Category: History - American
XX. This document (dated Quebec, August 28, 1632) is Le Jeune's famous _Relation_ of 1632, the first of the Cramoisy series, which were thereafter annually issued until 1672. In this document, Le Jeune, the new superior of the Canada mission, relates to the French provincial o...
Le troisiesme du mesme mois, la femme de nostre Sauuage estant malade, il me vint demander mon canif pour la saigner. Les Sauuages se tirent du sang de la teste. Estant vn iour...
9. Part 9Ie diray en passant que cette langue est fort pauure, & fort riche. Elle est pauure, pour autant que n'ayãs point de cognoissance de mille & [37] mille choses qui sont en l'Euro...
12. Part 12The Messou, very much astonished, gave up all thoughts of his lynxes, to meditate on creating the world anew. He sent a raven to find a small piece of the earth, with which to b...
15. Part 15A Captain once asked the Englishman who was here to help them in their wars; the Englishman, wishing to evade him, answered with superficial reasons: to wit, that some of his me...
16. Part 16[234 i.e., 134] Tu dis que nous prenions garde à ce que nous ferons, tu nous pinse au bras, & nous fremissons: tu nous pinse puis apres au cœur, et tout le corps nous tremble. N...
5. Part 5They had pulled out their nails with their teeth as soon as they were taken. They cut their fingers off on the day of their torture; then they tied their two arms together at th...
13. Part 13Vne chose me semble plus qu'intolerable, c'est qu'on est pesle-mesle, fille, femme, homme, garçõs tous ensemble dans vn trou enfumé; & plus on s'auance en la cognoissance [93] d...
7. Part 7Arriué que ie fus aux cabanes des Sauuages, ie vey leur secherie d'anguilles. Ce sont les femmes qui exercent ce mestier. Elles vuidẽt ce poisson, le lauent fort bien, l'ouurant...
8. Part 8On the first day of November, all Saints' day, having learned that a poor miserable Savage, eaten by a malignant ulcer or scrofulous affection, was in a wretched hut beyond the...
20. Part 20Sur le soir le Pere Brebeuf estant allé à Kebec ou au fort des François, où estoient les Hurons pour voir ceux auec lesquels nos Peres s'embarqueroient, le Capitaine de la Roche...
14. Part 14The heat here is intense and burning, and yet I have observed since I have been here that there has been frost every month of the year. I am not surprised at these frosts. We ha...
10. Part 10[51] At the time of this occurrence some one told me that, when a Savage dies, the others strike on his cabin, crying: "oué, oué, oué," etc. And when I asked a Savage the reason...
6. Part 6All considered, this country here is very fine. As soon as we had entered into our little home, the 13th of July, we began to work and dig the earth, to sow purslane and turnips...
22. Part 2237 (p. 115).--_Sagamo_: cf. vol. i., _note_ 16. This word appears, in varying forms, in many Algonkin dialects. The Abenaki word, according to Kidder, is "s_o_gm_o_,"--_o_ being...
21. Part 214 (p. 11).--_Low Sunday_: the first Sunday after Easter, so called because Easter is High Sunday. It is also called White Sunday, because on that day the neophytes wear their wh...
2. Part 2Le iour de la Saincte Trinité nous fumes contraints de relascher à Gaspay; c'est vne grande baie d'eau qui entre dans ce païs; c'est icy où nous mimes pied à terre pour la premi...
17. Part 17Le second iour de Iuillet, vn de nos François fut assommé lauant la lessiue [248 i.e., 148] en vn ruisseau voisin du fort, on creut que c'estoit quelque Hiroquois; on court, on...
1. Part 1XX. This document (dated Quebec, August 28, 1632) is Le Jeune's famous _Relation_ of 1632, the first of the Cramoisy series, which were thereafter annually issued until 1672. In...
19. Part 19On the 29th of the same month of July, having learned that the Hurons were to hold a council, when they would take some action concerning our Fathers who were destined for their...
4. Part 4At length, on the 5th of July, which was Monday,--two months and 18 days since the 18th of April, when we sailed,--[34] we reached the much desired port. We cast anchor in front...
18. Part 18The next day Father de Nouë and I went to see the child. Our fear lest he should die without being baptized made us set out in the midst of very stormy weather; the wind and rai...
3. Part 3Pendant que ces pauures captifs chantoient & dançoient, il y en auoit de nostre equipage qui se rioient voyans cette barbarie: mais ô mon Dieu quel triste subiet de rire! c'est...
23. Part 2361 (p. 263).--This abandoned village was known among the Hurons as Toanché. As stated in _note_ 58, _ante_, Étienne Brulé was murdered there in 1633. The Indians, dreading lest...