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, Volumen15

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Burrows Bros. Company, 1898
Establishment of Jesuit missions: Abenaki ; Quebec ; Montreal ; Huron ; Iroquois ; Ottawa ; and Lousiana.

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Página 157 - ... and k, — these are the two letters which they find difficult to pronounce.8 They nearly all show more intelligence in their business, speeches, courtesies, intercourse, tricks, and subtleties, than do the shrewdest citizens and merchants in France. They regulate the seasons of the year by the wild beasts, the fish, the birds, and the vegetation ; they count the years, days, and months by the moon. They have no government at all ; such power as the captains have is little more than that of criers...
Página 64 - Dieu me fait la grace d'aller au Ciel, ie prieray Dieu pour eux, pour les pauures Hurons, & n'oublieray pas Voftre Reuerence. Apres tout, nous fupplions VR & tous nos [30] Peres de ne nous oublier en leurs faincts Sacrifices & prieres, afin qu'en la vie, & apres la mort, il nous faffe mifericorde ; nous fommes tous en la vie & à l'Eternité.
Página 181 - ... and like objects. 3. Nearly all the Savages have charms, to which they speak and make feasts, in order to obtain from them what they desire. 4. The devil has his religious; those who serve him must be deprived of all their possessions, they must abstain from women, they must obey perfectly all that the devil suggests to them.
Página 161 - ... the rain, then, and my exhaustion, as well as the distance of five or six leagues, and my ignorance of the way, constrained me to stop at the first village, and take some little nourishment. Accordingly, I entered the cabin of a captain of the village; the salutation they offered me was a chay in their language, — this is the usual greeting, and means '
Página 223 - Last year, a Canadian Savage, the son of one Iwanchou, a Savage captain well known to the French, went to France and was very well received by his Majesty, at whose feet he laid his Crown of Porcelain beads,1 as a sign that he recognized that great Prince, in the name of these nations, as their true and lawful Monarch.
Página 69 - CHAPTER IV. OF THE HURONS BAPTIZED THIS YEAR, 1638. IF we found the doors closed in other villages, — where two or three hundred died, alas ! without assistance, — God has inclined to us some minds and ears in this village, that have very willingly received his blessed word. We have [32] baptized more than one hundred persons, both adults and little children, forty-four of whom are now, as we believe, in Heaven ; at least we are quite sure of twenty-two little innocent Souls that death took from...
Página 235 - ask your Countryman if what I told you of the greatness of our King and of the beauty of our country be not true? And do not any more call in question what I shall hereafter tell you." This good Savage related marvels, but according to his own range of understanding. Although he had greatly admired many things, — among others, the great multitude in Paris; the great number of cookshops; the collossal Saint Christophle of Nostre Dame, which at first sight, caused him much terror; the Coaches, which...
Página 207 - Sent to the REVEREND FATHER PROVINCIAL of the Society of JESUS in the Province of France. By Father Paul Le Jeune, of the same Society, Superior of the Residence of Ktbec.
Página 246 - Their cabins are in the shape of tunnels or arbors and are covered with the bark of trees. They are from twenty-five to thirty fathoms long, more or less, and six wide, having a passageway through the middle from ten to twelve feet wide, which extends from one end to the other. On the two...
Página 158 - Rivieres; tout ce qu'on peut envoyer, c'est quelques ornemens d'eglise, du vin pour la messe (on en met seulement quatre ou cinq gouttes dans les calices) et quelques habits, quelques pruneaux et raisins pour les malades du [ 1 74] bourg : le tout court grand risque par les chemins.

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