Later on the Intendant's Palace,
in magnificence rivalled the Chateau St. Louis.
[306] Kahir-Koubat "a meandering stream" Ahatsistari's house (formerly
"Poplar Grove," the homestead of L. T. McPherson, Esq.), on the north bank
of the St. Charles, was called Kahir-Koubat by N. Monpetit. Here
formerly dwelt, we are told, Col. De Salaberry, the hero of Chateauguay,
until 1814.
[307] Beyond the unmistakable vestiges of its having been of early French
construction, there is nothing known of the origin under French rule, of
Bigot's little Chateau. History is replete with details about his
peculations and final punishment in the Bastile of France; possibly the
legends in prose and in verse, which mantle round the time-worn rein, have
no other foundation than the fictions of the poet and the novelist. Thanks
to Amedee Papineau, W. Kirby, Jos. Mannette, Beaumanoir, Bigot's Chateau,
is now immortalized in song.
[308] Ahatsistari, such the name of the former great Huron warrior, which
Mr. Montpetit was allowed to assume when recently elected Honorary Chief
of the Council of Sachems, possibly for the service rendered to the tribe
as their historiographer.
[309] The French named the Wyandats, Hurons, from their style of wearing
their hair - erect and thrown back, giving their head, says the Historian
Ferland, the appearance of a boar's head, "une hure de sanglier."
[310] The Dutch called them Maquas; the English, Mohawks, probably from
the name of the river Mohawk which flows into the Hudson.
