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Abbé adventure Albany Baron de Longueuil barque Beauharnois beaver brother build built Burnet Canada Canadian canoes Captain carried Céloron Chabert chief colony command Conty council Denonville Denonville's Detroit documents Dongan English establishment expedition fall Father Five Nations Fort Frontenac Fort Niagara France French Frontenac fur trade garrison Governor Griffon Hennepin Hontan house at Niagara Huron Indians Irondequoit Iroquois Jean Jesuit Joncaire Joncaire's Jonquière journey July King King's Lake Erie Lake Ontario land later leagues Léry letter livres Longueuil Louis Mackinac Minister mission missionary Montreal mouth Niagara portage Niagara region officers Ohio Onondagas Oswego Ottawa passed peltries present priest prisoners Quebec reached records river route sachems sailed Salle Salle's savages says Senecas sent Shawanese Six Nations soldiers south shore tion told Tonty treaty tribes Vaudreuil vessel villages western winter wrote York
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Página 97 - ... our Rum doth as little hurt as your Brandy and in the opinion of Christians is much more wholesome : however to keep the Indians temperate and sober is a very good and Christian performance but to prohibit them all strong liquors...
Página 331 - ... Two Indians determined to walk to this island by the help of these poles, to save the other poor creatures, or perish themselves. They took leave of all their friends as if they were going to death. Each had two such poles in his hands, to set against the bottom of the stream, to keep them steady. So they went and got to the island, and having given poles to the two poor Indians there, they all returned safely to the main.
Página 26 - We discovered a river oneeighth of a league wide and extremely rapid, which is the outlet or communication from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. The depth of this stream (for it is properly the River St. Lawrence) is prodigious at this spot ; for at the very shore there are 15 or 16 fathoms of water, which fact we proved by dropping our line.
Página 191 - ... quit claimed, and by these presents doe for us our heires and successors absolutely surrender, deliver up and for ever quit claime unto our great Lord and Master the King of England called by us Corachkoo and by the Christians William the third and to his heires and successors Kings and Queens of England for ever...
Página 28 - Intendent therein for the King, there 'arrived in this place two missionaries of the Seminary of Montreal, accompanied by seven other Frenchmen, who the first of all European people have wintered on this lake, of which they have taken possession in the name of their King, as of an unoccupied territory, by affixing his arms which they have attached here to the foot of this cross.
Página 331 - Each had two such poles in his hands, to set against the bottom of the stream, to keep them steady. So they went and got to the island, and having given poles to the two poor Indians there, they all returned safely to the main. Those two Indians who in the above mentioned manner were first brought to this island, are yet alive. They were nine days on the island, and almost starved to death.
Página 368 - I desire you may go home directly, off from our lands, and tell Onontio to send us word immediately, what was his reason for using our brothers so; or, what he means by such proceedings, that we may know what to do, for I can assure Onontio, that we, the Six Nations, will not take such usage. You hear what I say ? These are the sentiments of our Nations. Tell *The French— 1. DR it to Onontio, that that is what the Six Nations said to you.
Página 348 - French during the time it was unlawful! so to doe, because most of them acquired great wealth by that means, whilst fair Traders did foregoe such advantages." These fines were to be applied to the Oswego debt. A preamble to an Act of October 29, 1730, sets forth that the Government held it just and equitable that the traders should maintain Oswego, " because they reap the entire bennifit of the said house " ; yet the General Assembly voted a tax of three shillings to be paid " by every Inhabitant...
Página 74 - His Majesty has been informed that Father Hennepin, a Dutch Franciscan who has formerly been in Canada, is desirous of returning thither. As his Majesty is not satisfied with the conduct of the Friar, it is his pleasure that if he return thither, they arrest and send him to the Intendant at Rochefort...