150 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
English by Dr. C. P. Otis, annotated by Rev E. F. Slafter, and pub- 
lished at Boston in 1878-1882 by the Prince Society, an extremely good 
work with photographie reproductions of the illustrations; this trans- 
lation I have used as a basis for that in the following pages, not 
hesitating, however, to alter it whenever, which was rarely, I thought 
it could be improved. 
There is, however, an earlier account of the voyage and settlement 
of 1604 which, as Parkman has said, may have been written by Cham- 
plain himself,— namely, that in Le Mercvre Francois, a contemporary 
French journal for 1608, published in 1611, and this is reproduced 
later in this paper, together with a translation based upon that given 
in the Magazine of American History, Vol. If., 49. Second in impor- 
tance to Chamrylain’s works comes the “Histoire de la Nouvelle 
France,” published in 1609 by Mare Lescarbot, a lawyer of Paris, who 
spent the years of 1606-1608 in Acadia, and visited the island in 1607. 
He obtained his facts, of course, from Champlain, with whom he 
passed a winter at Port Royal, and upon some matters he gives more 
information than does Champlain himself. New editions of his 
“ Histoire” were published in 1611, 1612 and 1618, and that of 1612, 
which is followed in the text later in this paper, has been reprinted, 
not in fac-similc, but somewhat modernized, by Tross at Paris in 1866. 
The different editions not only differ from one another in the amount 
of material included, but they also vary considerably in the details 
of the text,’ although, so far as the parts relating to St. Croix Island 
are concerned, the differences appear to be merely in diction and not 
to involve any change of meaning or additional matter? The parts 
of Lescarbot’s work relating to de Monts’ voyage and settlement were 
translated into English by a clergyman named Pierre Erondelle, and 
published at London in 1609 under the title “ Nova Francia; or the 
Description of that part of New France which is one continent with 
Virginia ” IT have used this quaint and interesting trans- 
lation, which I was tempted to reproduce here exactly, in making the 
translation given later in this paper. This translation of Erondelle’s 
is given, abbreviated, in Purchas’ “ Pilgrims,” Vol. IV., and in full 
in Churchill’s Collections of Voyages, Vol. VIII. The only other 
printed original documents relating to the earlier periods of the 

* On the different editions, consult Biggar, ‘“ The French Hakluyt, Marc 
Lescarbot of Vervins,” in American Historical Review, VI., 671-692. 
Full bibliographical details of the works of Champlain and Lescarbot are 
given by Winsor in Chapters III. and IV. of Vol. IV. of his “America.” 
* As shown by a comparison of the three editions made for me by my 
friend, Mr. Victor H. Paltsits, of the Lenox Library. 
