Editorial note — ERNEST MYRAND (continued 2)
Reading edition
Note 74: La plus précieuse chose qu'ils (les sauvages) ont au monde est esurgny--Relation du Second Voyage de Jacques Cartier, page 44, édition 1843.
Les grains de porcelaine leur servaient (aux sauvages) de monnaie, de parures et de gages dans les traités de paix. Ces grains étaient faits de la nacre de certains coquillages marins. Cartier appelle ces coquillages esurgny, les sauvages de la Nouvelle Angleterre les nommaient wampum. Ferland Histoire du Canada; Tome Ier, page 30.
Note 75: On the last of September (1670) the priests made an altar, supported by the paddles of the canoes laid on forked sticks. Dollier said mass; La Salle and his followers received the sacrament, as did also those of his late colleagues; and thus they parted, the Sulpicians and their party descending the Grand River towards Lake Érié, etc. Parkman: La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West. Chapitre II, page 18.