received from the king. [91] He sent back also Ralleau, his secretary, to
arrange some matters concerning the voyage. They set out from the Island of
St. Croix the last day of August, 1604.

ENDNOTES:

89. This was the vessel taken from Captain Rossignol and confiscated.--
_Vide antea_, pp. 10, 12; also note 26.

90. Champlain and others often write only Pont for Pont Grave. Lescarbot
says Grave was his surname.--_Vide Histoire de la Nou. Fran_., Paris,
1612, Qvat. Liv. p. 501. To prevent any confusion, we write it Pont
Grave in all cases.

91. De Monts's charter provided for the distribution of lands to colonists.
This gift to De Poutrincourt was confirmed afterwards by the king. We
may here remark that there is the usual discrepancy in the orthography
of this name. Lescarbot, De Laet, and Charlevoix write Poutrincourt. In
his Latin epitaph, _vide Murdoch's Nova Scotia_, Vol. I. p. 59, it is
Potrincurtius, while Champlain has Poitrincourt. In Poutrincourt's
letter to the Roman Pontiff, Paul V., written in Latin, he says, _Ego
Johannes de Biencour, vulgo De Povtrincovr a vitae religionis amator et
attestor perpetuus_, etc. This must be conclusive for Poutrincourt as
the proper orthography.--_Vide His. Nov. Fra._, par Lescarbot, Paris,
1612, p. 612.




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