CONTENTS OF VOL. XLIII XCV. Journal des PP. Jésuites. Jean de Quen la Novvelle France, és années mil fix cens cinquante fix & mil fix cens cinquante fept. [Chaps. i.-xvi. — first installment of the document.] 79 319 I. Photographic facsimile of handwriting of Claude Pijart: being an entry, dated June 29, 1655, in the first register of the Parish of Nôtre Dame, Montreal (1642-68). Facing 62 II. Photographic facsimile of title-page, Rela PREFACE TO VOL. XLIII Following is a summary of the documents contained in the present volume: XCIV. Le Jeune writes (March, 1657) a short business letter to the hospital superior at Quebec. He refers to certain accounts and bills, some of which he has settled; and states that he has received certain alms for the Quebec convent. He also announces that more nuns are going thither from the Dieppe house. XCV. The Journal des Jésuites for 1657 is written by Jean de Quen; it is much more full than in the years immediately preceding, especially in recording church ceremonies. In January, De Charny, the acting governor, despatches two Frenchmen to Onondaga; but they cannot go beyond Montreal, as they have no guide and the roads are bad. Services in the large church are begun March 31. The superior receives (April 3) the abjuration of a young man, presumably a Huguenot. A week later, he signs a petition, made by the carpenters of the town, for the establishment of the brotherhood of Ste. Anne. As soon as warm weather approaches, Onondaga Indians commit various hostile acts, notwithstanding the ostensible peace with that tribe. Jean Bourdon sets out, May 2, for his journey to find the North Sea. On the sixth, several Onondaga bands are prowling about Quebec; councils are held between these and the French with their allies. All the speeches of the Onondagas " amounted to nothing,mera ambages, mera tenebræ." During the negotiations, an Onondaga is accidentally wounded by a Frenchman. Complaint of this is made; and Father le Moyne "applies to the wounded man a plaster, in the shape of a porcelain collar." The Onondagas return to their own country on the 15th, with three Huron ambassadors; on the way, the Hurons are prevented by the Mohawks from completing their journey. The first French vessel comes, this year, on May 27. The next day, a Mohawk band come to Quebec, to carry away the Hurons to their country,— for which purpose more councils are held. The French learn that the Mohawks have intrigued between the Hurons and Onondagas, to induce the former to go to the Mohawk country instead of Onondaga. The French try to persuade the Mohawks to delay this project until the arrival of the new governor, D'Argenson. On the first day of June, Le Mercier arrives from Onondaga; he brings good news from its mission there. The next day, the Mohawks carry away a number of Huron women and children. On the thirteenth, the chapel and all the other buildings at Sillery are destroyed by fire. Three days later, one of the Huron tribes is embarked on the French shallops, to go to live at Onondaga; and, later, Le Mercier again goes thither. A party of French and Algonkins, who had gone in April to trade with the Poissons-blancs, or Attikamègues, return to Quebec, July 15, laden with peltries. On the twenty-ninth occurs a notable arrival that of the Abbé de Queylus and three Sulpi |