[aaxonc] DOCHET (ST. CROIX) ISLAND 193 
TRANSLATION. 
iy CHAPTER XVIII. 
State of St. Croix Island. 
. . . . Having arrived at the said St. Croix Island, we found there the build- 
ings which had been left all entire, except the magazine which was uncovered 
on one side. We found there also in the bottom of a pipe Spanish wine of which 
we drank and it was of good flaver. As to the gardens, we found there also 
cabbages, sorel and lettuce, which we cooked. We made there aiso good 
pies from the pigeons which are frequent there in the woods. But the grass 
there is so high that one cannot find them when they are killed and fall to 
the ground. The courtyard there was full of whole barrels, which our badly 
disciplined sailors? burned for pleasure, which horrified me when I saw it and 
I saw better than before that the Indians were (at least in manners) more 
humanized and better people than many of those who bear the name of 
Christians, having for three years spared this place from which they had not 
taken a single morsel of wood, nor of salt which was there in a great quantity 
as hard) AS TOC 
We have now to trace the history of the island for the remainder 
of the period, and brief enough it is. The records are to be found 
chiefly in the Relations of the Jesuit Missionaries, from which the 
following quotations are taken. 
After 1607, no mention of the island occurs until 1610, in which 
year, as related by Lescarbot, Sieur de Poutrincourt in a voyage, 
vindrent à Sainte Croix premiere habitation de noz Francois en cette côte, 
là où ledit Sieur fit faire des prieres pour les trespassez qui y estoient enterrez 
dés le premier voyage du sieur de Monts en l’an 1603. 
TRANSLATION. 
came to Saint Croix, the first settlement of our French upon this coast, where 
the Sieur had prayers offered for the dead who had been buried there since 
the first voyage made by Sieur de Monts, in the year 1603 [1604]. 
(Relations II., 132-133.) 
Thus, touchingly and appropriately, with prayers for the repose 
of those who died in that first sorrowful winter, ends the connection 
of Poutrincourt, last of the comrades of de Monts in Acadia, with 
St. Croix Island. 

? Human nature changes little with the progress of the Ages! Lescarbot 
is not the only hunter who has explained his return without game as due to 
his inability to recover that which he has killed ! 
? This confirms the supposition as to the bad state of discipline among the 
French sailors of the time, which must have made their management under 
such circumstances as prevailed at St. Croix Island in the winter of 1604-1605 
very difficult. 
