Note 15 — VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

Long is here following the authority of Father Hennepin, who gives this origin of the name “Canada” in his New Discovery (London, 1698). The real origin of the word is disputed, some deriving it from an Iroquois term meaning “village;” others from Indian terms signifying “at the mouth of the river;” still others, from a term for “lakes,” i. e., a country full of lakes.—Ed.