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Jllarc Lescarbof 685 well, for in his history he cites it at very frequent intervals. ' He brings this portion of his history to a dose with an account of the arrival of Chevalier, of the preparations for departure and of the return voyage from Canso to St. Malo. " After a visit to Mont St. Michel which he calls the "eighth wonder of the world," he and de Poutrincourt embarked again at St. Malo in a small vessel for Honfleur whence they made their way to Paris. ' Of what took place in the Bay of Fundy in the summer of 1608, the year after his return, he was able to obtain informa- tion from Champdore and others,^ but since Champlain had remained during the winter of 1608 and 1609 at Quebec, Lescar- bot was unable to give an account of events in the St. Lawrence.' His account of Champdore's return to Acadia is however a very summary one. Book HI. is given up entirely to a description of the manners and customs of the Savages of the New World." Since he had not thought of publishing a work when he was in the country, he had to rely for his information on what he could recall from memory, on his journal (if he really had one), and on what he found in other writers. In the course of his remarks on the births, marriages, deaths, wars, funerals, virtues and vices of the Indians he cites again Laudonniere,^ de Lery,^ Cartier,'" and Champlain " and also makes ^IbiJ., pp. 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 49, 19S-199, 484, 519, 523, 537, 555, etc. ^ Ibid., pp. 629-650. ^ Ibid., p. 650. " Ayans demeure trois au quatre jours a Sainct Malo, nous allaraes . . . au Mont Sainct Michel . . . Quant au batiment il merite d'estre appelle la huitieme merveille du monde," etc. ^ Ibid., p. 652. " Lesdits navires estans de retour, nous avons eu rapport par le sieurde Champdore et autresde I'etat du pais que nous avons laisse," etc. ^ Ibid., p. 654. " Le sieur Charaplein est . . . en la grande riviere de Canada ... oil il s'est fortifie, ayant mene des menages avec du bestial, et diverses sortes d'arbres fruitiers .... II n'est pas homme pour demeurer en repos, et attendons bientot nouvelles de I'entiere decouverte de cette grande et nompareille riviere et des pais qu'elle arrouse par la diligence dudit Champlein." ^ Ibid., p. 661. " II m'a semble necessaire de m'exercer en ce troisieme livre sur ce sujet (la manierede vivre) pour ce qui regarde les nations desquelles nous avons parle," '/(^/(/., p. 663. " Lors que i'estois pardela ne pensant rien nioins qu'a cette his- toire ie n'ay pas pris garde a beaucoup de choses que i'auroy peu observer." ^ Histoirc, etc., p. 683. " Le Capitaine Laudonniere en son histoire de la Floride dit," etc. Cf. also pp. 688, 724, 747, 757, 786, 796. ^ Ibid., p. 665. "Les Bresiliens ice que dit Jean de Leri, lequel i'ayrae mieux suivre en ce qu'il a veu qu'un Hespagnol," etc. Cf. also pp. 684, 685, 693, 747- ^^ Ibid., y^. 6"]^ et seqq. " Jacques Quartier en sa deuxieme Relation rapporte ce qui i'ay n'agueres dit en ces mots, qui ne sont pas couchez ci dessus au livre second," etc. Cf. also pp. 744, 853. "Ibid., 11. 674. " Le sieur Champlein . . . fait rapport," etc. Cf. also pp. 725, 853-