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, Volumen41

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Burrows brothers Company, 1899

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Página 69 - One calls me a brother, another an uncle, another a cousin ; never have I had so many kinsfolk. At a quarter of a league from the village, I began a harangue which brought me into high favor; I called by name all the Captains, families, and persons of importance,— speaking slowly, and
Página 63 - the completed Cabin, " as if to express that they constituted but one family. " Well, then," he continued, ' ' will you not enter the cabin by the door, which is at the ground floor of the house ? It is with us Anniehronnons, that you should begin ; whereas you,
Página 91 - and Huron Nations when they should wish to visit us in our French settlements. I made three gifts with this request. " Finally, with the nineteenth present, I wiped away the tears of all the young warriors, caused by the death of their great Captain Anneneraes,
Página 63 - by beginning with the Onnontaehronnons, try to enter by the roof and through the chimney. Have you no fear that the smoke may blind you, our fire not being extinguished, and that you may fall
Página 69 - intercepting here and there the course of this very peaceful river. The land toward the North appears to us excellent. Toward the rising sun is a chain of high mountains which we named after saint Margaret. "The
Página 189 - they shall Judge most convenient to Them, the said space and extent of ten Leagues square is to be Possessed by The Said Reverend Jesuit fathers, Their successors and Assigns, in freehold forever,
Página 99 - not drink, as they say there is an evil spirit in it that renders it foul. Upon tasting of it, I find it to be a spring of salt water ; and indeed we made some salt from it, as natural as that which comes from the sea, and are carrying a sample of it to Quebec. This lake is very rich in salmon-trout
Página 99 - We push forward down the same River, which is of a fine width and deep throughout, with the exception of some shoals where we must step into the water and drag the canoe after us, lest the rocks break it. " The 20th. We arrive at the great lake Ontario, called the lake of the Iroquois.
Página 101 - On the 24th and 25th we were detained by the wind. On the 26th, our boatmen having embarked before the storm had subsided, one of our canoes sprang a leak, and we narrowly escaped drowning; but at last we took refuge on an island, where we dried ourselves at our leisure.
Página 97 - We arrive at the entrance to a little lake in a great basin that is half dried up, and taste the water from a spring of which these people dare

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