Category: History - American
WE call New France,[1] the lands and countries of America or the West Indies, which are upon the other shore of the Ocean of Guienne,[2] towards the setting Sun, opposite us and lying directly in the same line from East to West. [2] They have given it this name of New France p...
VIRGINIA is that continent which our forefathers called _Mocosa_, between Florida and new France under the 36th, 37th, and 38th parallels of north latitude. This country was fir...
2. CHAPTER II.THIS country being, as we have said, parallel to our France, that is, in the same climate and latitude, by a principle of Astrology it ought to have the same physical forces, de...
10. CHAPTER X.IT is against nature, in whatever aspect you may [102] wish to take it, that the child, as soon as it is born, is able to nourish and sustain itself: for it is not in vain that...
6. CHAPTER VI.CONTRARY to our custom, in their marriages the father does not give a dower to his daughter to establish her with some one, but [61] the lover gives beautiful and suitable prese...
4. CHAPTER IV.THE nature of our Savages is in itself generous and not malicious. They have rather a happy disposition, and a fair capacity for judging and valuing material and common things;...
17. CHAPTER XXI. [i.e., xviii.WE remarked a little while ago that this visit to St. John river was only a diversion from the greater expedition to the Armouchiquois to get some corn. Now when we had thus com...
11. CHAPTER XII. [i.e., xi.ON THE CAUSES WHICH LED THE JESUITS TO GO TO NEW FRANCE IN 1611, AND WHAT HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED THERE BY THE FRENCH FROM THE YEAR 1608 UP TO THE TIME OF THEIR ARRIVAL.
14. CHAPTER XV. [i.e., xiv.OUR arrival caused great joy on both sides--great on the part of those arriving, because of their longings, and the tediousness of so long a voyage; [143] but more than double w...
7. CHAPTER VII.IT is true that great poverty stifles the spirit, and overwhelms it with its importunate and despotic sway, so that it can seldom turn to itself, or revel in agreeable meditatio...
3. CHAPTER III.THE soil, it seems to me, principally in Norambegue, is as good as that of France; you know this by its black color, by the high trees, strong and straight, which it nourishes,...
16. CHAPTER XVIII. [i.e., xvii.I SAID above that sieur de Biencourt took a barque away from Port aux Coquilles, that he might make a journey therewith to the Armouchiquois.[39] This is the name of the people...
8. CHAPTER VIII.THE sick man having been appointed by the Autmoin to die, as we have said, all the relations and neighbors assemble and, with the greatest possibles solemnity, he delivers his f...
5. CHAPTER V.THERE can be no more polity than there is Commonwealth, [50] since polity is nothing else than the regulation and government of the Commonwealth. Now these Savages not having a...
20. CHAPTER XXIII. [i.e., xxi.A RECONCILIATION was effected afterward, and everything calmed down. The Jesuits, devoting themselves to the study and apprenticeship of the Savage language, thought a good way...
15. CHAPTER XVII. [i.e., xvi.TOWARD the end of the month of August of the same year, 1611, sieur de Biencourt having heard that the ship of Captain Plastrier, from the town of Honfleur, was engaged in fishi...
1. CHAPTER I.WE call New France,[1] the lands and countries of America or the West Indies, which are upon the other shore of the Ocean of Guienne,[2] towards the setting Sun, opposite us and...
21. CHAPTER XXIV. [i.e., xxii.Sieur de Biencourt fully expected to receive help from France before Winter, especially as it had been said that there were three or four ships on the way, and already we were l...
12. CHAPTER XIII. [i.e., xii.THE persecuted and triumphant Woman, whom St. John saw in his Revelation, namely, the Church of God, or more mystically, any heroic soul, _Cruciatur_ [131] _ut pariat_; endures...
22. CHAPTER XXV. [i.e., xxiii.Le chef de cet equipage estoit le Capitaine la Saussaye ayant trente personnes, qui deuoyent hyuerner sur le pays, en contant les deux Iesuites, & leur seruiteur qu'il deuoit pr...
18. CHAPTER XX. [i.e., xix.SIEUR du Potrincourt having returned to France in the month of August of the year 1611, as has been said above, searched on all sides for ways and means of being able to help hi...
13. CHAPTER XIV. [i.e., xiii.NEVER was the coming of the high tide more opportune to a stranded ship to free it from the shallow waters, and place it again upon the high sea with its prow turned toward home...
24. did. The Pilot incidentally remarked to these Savages that thePort Royal Fathers were in his ship. They answered that they would like very much to see the one with whom they [222] had become acquainted two years before at Pentegoet. This w...
19. CHAPTER XXI. [i.e., xx.GREAT was the rejoicing over the relief afforded by the arrival of this ship, on account of the severe straits to which the colonists had been reduced, and the dread which they...
9. CHAPTER IX.YOU have heard up to the present about the nature of the lands of new France, and the more important habits, arts, and customs of the inhabitants. Now, after considering the who...
23. CHAPTER XXVI. [i.e., xxiv.NOW here in this Port of St. Sauveur a great contention arose between the Sailors and our company, or us other passengers, because the charter party and contract, drawn up in Fr...