These Unions Were Not Uncommon.

We find the Baron de St. Castin marrying Matilda, the daughter of Madocawando - an Indian beauty; he became a famous Indian Chief, helping D'Iberville, in Acadia, and left a numerous progeny of olive colored princesses with eyes like a gazelle's.

[327] Melospiza melodia.

[328] Zonotrichia leuchophry.

[329] The Hon. Mr. Dunn, Administrator of the Province in 1807, was the senior baron; Hons. Matthew Bell, John Stewart, Messrs. Muir, Irvine, Lester, McNaught, Grey Stewart, Munro, Finlay, Lymburner, Paynter; these names were doubtless also to be found amongst the Canadian barons; the Hon. Chas. de Lanaudiere, once a general in the Hungarian service, was the only French Canadian member.

[330] Book of Carthon.

[331] From Travellers' Guide Book, 1829.

APPENDIX

[332] See Quebec Past and Present, page 34.

[333] Relation de 1665, p. 25, Journal des Jesuites, 10 juillet 1665.

[334] Lettres de Marie de l'Incarnation, lettre 76e, p. 621.

[335] Archives de la Marine, vol. Canada, T. II, de 1670 a 1676, 20 aout 1670.

[336] Ibid., lettres de Colbert a M. Talon, 11 fevrier 1671.

[337] Relation de 1668, p. 3.

[338] Relation de 1667, p. 3.

[339] Archives de la Marine. Registre des depeches de Colbert pour les Indes, 1671, fol. 18.

[340] Relation de 1672, p. 2.

[341] Archives de la Marine. Registre des depeches, ann. 1674 et 1675. Lettre du 16 mai 1674 a M. de Frontenac.

[342] Memoire pour servir d'Intruction a Monsieur le Comte de Frontenac sur l'Entreprise de la Nouvelle-York, 7 juin 1689.

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