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, Volumen22Reuben Gold Thwaites Burrows Brothers Company, 1898 |
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Página 207 - Champlain, certainly describes its natural advantages, how it "gives access and an admirable approach to all the Nations of this vast country ... so that, if peace prevailed among these peoples they would land thereon from all sides"; but does he suggest, as Champlain does, that this will provide a profitable trade?
Página 307 - Iroquois now prepare new ambushes for them, and if they take them alive, they wreak on them all the cruelty of their tortures. And this evil is almost without remedy; for, besides the fact that when they are going to trade their furs, they are not equipped for war, the Iroquois now use firearms which they buy from the Flemings, who dwell on their Shores. A single discharge of fifty or sixty arquebuses would be sufficient to cause terror to a thousand Hurons who might be going down in company and...
Página 83 - Some Pagan young men, observing this violence, — of which the Savages have a horror, and which is more remote from their customs than Heaven is from Earth , — made use of threats , declaring that they would kill any one who laid a hand on the woman. But the Captain and his people, who were Christians, boldly replied that there was nothing that they would not do or endure , in order to secure obedience to God.
Página 241 - Write to France, and tell the Captains to send ships here and not to send us any more of those poisons that destroy us, that take away our senses, and cause us untimely death.
Página 291 - Presents among these peoples despatch all the affairs of the country. They dry up tears; they appease anger ; they open the doors of foreign countries; they deliver prisoners; they bring the dead back to life; one hardly ever speaks or answers, except by presents.
Página 215 - ' are the places where stood Villages filled with great numbers of Savages. The Hurons, who then were our enemies, drove our Forefathers from this country. Some [133] went towards the country of the Abnaquiois, others towards the country of the Hiroquois, some to the Hurons themselves, and joined them.
Página 291 - ... received in the person of one of its members. "They have only one method of justice for injuries," says the Jesuit Relations, "which is that the whole village must make amends by presents." And again, "The presents given on account of the death of a man who has been killed are very numerous. * * * It is not usually the assassin who gives them, but his relatives, his village, or his nation, according to the quality or condition of the prson who has been put to death.
Página 209 - Their intention is to have houses built in which to lodge the savages, to till the soil in order to feed them ; to establish seminaries for their instruction and an...
Página 307 - Iroquois prepare new ambushes for them, and, if they take them alive, they wreak on them all the cruelty of their tortures. And this evil is almost without remedy; for, besides the fact that, when they are going to trade their furs, they are not equipped for war, the Iroquois now use firearms, which they buy from the Flemings, who dwell on their Shores. A single discharge of fifty or sixty arquebuses would be sufficient to cause terror to a thousand Hurons who might be going down in company, and...
Página 83 - After this assembly," said the Father, "Consult thy people privately and ask them what is to be done in such a case of disobedience." They all decided upon harsh measures. "Good advice," they said, "has not brought her to her senses; a prison will do so.