[Scrsco] LESCARBOT’S BARON DE LERY 251 
might have financed a fishing voyage without leaving a trace of it on 
the records of his day. He might even have financed an exploration 
like that of Verrazano without lasting record of the fact. It is unlikely, 
however, that a colonizing venture, accompanied necessarily by royal 
grant of privilege, should run its course and leave no clearer trace than 
the chance remark penned by a Paris writer eighty years afterward. 
