Note 988 — Chapter VII · (continued 2)

These are set forth in Hannay’s Acadia, ch. xx.; Doc. Col. Hist. N. Y., x. p. 11, etc.; Parkman’s Montcalm and Wolfe, i. 114, 266, etc.; Akins’s Selections from the Pub. Docs. of Nova Scotia (with authorities there cited); Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760 (Quebec, 1838). Le Loutre was a creature of whom it is difficult to say how much of his conduct was due to fanaticism, and how much to a heartless villainy. The French were quite as much inclined as any one to consider him a villain. The Acadians themselves had often found that he could use his Micmacs against them like bloodhounds.