Monts succumbed, and the news which Poutrincourt received
when the first ship came in 1607 was that the colony must be abandoned.
As the company itself was about to be dissolved, this consequence {57}
was inevitable. Champlain in his matter-of-fact way states that De
Monts sent letters to Poutrincourt, 'by which he directed him to bring
back his company to France.' Lescarbot is much more outspoken.
Referring to the merits and struggles of De Monts, he exclaims:

Yet I fear that in the end he may be forced to give it all up, to the
great scandal and reproach of the French name, which by such conduct is
made a laughing-stock and a byword among the nations. For as though
their wish was to oppose the conversion of these poor Western peoples,
and the glory of God and of the King, we find a set of men full of
avarice and envy, who would not draw a sword in the service of the
King, nor suffer the slightest ill in the world for the honour of God,
but who yet put obstacles in the way of our drawing any profit from the
province, even in order to furnish what is indispensable to the
foundation of such an enterprise; men who prefer to see the English and
Dutch win possession of it rather than the French, and would fain have
the name of God remain unknown in those quarters. And it is such
godless people who are listened to, who are believed, and who win their
suits. _O tempora, O mores_!

On August 11, 1607, Port Royal was abandoned for the second time, and
its people, sailing by Cape Breton, reached Roscou in Brittany at the
end of September. The {58} subsequent attempt of Poutrincourt and his
family to re-establish the colony at Port Royal belongs to the history
of Acadia rather than to the story of Champlain. But remembering the
spirit in which he and De Monts strove, one feels glad that Lescarbot
spoke his mind regarding the opponents who baffled their sincere and
persistent efforts.

[1] This word has sometimes been traced to the Micmac _akade_, which,
appended to place-names, signifies an abundance of something. More
probably, however, it is a corruption of Arcadia. The Acadia of De
Monts' grant in 1604 extended from the parallel of 40 deg. to that of 46 deg.
north latitude, but in the light of actual occupation the term can
hardly be made to embrace more than the coast from Cape Breton to
Penobscot Bay.

[2] There appears in Verrazano's map of 1529 the word Aranbega, as
attached to a small district on the