There He Is In France; He Is Paid With Fair Words And With
Promise To Make Him Goe Back From Whence He Came; But He Feeing No
Assurance Of It, Did Engage Himselfe With A Merchant Of Rochell, Who Was To
Send Him A Ship The Next Spring.
In that hope he comes away in a fisher
boat to the pierced Island, some 20 leagues off from the Isle d'eluticosty,
[Footnote:
Eluticosty, Anticosti, an island at the mouth of the river St.
Lawrence.] the place where the ship was to come; that was to come whilst he
was going in a shallop to Quebucq, where I was to goe away with him to the
rendezvous, being he could not do anything without me; but with a great
deel of difficulty it proved, so that I thought it possible to goe tast of
the pleasures of France, and by a small vessell that I might not be idle
during his absence. He presently told me what he had done, and what wee
should doe. Wee embarked, being nine of us. In a few dayes wee came to the
pierced Island, where wee found severall shipps newly arrived; & in one of
them wee found a father Jesuit that told us that wee should not find what
wee thought to find, and that he had put a good order, and that it was not
well done to distroy in that manner a Country, and to wrong so many
Inhabitants. He advised me to leave my Brother, telling me that his designs
were pernicious.
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