The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 ; the Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts, with English Translations and Notes, Volumen43

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Burrows Bros. Company, 1899
Establishment of Jesuit missions: Abenaki ; Quebec ; Montreal ; Huron ; Iroquois ; Ottawa ; and Lousiana.

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Página 271 - No hospitals are needed among them, because there are neither mendicants nor paupers as long as there are any rich people among them. Their kindness, humanity and courtesy not only make them liberal with what they have, but cause them to possess hardly anything except in common. A whole village must be without corn before any individual can be obliged to endure privation.
Página 259 - ... heal in a short time wounds of all kinds; these leaves which are as broad as one's hand, have the shape of a lily as depicted in heraldry; and its roots have the smell of the laurel. The most vivid scarlet, the brightest green, the most natural yellow and orange of Europe pale before the various colors that our savages procure from its roots.
Página 261 - Eries], one finds heavy and thick water, which ignites like brandy, and boils up in bubbles of flame when fire is applied to it. It is moreover so oily that all our savages use it to anoint and grease their heads and their bodies.
Página 271 - Quaker, on a consequence that stood out dramatically as they compared this "savage" maturation with "civilized." "There is nothing," wrote the Jesuit chronicler of the Iroquois mission in 1657, "for which these peoples have a greater horror than restraint. The very children cannot endure it, and live as they please in the houses of their parents, without fear of reprimand or chastisement.
Página 261 - The rocks about that spring are covered with a foam as thick as cream. The spring in the direction of Sonnontouan is no less wonderful for its water- being of the same nature as the surrounding soil, which has only to be washed in order to obtain perfectly pure sulphur — it ignites when it is shaken violently, and yields sulphur when boiled.
Página 95 - La gloire de sa mort a couronné l'innocence de sa vie. (Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la Mission des Pères de la Compagnie de Jésus...
Página 265 - Nevertheless, these victories cause almost as much loss to them as to their enemies, and they have depopulated their own Villages to such an extent, that they now contain more Foreigners than natives of the country. Onnontaghe counts seven different nations, who have come to settle in it; and there are as many as eleven in Sonnontouan.
Página 263 - The chief virtue of these poor Pagans being cruelty, just as mildness is that of Christians, they teach it to their children from their very cradles, and accustom them to the most atrocious carnage and the most barbarous spectacles.
Página 267 - He dies," the people would say, "because his soul wished to eat the flesh of a dog, or of a man; because a certain hatchet that he wished for could not be procured; or because a fine pair of leggings that had been taken from him could not be found." If he survived, the gift of the last thing that he wished for during his illness was cherished for the rest of his life. Looking over the material on Iroquois dreams, it is apparent that there were two major types of dreams or visions recognized by the...

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