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etc., and introduces a question, while the evidence is perfectly con- 
clusive that Lescarbot was not in Acadia until two years later. Second, 
Willis interprets a passage, on page 490 of the 1612 edition, in which 
Lescarbot says he gave religious instruction to the people at the request 
of Poutrincourt, as referring to St. Croix Island. But this, as the 
context shows, although coming in a chapter describing events at St. 
Croix Island, occurs in a digression relating to his own student habits, 
and refers to Port Royal, and not to St. Croix Island. 
In this connection we may note an interesting incident which 
may have happened at Isle St. Croix. As Champlain tells us in the 
edition of his works of 1632, the party with de Monts included both 
Protestants and Roman Catholics, and had with it both priests and 
ministers. Now, Sagard, in his Histoire du Canada, of 1636 (page 9), 
speaking of the unfortunate effects of religious disputes upon the men 
when Catholic priests and Protestant ministers were allowed to go 
together upon expeditions to the New World, says:— 
En ces commencemens que les François furent vers l’Acadie; il arriua 
qu’un Prestre & un Ministre moururent presque en mesme temps, les mate- 
lots qui les enterrerent, les mirent tous deux dans une mesme fosse, pour veoir 
si morts ils demeureroient en paix, puisque viuants ils ne s‘estoient pda 
accorder. 
TRANSLATION. 
In the first ventures made by the French in Acadia, it happened that a 
priest and a minister, having died at almost the same time, the sailors who 
buried them, placed them together in a single grave to see whether when 
dead they would remain together in peace, since living they were never able 
to agree. 
It is not, of course, certain that this incident occurred at St. Croix 
Island, but the indications point to the island as its location. 
So much for the history of the island down to the removal of 
the settlement to Port Royal. Only once more does Champlain have 
any connection with it. He visited it along with Poutrincourt on 
September 7, 1606, which visit he describes as follows: — 
CHAPITRE XIII. 
[1131 . . . . Le lendemain fusmes dedans vne chalouppe à l'isle de S. 
Croix, où le sieur de Mons auoit yuerné, voir si nous trouuerions quelques 
espics du bled, & autres graines qu'il y auoit fait semer. Nous trouuasmes 
du bled qui estoit tombé en terre, & estoit venu aussi beau qu’on eut sceu 
desirer, & quantité d'herbes potageres qui estoient venues belles & grandes: 
cela nous resiouit infiniment, pour voir que la terre y estoit bonne & fertile. 
