[&aaxonc] DOCHET (ST. CROIX) ISLAND 195 
TRANSLATION. 
we passed on to the Island of Ste. Croix, where Platrier gave us two barrels 
of peas or beans; they both proved a very great boon to us. 
(Relations, III., 224, 225.) 
That Captain Platrier really spent the winter of 1611-1612 on 
St. Croix Island is attested by a statement in a letter of Father Biard 
(Relations, II. 26, 27). Whether he or anyone else wintered there 
in 1612-1613 we do not know, but in the next year, 1613, occurred 
the final event in the history of the buildings on St. Croix Island. 
In the summer of that year, Captain Argal was sent by the English 
of Virginia to drive the French from the Bay of Fundy. He cap- 
tured Father Biard at Mount Desert, and what followed, we will allow 
the good Father himself to tell in his letters to his Superior in France. 
Hic quoque iterum nobis periculum. Volebant ire Angli, ut ante dictum 
est, ad habitationem Sanctae Crucis, etsi in ea nulli tunc habitatores essent. 
Sed erat sal ibi relictum. Nemo praeter me viam sciebat; atque ibi me ali- 
quando fuisse Argli norant. Rogant igitur ut eos deducam. Ego qua possum 
tergiversari et evadere ; sed nihil proficio. Vident aperte me nolle. Hic nimi- 
rium incenditur capitaneus, et eram jam periculo propior; cum subito sine 
me ipsi locum reperiunt diripiunt et.incendunt. 
TRANSLATION. 
Here a new peril arose. The English, as I have previously stated, wished 
to go to the settlement of Sainte Croix, although it had at this time no inhabi- 
tants. Some salt, however, had been left there. No one except myself knew 
the way; and the English knew that I had been there formerly. They accord- 
ingly demand that I lead them. I do all I can ‘to evade and refuse this pro- 
posal; but it avails me nothing. They perceive clearly that I am unwill- 
ing to obey. At this the captain grows very angry, and my peril becomes 
imminent; when suddenly they find the place, without my help, and plunder 
and burn it. 
(Relations, III., 10, 11.), 
In another place, his Relation of 1616, Father Biard gives another 
account of this event. 
De sainct Sauueur ils addresserent à S. Croix, ancienne habitation du 
sieur de Monts, & parce qu’ils auoyent sceu, que le P. Biard y auoit esté, 
Argal vouloit qu’il les y conduisit, mais ledit Pere ne le voulut point, ce qui 
le mit entierement en la disgrace dudit Argal, & en grand danger de sa vie. 
Ce neantmoins Argal roda tant en haut qu’en bas, & rechercha tant tous leurs 
endroits, les confrontans auec les cartes, qu'il nous auoit prinses qu'en fin il 
la trouua de soy-mesme ; il en enleua vn bon monceau de sel, qu’il y trouua, 
brusla l'habitation & destruisit toutes les marques du nom & droict de France, 
ainsi qu’il auoit en commandement. 
TRANSLATION. 
From saint Sauveur they sailed for Ste. Croix, Sieur de Monts’s old settle- 
ment ; and, as they knew that Father Biard had been there, Argal wished 
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