Henry Membertou, a Micmac sagamore and medicine man, born about 1500, died in 1611. He is said to have seen Cartier in his youth; lie received De Monts and his colonists, on their arrival in Acadia in 1604, with a friendship that never changed, and by his influence aided them greatly, being the most powerful chief on the coast. He was tall, strongly built, and bearded like a Frenchman. He at once gathered 400 of his tribe in a palisaded village near the French post, and in 1607 led a large Micmac force against the Armouchiquois Indians, near the Merrimack, whom he defeated. Lescarbot commemorated his victory in a French poem. He was hastily baptized, with his wife and three sons and 16 others, June 24, 1610, and seemed to endeavor to live a Christian life, though his excessive zeal led him to wish to make war on all tribes that refused to embrace Christianity. In the autumn of the following year he was brought in a dying condition to Port Royal, and, though carefully attended by the missionaries, soon expired, at the reputed age of 110.