History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634

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Tirocinium is the first campaign of the young soldier; and so, generally, the first period of trial in any life of danger and hardship. —Translator.

135

It may be interesting to the reader to know how pistols are described in the author's Latin: "Sclopos minores, exiis qui tactâ vel leviter rotulâ exploduntier." —Translator.

136

"Boreâ flaute pertinaciùs, fœdamque tempestatem, quam excicre gam ceperat, glomerante." Literally, perhaps, "the north wind blowing more persistently, and gathering into a mass the dark storm which it had already begun to collect." —Translator.

137

The word "littus" here is properly used, not of the dry land, but of the sloping land under the water, near the edge of the river. —Translator.

138

The figure 8 which occurs in this word in the Relation of 1636, is supposed to be equivalent, in English, to "w," "we," or "oo."