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, Volumen59

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Establishment of Jesuit missions: Abenaki ; Quebec ; Montreal ; Huron ; Iroquois ; Ottawa ; and Lousiana.
 

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Página 139 - While conversing about these monsters, sailing quietly in clear and calm Water, we heard the noise of a rapid, into which we were about to run. I have seen nothing more dreadful. An accumulation of large and entire trees, branches, and floating islands, was issuing from The mouth of The river
Página 159 - We found on it a village of Ilinois called Kaskasia, consisting of 74 Cabins. They received us very well, and obliged me to promise that I would return to instruct them. One of the chiefs of this nation, with his young men, escorted us to the Lake of the Ilinois, whence, at last, at The
Página 97 - AND ARRIVE AT MISSISIPI. HERE we are at Maskoutens. This Word may, in Algonquin, mean " the fire Nation,"—which, indeed, is the name given to this tribe. Here is the limit of the discoveries which the french have made, For they have not yet gone any farther. This Village Consists of three Nations who have gathered
Página 109 - is smaller, as are also the eyes — is a large Bone shaped Like a woman's busk, three fingers wide and a Cubit Long, at the end of which is a disk as Wide As one's hand. This frequently causes it to fall backward when it leaps out of the water.
Página 115 - frenchman, when thou comest to visit us ! All our village awaits thee, and thou shalt enter all our Cabins in peace. " Having said this, he made us enter his own, in which were a crowd of people ; they devoured us with their eyes, but, nevertheless, observed profound silence. We could, however, hear these words,
Página 197 - above all, of dying in it, as he had always prayed, in a Wretched cabin in the midst of the forests and bereft of all human succor. After that, he was silent, communing within himself with God. Nevertheless, he let escape from time to time these words, Sustinuit anima
Página 201 - in the presence of the 30 Canoes, which were still on the water, and of the people who were on the shore. After that, the Body was carried to the church, care being taken to observe all that the ritual appoints in such ceremonies. It remained exposed under the pall, all that
Página 143 - A short distance above the river of which I have just spoken are cliffs, on which our frenchmen noticed an iron mine, which they consider very rich. There are several veins of ore, and a bed a foot thick, and one sees large masses of it united with Pebbles. A sticky earth is found there, of three different
Página 161 - and during three days I preached the faith in all their Cabins ; after which, while we were embarking, a dying child was brought to me at The water's edge, and I baptized it shortly before it died, through an admirable act of providence for the salvation of that Innocent soul.
Página 109 - more creatures of this sort. When we cast our nets into the water we caught Sturgeon, and a very extraordinary Kind of fish. It resembles the trout, with This difference, that its mouth is larger. Near its nose—which is smaller, as are also the

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