The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614

Je vis cette fille de 8 a 9 ans, toute transie et n'ayant plus que la peau et les os. Je la demanday à ses parens pour la baptiser. Ils me respondirent que si je la voulois, ils...

As for me, I received that day the greater part of the welcome; for, as I was unarmed, the most honorable of them, turning their backs upon the soldiers, approached me with a th...

As sieur de Poutrincourt sailed along the coast, while accompanying his son upon his return, he found some Savages whom he knew, encamped upon an island and engaged in fishing;...

We went to see the Malouins; namely, [59] Sieur du Pont, the younger, and captain Merveilles, who, as we have said, were wintering at St. John river, upon an island called Emene...

When the winter was over and the mildness of the weather allured the fish to seek fresh water, upon the 14th of April, men were sent out fishing. There are a great many streams...

33 (p. 165).--The subject of agriculture among the Indians is exhaustively treated in Carr's "Mounds of the Mississippi Valley," in _Smithsonian Report_ (Washington, 1891), pp....

We follow the style and make-up of O'Callaghan's Reprint of Biard's _Missio Canadensis_, designated as "No. 1" in the Lenox Catalogue. According to Sommervogel's _Bibliothèque d...

Monsieur the Prince de Condé. Monsieur the Prince de Conty. M. the Count de Soissons.[24] M. the Duke de Nevers.[25] M. the Duke de Guise.[26] M. the Prince de Joinville. M. the...

ARGALL left Port Royal and started for Virginia in the early part of November of the year 1613, but, on the day after he set sail, an exceedingly violent storm arose, by which t...

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Le 11. de May la sonde fut iettée, & se trouva fond à 80. brasses: indice que l'on estoit sur le Banc des Moruës. Là ils s'arréterent pour auoir le rafraichissement de la pecher...

POTRINCOURT, the father of Biencourt, had sailed for France in the month of July for the sake of procuring supplies, of which there was a great scarcity in the colony at Port Ro...

_AFTER the Fathers of the Society of_ Jesus _had overcome the ill-will of their enemies and again been admitted into_ France,[7] _they felt themselves called to other fields for...

Their whole religion consists of certain incantations, dances and sorcery, which they have recourse to, it seems, either to procure the necessaries of life or to get rid of thei...

They accepted baptism as a sort of sacred pledge of friendship and alliance with the French. As regards Christ, the Church, the Faith and the Symbol, the commandments of GOD, pr...

THE English, a few years before, had occupied Virginia, which John Verazano, in 1523, had explored under the authority of Francis I., King of France, and brought under his juris...

_Potrincourt, Sieur Jean de, asks for colonists for New France_ 20 _arrives in New France_ 24 _his family is the only one in Acadia_ 25 _praises the zeal of the Fathers_ 27 _the...

Towards the end of Spring, when Membertou's children had gone hunting, where they remained a long time, it happened that Membertou was sorely pressed for food; and in this time...

MEANWHILE, the greatest desire of our brethren, zealously occupied with the performance of their duties, was at the start to know the language of the natives, which the Frenchme...

NOVA Francia Gallis adeuntibus gemino littore patet; altero, quod angusta fronte Oceano nostro, & Orienti obtenditur: altero, quod productiore tractu ad Floridæ vsque confinia A...

Potrincourt had asked of Henry IV. the fort at Port Royal, because it had been granted as a gift to him by sieur de Monts at the very time of its establishment, which was perhap...

MEANTIME in France the authority of the Queen was interposed, that we might at the first opportunity be relieved from our bondage at Port Royal, and that we might be allowed, in...

Such are the things achieved at home; let us now consider what has been done elsewhere. I have explored with Sieur Biencourt a large part of this whole region--all that portion,...

67 (p. 209).--Named by Cartier (1535), Island of Bacchus, from the profusion of wild grapes found there. Thévet (_Gr. Insul._) says it was called by the natives Minigo. Its late...