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, Volumen37

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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 131 - RELATION de ce qui s'est passe en la Mission des Peres de la Compagnie de Jesus aux Hurons, pays de la Nouvelle France, es annees 1648 et 1649.
Página 77 - Relation " of 1650-1651 we have a letter of Noel to Father Le Jeune, who was then in France. The old Indian, very much impressed with his own importance, says: " I would like to go to France to see you, but I am prevented from doing so. I was sent to the countries of the Abnakis and of the English, who are their neighbors, to ask them for assistance against the Iroquois. I obeyed those who sent me, but my journey was in vain. The Englishman replied not; he has no good thoughts for us. This grieves...
Página 21 - Id., vol. xxxvii., pp. 19-37. I would not have been able to save myself from destruction, owing to the rapidity of the current that flowed beneath me. The first day's journey was amid continual rapid torrents and cataracts falling over precipices, — causing a great deal of thin ice which was very dangerous and very troublesome, because we were compelled to walk with our feet and snowshoes in the water, making the latter very slippery when we had to climb up ice-cliffs near falls or precipices....
Página 93 - On the second day of March, 12 Hurons, six Algonquins and ten Algonquin women, having left Three Rivers for Montreal, were attacked on the way by the Iroquois. Desiderati sunt decem Hurones, — Torotati, burned; Athohonchiwanne, killed ; Ora'kwi, Otarawia, burned. On the 4th of April, Father Buteux left Three Rivers for his Mission to the Atikamegues, with Tsondoutannen, a Huron, and f ontarabie.
Página 113 - On the 1 8th, 4 frenchmen were attacked by 8 Iroquois canoes, between 3 Rivers and the Cape; Maturin Guillet and La Boujonnier were killed on the spot. Plassez, a surgeon, and Rochereau, were taken away as captives. 1 9th. 2 french shallops having been in search of the cattle of 3 Rivers, — killed or scattered by the Iroquois, above 3 Rivers, along the lake, — the following persons were killed or carried away captive: Monsieur Du Plessis, the Governor. Monsieur Grandmesnil. Guillaume Isabelle....
Página 113 - On the lOth, news arrived from Montreal that, on the 29th of July, two Iroquois, having slipped in under cover of the corn, had attacked Martine, wife of Antoine Primot, — who, by defending herself courageously, gave the soldiers of the fort time to come to her aid, and put the enemy to flight. She received six shots, not one of which was mortal. On the 1 8th, 4 frenchmen were attacked by 8 Iroquois canoes, between 3 Rivers and the Cape; Maturin Guillet and La Boujonnier were killed on the spot....
Página 101 - Two Huron women, mother and daughter, Annendok and Atondech, with a little son four years old, were seized at Montreal by a band of 50 or 60 Iroquois. They had gone to a secluded place, in order to get some meat from a Moose, which four frenchmen had killed there. On the...
Página 107 - A band of 80 Iroquois appeared at Three Rivers, — at first to the number of 8, who, issuing from the wood, rushed upon two canoes which were approaching the land opposite Three Rivers, where they had gone accompanied by a shallop, to inspect some fish-lines. But, Our men having abandoned their canoes and taken refuge in the shallop, there appeared a greater number of Iroquois, who discharged 40 or 50 shots upon the shallop, — in which no one was hurt save Atseh"a, a Huron Captain, but slightly...
Página 213 - Toutes ces beaut6s ne s'eftallent que pour toucher les baggage, and even the boat, in order to go and find some other river, or make one's way around these rapids and Torrents ; and it is often necessary to go on for several leagues, loaded down like mules, and climbing mountains and descending into valleys, amid a thousand difficulties and a thousand fears, and among rocks or amid thickets known only to unclean animals.
Página 99 - Tsondoutannen, was killed by a band of 14 Iroquois. The two frenchmen remained dead on the spot; the Huron was Led away captive. This took place on the Three Rivers, at the third portage. The Huron afterward escaped, and arrived at Three Rivers on the 28th, giving news of the disaster. On the 1 3th of the same month of May, the Algonquins, having gone up for trade to the whitefish tribe, fell into the ambushes of that band of 14 who had killed Father Bureux.

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