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22nd of July. he says: “I embarked aboard the ‘ Envieux? to return 
to France.” On her homeward journey the “ Hnvieuwx” touched at 
Placentia on August 12th, and remained till the end of September 
to convoy home the fishing vessels. In 1695 (December) I find the 
“ Envieux ” again in charge of De Bonaventure. From this it will 
be seen that there is lacuna in the history of the movements of the 
“ Envieux.” But there is time for a short period of captainship by 
poor Suigaraichipi before his death in 1694. My reading of the 
inscription then is this: — “ Here lies, etc., Captain of the frigate of 
the King, L’Envieux: For the honour of, etc., I went to attack, etc.” 
The next words that cause some trouble are: “Mon......... 
Prince,’ The letters Mon are quite clear, and I at first read it “ My 
Prince,’ meaning, as I thought, “My King.” But I then noticed 
portions of some letters, almost illegible, at the beginning of the third 
line, before the word “ Prince.” I also noticed that the stone was 
frayed away somewhat after the word or letters Mon, at the end of 
the second line, and that there had been room for a letter or two 
there. Also that immediately before the word “Prince” is to be 
distinctly observed the little diamond stop which is used to separate 
one word from another, and which is rarely placed at the beginning 
of a line. My interpretation of this part of the inscription then, 
is this: — 
This would apply to Philip, Duke of Chartres and Orleans, brother 
of the King (Louis XIV.), whom he had appointed Commander-in- 
Chief of the Army and Navy, and whose official title was Monsieur 
Le Prince. Here there is a transition of the grammatical construc- 
tion of the epitaph from the third to the first person, and the subject 
of the inscription (Suigarai) is represented as speaking himself: 
“ Jallois,’ I went, etc. The next word, last of the third line, has 
puzzled me. The word is clearly NE; but as such it makes no 
sense. I have come to the conclusion that it is a mistake for EN, 
which, with the participle Suivant, makes good French (in following). 
Here again the construction changes back to the third person. “Sa 
Carriere,” unless the pronoun Sa be referred to Monsieur le Prince, 
but that would be a strained interpretation. “His Career,” or the 
career appointed for me by him. From this down the stone is very 
much broken up, and the last part is entirely missing. It reads as 
follows: —“J’allois en suivant sa carriere, attaquer les enemies en leur 
mesme . . . . . “I went, in following out his (qu My?) career 
to attack the enemy even in their own.” . . . . The final word 
