r of the Iroquois, befits but indifferently the
monastic sobrieties of the fort of Quebec, and his sombre environment
of priests. Yet Champlain was no formalist, nor was his an empty zeal.
A soldier from his youth, in an age of unbridled license, his life had
answered to his maxims; and when a generation had passed after his visit
to the Hurons, their elders remembered with astonishment the continence
of the great French war-chief.

His books mark the man,--all for his theme and his purpose, nothing for
himself. Crude in style, full of the superficial errors of carelessness
and haste, rarely diffuse, often brief to a fault, they bear on every
page the palpable impress of truth.

With the life of the faithful soldier closes the opening period of New
France. Heroes of another stamp succeed; and it remains to tell the
story of their devoted lives, their faults, follies, and virtues.

END NOTES:

[Footnote 1: Herrera, Hist. General, Dec. I. Lib. LX. c. 11; De Laet,
Novus Orbis, Lib. I. C. 16 Garcilaso, Just. de la Florida, Part I. Lib.
I. C. 3; Gomara, Ilist. Gin. des Indes Occidentales, Lib. II. c. 10.
Compare Peter Martyr, De Rebus Oceanicis, Dec. VII. c. 7, who says that
the fountain was in Florida.

The story has an explanation sufficiently characteristic, having been
suggested, it is said, by the beauty of the native women, which none
could resist, and which kindled the fires of youth in the veins of age.

The terms of Ponce de Leon's bargain with the King are set forth in the
MS. Gapitnincion con Juan Ponce sobre Biminy. He was to have exclusive
right to the island, settle it at his own cost, and be called Adelantado
of Bimini; but the King was to build and hold forts there, send agents
to divide the Indians among the settlers, and receive first a tenth,
afterwards a fifth, of the gold.]

[Footnote 2: Fontanedo in Ternaux-Compans, Recueil sur la Floride, 18,
19, 42. Compare Herrera, Dec. I. Lib. IX. c. 12. In allusion to this
belief, the name Jordan was given eight years afterwards by Ayllon to a
river of South Carolina.]

[Footnote 3: Hakinyt, Voyaqes, V. 838; Barcia, Ensayo Cronologico, 5.]

[Footnote 4: Peter Martyr in Hakinyt. V. 333; De Laet, Lib. IV. c. 2.]

[Footnote 5: Their own exaggerated reckoning. The journey was prohably
from Tampa Bay to the Appalachicola, by a circuitous route.]

[Footnote 6: Narrative of Alvar Nunez Caheca de Vaca, second in command
to Narvaez, translated by B