RE LA TION
OF WHAT OCCURRED
IN THE MISSION OF THE FATHERS
of the Society of JESUS,

IN THE COUNTRY OF

NEW FRANCE, From the Summer of the Year 1652

to the Summer of the Year 1653. Sent to the Reverend Father Provincial

of the Province of France. By the Superior of the Missions of the same

Society.

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ELATION de ce qui s'est passé en la Mission

des Peres de la Compagnie de IESVS,

Pays de la Nouuelle France depuis l'Eté de

l'année 1652. iusques à l'année 1653. page CH. I. D’un vaisseau pris par les Anglois, & des

memoires dont il est parlé en la lettre precedente.
. II. De ce qui s'est passé à Montreal.
III. De ce qui s'est passé aux Trois Riuieres.
IV. De la prise & de la deliurance du Pere Ioseph

Poncet.
V. De la Paix faite auec les Iroquois.
VI. De la Paix faite auec vne Nation qui habite

du cofté du Sud à l'égard de Quebec.
VII. La Pauureté & les Richeses du Pays.
VIII. La porte fermée à l'Euangile, semble

s'ouurir plus grande que iamais. CHAP. DERN. Recueil tiré de diuerses Lettres ap

portées de la Nouuelle France.

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page CHAP. I. Of a vessel taken by the English, and of

the memoirs referred to in the preceding letter. 5 II. Of what occurred at Montreal. III. Of what occurred at Three Rivers. IV. Of the capture and deliverance of Father Joseph Poncet.

46 V. Of the Peace made with the Iroquois.

88 VI. Of the Peace made with a Nation dwelling in a Southerly direction from Quebec.

129 VII. The Poverty and the Riches of the Country. 146 VIII. The door closed to the Gospel seems to open wider than ever.

153 CHAP. THE LAST. Extracts from various Letters

brought from New France.

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