ON CAPE BEETON. 



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the following testimonial of the fidelity of a well known Micmac chief of old times from an 

 ancient document which his descendant was in the habit of taking on board the French 

 men-of-war from the Newfoundland coast when they anchored at Sydney — as is their prac- 

 tice every summer —for the purpose of stimulating the generosity of the officers and men. 



Jean Louis Comte de Kaymond, Chevalier, Seigneur 

 d'Oyé, La Tour, ey autres lieux, Maréchal des 

 Camps et armées du Roi, Lieutenant pour sa 

 Majesté des villes et du cliâteau d'Angoulème, 

 Gouverneur et Commandant des Isles Royales 

 Saint Jean et autres. 



Sur Ifs bons témoi.srnages qui nous ont été rendues 

 de la fidélité et attachement aux Français du nommé 

 Jannot Pequidoualouet et de son zèle pour la rtiigion 

 et le service du roi nous l'avons nommé et établi ; et 

 par ses présentes, nommons et établissons chef des 

 sauvages de l'île Royale. 



En foi de quoi nous avons signé ces présentes et y 

 avons fait apposer le cachet de nos armes et contre- 

 signé par l'un de nos Secretaires. 



Fait à Louisbourg le 17 Sbre, 1751. 



(Seal) Le Comte db Raymond, 



Pour Monsieur le Comte, 

 (Signé! PicnoN. 



John Louis Count de Raymond, Chevalier, Lord of 

 Oyé, La Tour and other places. Field Marshal of 

 the King's army. Lieutenant for his Majesty of 

 the towns and castle of Angoulème, Governor and 

 Commander of He Royale, St. John and other 

 islands. 



On account of the many evidences of fidelity and 

 attachment to the French given by Jaunot Peqiii- 

 diiualouet, as well as of his zeal for the religion and 

 service of the king, we have nominated and appointed, 

 and do hereby nominate and appoint him by these 

 presents. Chief of the savages of Isle Royale. 



In proof of which we have signed these Presents, 

 and have appended thereto the seal of our arms, and 

 the countersign of one of our Secretaries. 



Done at Louisbourg, 17th Sept, 1751. 



Countersigned by 



Count db Raymond, 



PicnoN. 



Scatari, Mabou, Discousse, Ingauiche and Escasoni are, doubtless, Micmac names 

 which have come to us through the French vocabulary, more or less changed in form and 

 sound.' Scatarie or rather Scatari, as given in Bellin's and other French maps, is a 



' I have only mentioned in the text those names in the poem which belong to Cape Breton. The other names, 

 I m.iy more appropriately explain here, still cling to the same places in Nova Scotia. ^lusquodoboit is a fine 

 river, flowing southeast into the Atlantic ocean, in the county of Halifax. Its meaning I have not been able to 

 learn. A famous Nova Scotia statesman and poet, Hon. Joseph Howe, spent " two of the happiest years " of his 

 life — to quote his own words — upon the headwaters of this river, where he " learned to plough, to mow, to reap, to 

 cradle," while he rested his brains wearieil with the fierce contests of old times of responsible government. (See 

 Howe's "Speeches and Letters," i. Ô13.) Chegogin is a village on a river of the same name, eight miles from Yar- 

 mouth, and is the corrupted form of the Indian Isegogin or place for weirs. (Campbell,"History of Yarmouth,"p.4.) 

 Cliebuctou, or Chebouctou, is Halifax harbour, and means in Miemac the chief or biggest harbour or bay — che-bookt. 

 Aspotogon is the name of a remarkable mountain on the southern coast of Nova Scotia, in Lunenburg county, fifty 

 miles west from Halifax. I cannot give its meaning. The Sissibou is the old name of an extensive and beautiful 

 river on the western side of St. Mary's Bay, in western Nova Scotia, and signifies " big river (cibou), an appellation 

 which was given to it, on account of its discharging the largsst body of fresh water of any river in that part of the 

 province." (Haliburton ii. 170.) Chicaben appears to have disappeared from Nova Scotia geography, but Mr. Flint, 

 M. P. for Yarmouth, informs me that it is the Indian name for a flower or plant which once flourished at Church 

 Point, Clare township, Co. of Digby. Many years ago it was proposed to revive this old name of Church Point, but 

 the proposition fell through and the Indian word is now almost forgotten. Tusket is the name of a river, a village 

 and a cluster of rocky islets iu southwestern Nova Scotia. Blomidon, which would always be remarkable for its 

 grand beauty if it had not been made famous by the great American poet, is probably a foreign word, some say 

 Portuguese. (See Dr. Patterson, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., viii, sec. 2, pp. 153, 154.) It was called by the French 

 in early times Cape Battiste. (Dr. Patterson, Trans. Roy. Soc- Can., viii, 2 sec, 153, 154.) Pisiquid is an 

 old Indian name which Dr. Rand gives as Pesegitk, meaning " to flow splitwiso as the tide passes up near Windsor 

 and divides off into the St. Croix." Chebogue, called by some Indians (Campbell, " History of Yarmouth," p. 3). 

 Itebogue, or spring water, and by others Tecebogue, or cold water, is a well known village and river near Yarmouth, 

 N.S. 



Sec. II, 1891. 34. 



