Armouchiquois
Biard's name for the peoples of the coast farther south, in what is now southern Maine and beyond, who, he heard, kept their numbers while the northern peoples died.
The Mi'kmaq and the French, and the Sickness among Them
Pierre Biard, Relation de la Nouvelle France (Lyon, 1616), chapter 6, on why the Mi'kmaq were so few · printed 1616 (on what Biard saw and heard in Acadia, 1611–1613)
Ils s'estonnent & se plaignent souuẽt de ce que dés que les Frãçois hantent & ont commerce auec eux, ils se meurent fort, & se depeuplent. Car ils asseurent qu'auant ceste hantise, & frequentation, toutes leurs terres estoyent fort populeuses, & historient par ordre coste par coste, qu'à mesure qu'ils ont plus cõmencé à traffiquer auecques nous, ils ont plus esté rauagez de maladies: adjoustans, que la cause pourquoy les Armouchiquoys se maintiennent en leur nombrosité, c'est à leur aduis, parce qu'ils ne sont point nonchalants.
They are astonished, and they often complain, that ever since the French have come among them and traded with them, they have been dying in great numbers and their land is emptying of people. They insist that before this contact, all their lands were thickly peopled. They tell the history in order, coast by coast: the more they began to trade with us, the more they were ravaged by sickness. They add that, in their opinion, the Armouchiquois keep up their numbers because they are not idle.