FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Landfall of Leif, The Problem of the Northmen, The Defences of Norumbega, The Discovery of the Ancient City, Leif’s House in Vinland, etc.
[2] W. H. Babcock, Early Norse Visits to America. Smithsonian Misc. Colls., Vol. 59, No. 19.
[3] Babcock, p. 139.
[4] Astronomical calculations demonstrate that the sun rose and set at the time mentioned, October 17, in Latitude 41°, 24′, 10″, almost exactly that of Narragansett Bay.
[5] In Old Norse the term “Hop” was applied to any inlet, fiord or harbor with a narrow entrance, widening inside not far from the entrance to a larger lake or lagoon into which a river flowed.
[6] The commander of the Prince Charles of Lorraine, of whom we shall write later.
[7] The words used by Father Fauque are “corsaire anglois.”—Trans.
[8] Les corsaires.
[9] Suspecting that Rodelan and Rhode Island were similar enough in sound to mislead Father Fauque, we examined the list of governors of Rhode Island, and found that William Greene was governor in 1744-5. This, therefore, was a Rhode Island privateer.[10] Father Fauque says Captain Potter was “Creole de la Nouvelle Angleterre.” He, of course, means he was a native of New England, and we have thus translated it.—Trans.
[11] Very true.—Ed.
[12] Some of these are still preserved in Bristol.—Ed.
[14] A series of devotions extending through nine days.—Trans.
[15] From 1715 to 1786 Rhode Island suffered from the issue of Bills of Credit, or paper money.—Ed.
[16] Nota bene.—Ed.
[17] Either Captain Potter or Father Fauque, in this statement, makes a mistake. On November 5th, in England, they celebrate their escape from the “Gunpowder Plot.” There is in the Prayer-book “A Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving,” which is to be used on that day “for the happy deliverance of King James I. and the Three Estates of England from the most traitorous and blood-intended massacre by Gunpowder; and also for the happy arrival of His Majesty King William on this day, for the deliverance of our church and nation.” The common people call it “Guy Fawkes’ Day.”[18]—Trans.
[18] Guy Fawkes’ Day was observed with great fidelity, as far as noise was concerned, by Bristol boys of the last generation.—Ed.
[19] Captain Potter was a member of St. Michael’s Church, Bristol, and as a good Church of England man was reading his Book of Common Prayer.—Ed.
[20] Potter was not a Huguenot. If Father Fauque had known of the heresies abounding in “Rodelan” his astonishment would have been equalled by his horror.—Ed.
[21] A toise is two yards.—Trans.
[22] “Narragansett Pacers” were greatly in demand in the West Indies, and on the “Spanish Main.”—Ed.