afterward took up his abode at Quebec with his family, probably in the year 1617. His eldest daughter Anne was married at Quebec to Estienne Jonquest, a Norman, which was the first marriage that took place with the ceremonies of the Church in Canada. His daughter Guillemette married William Couillard, and to her Champlain committed the two Indian girls, whom he was not permitted by Kirke to take with him to France, when Quebec was captured by the English in 1629. Louis Hebert died at Quebec on the 25th of January, 1627. _Histoire du Canada_, Vol. I. pp. 41, 591. 217. These fields were doubtless those of Louis Hebert, who was the first that came into the country with his family to live by the cultivation of the soil. 218. Platon. _Vide_ Vol. 1., note 155.