118 MICMAC IN 7 DIAN'S OF NOVA SCOTIA 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



(The following is a fairly complete list of works treating of the 

 Micmac tribe. Information on the subject may also be obtained in 

 the Reports of the Indian Commissioner in the earlier volumes of the 

 Journals of the N. S. Assembly, and also in the Reports of the Departr 

 ment of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, since 1867.) 



1598. Cartier (Jacques). Disccurs du Voyage aux Terres neufves de 

 Canada. Paris, 1598. Cartier's first voyage was made in 

 1534, but he makes but a mere mention of our Indians. 



1609. Lescarbot (Marc). Nova Francia. Lond., 1609. Also later 

 editions, and recently republished by the Champlain 

 Society, Toronto, 1907, to be in three volumes. Also in the 

 original French, Paris, 1609. Contains interesting account 

 of the Micmacs of that early period. Lescarbot went to Port 

 Royal (Annapolis) in July, 1606. 



1616. Biard (Pere Pierre). Relation de la Nouvelle France. Lyons, 

 1616. See Thwaite's edition, Jesuit Relations, vols. iii 

 and iv. 



1632. Champlain (Samuel de). Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France 

 occidentale, 1603-1629. Paris, 1632. Also subsequent 

 editions. Gives short account of hunting and burial 

 customs. 



1672. Denys ([Nicholas]). Description geographique et historique des 

 Costes de FAmerique septentrionale. Avec FHistoire 

 naturelle du Pais. 2 vols. Paris, 1672. The second vol. 

 ('Histoire naturelle des peuples/ etc.), chap. 23-24, treats 

 very fully of the Indians (Micmacs). See the very fine 

 annotated translation by Dr. W. F. Ganong, with original 

 text, published by the Champlain Society, Toronto, 1908. 

 This work contains very much that is of the greatest interest 

 to those studying the early customs, etc., of the Micmacs 

 of Nova Scotia. 



1691. Le Clercq (Pere Christien). Novelle Relation de la Gaspesie. 

 Paris, 1691. 572 pp. Contains much concerning the 

 Micmacs of Gaspe Bay, Quebec Province, whom he calls 

 Gaspesiens. Le Clercq invented the hieroglyphs, still in use 

 among the Micmacs, some of whom write and read them, 

 and in which Kauder printed his catechison at Vienna; 

 see 1866. 



