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pounds ®* to make a Fort at the three Kivers .... and moreover 

 6,000 pounds for the countrey .... and more, made us pay a custome 

 which was the 4th part, which came to 14,000 pounds, so that wee had 

 left hut 46,000 pounds, and took away £34,000 «».... We had 

 brought by that voyage, as the Factors of the said country said, between 

 40 and 50,000 pistolls ""^ . . . . Seeing ourselves so wronged, my 

 brother did resolve to goe and demand Justice in France. It had been 

 better for him to have been contented with his losses without going 

 and spend the rest in halfe a year's time in France, having £10,000 that 

 he left with his wife, that was as good a Housewife as he. There he 

 is in France; he is paid with fair words and with promise to make him 

 goe back from whence he came; but he seeing no assurance of it, did 

 engage himselfe with a merchant of Eochell.^' 



Whatever may be said of the whereabouts of Chouart and Eadisson 

 during the summer of 1662, whether they went to James Bay or to 

 Lake Winnipeg, is open to discussion, although I believe they visited 

 James Bay. 



We have also to grapple with the puzzle contained in the few lines 

 by Father Jerome Lalemant of the 3rd May, 1662 (note 51), showing 

 what looks like a positive alihi. This will have to be explained, like 

 so many other historical contradictions caused by interpolation or acci- 

 dental misplacement of an entry in a journal similar to that of the 

 Jesuit Fathers. We must leave it for the present to the consideration 

 of students of the history of Canada. 



