4. So much for the temporal; but as to the spiritual, in which the inexpressible grace of God raises us to the surname and glory of "most Christian," let us calculate and sum up the benefits which accompanyand favor us [335 i.e., 337] continually after this first one, which is our calling to the Holy Church and knowledge of our Savior, Jesus Christ; and then we shall be able to estimate how great would be our ingratitude, and how horrible the chastisement it would bring with it, if we do not try to enhance the value of this grace by communicating it to our fellow-men in proportion to our means and opportunities. Such chastisement has been wisely commented upon by the venerable Bede. For, shortly before his age, the Scotch were illuminated by a divine light, so that they saw themselves fallen into heterodoxy by delusions and inadvertence; while the Bretons, or those people of the Province of Wales, were cast into the abyss and shadows of the outskirts of Hell, the heresies; of these two so contrary and opposite effects this great and Saintly Man, [336 i.e., 338] so truly acquainted with the works of providence and Eternal Justice, attributes the causes to the two different dispositions of the two nations. "For," says he, "the Scotch had previously given to the English, through great charity and devotion, what they had received of Evangelical truth; and therefore God wished to show them mercy in a full and overflowing measure, opening their eyes that they might see themselves deceived and mistaken. While the Bretons, either through negligence or other lack of spiritual moderation, were quite indifferent when they saw the English perishing miserably in their infidelity; therefore they deserved, as ungrateful servants, to lose the talent of the Catholic faith, which they had not deigned to profit by, either for others or for themselves." Oh, what [337 i.e., 339] food there is for reflection and discourse upon this subject!
4. So much for the temporal; but as to the spiritual, in which the inexpressible grace of God raises us to the surname and glory of "most Christian," let us calculate and sum up the benefits which accompanyand favor us [335 i.e., 337] continually after this first one, which is our calling to the Holy Church and knowledge of our Savior, Jesus Christ; and then we shall be able to estimate how great would be our ingratitude, and how horrible the chastisement it would bring with it, if we do not try to enhance the value of this grace by communicating it to our fellow-men in proportion to our means and opportunities. Such chastisement has been wisely commented upon by the venerable Bede. For, shortly before his age, the Scotch were illuminated by a divine light, so that they saw themselves fallen into heterodoxy by delusions and inadvertence; while the Bretons, or those people of the Province of Wales, were cast into the abyss and shadows of the outskirts of Hell, the heresies; of these two so contrary and opposite effects this great and Saintly Man, [336 i.e., 338] so truly acquainted with the works of providence and Eternal Justice, attributes the causes to the two different dispositions of the two nations. "For," says he, "the Scotch had previously given to the English, through great charity and devotion, what they had received of Evangelical truth; and therefore God wished to show them mercy in a full and overflowing measure, opening their eyes that they might see themselves deceived and mistaken. While the Bretons, either through negligence or other lack of spiritual moderation, were quite indifferent when they saw the English perishing miserably in their infidelity; therefore they deserved, as ungrateful servants, to lose the talent of the Catholic faith, which they had not deigned to profit by, either for others or for themselves." Oh, what [337 i.e., 339] food there is for reflection and discourse upon this subject!
Mais soit assez d'auoir au deuant de nos yeux que ces pauures peuples, ces images de nostre Dieu comme116nous, & capables de sa iouyssance, ces consorts de nostre espece, & presque de mesme qualité auec nous, sont sur le bord de l'horrible gouffre des feux infernaux, voire plusieurs centaines d'iceux precipitez chaque iour dans les peines eternelles, & abysmes de damnation, sans espoir de deliurance. O Dieu! nous nous estonnons de ces iugements espouuentables; comme il y a bien dequoy s'estonner; mais nous n'auons pas le sens pour apperceuoir, ny l'entendemẽt pour recognoistre, que le sang de ceste si cruelle exequution est dessus nos mains, qui ne nous euertuons pas de l'empescher: dessus nos [338 i.e., 340] pieds, qui ne nous remuons point pour y remedier; dessus nos maisons, qui les bastissons tant superbement, sans nous soucier de l'eternelle demeure de nos freres; dessus nos bourses, nos possessiõs, nos moyens, & nostre cœur qui sommes si peu esmeus de tels spectacles & contribuons si peu, là où le Fils de Dieu, nostre Sauueur, n'a point espargné sa vie. Plaise luy nous faire misericorde, & receuoir de nous, & de toute creature loüange, & benediction, à tous les siecles des siecles. Ainsi soit-il.FIN.
Mais soit assez d'auoir au deuant de nos yeux que ces pauures peuples, ces images de nostre Dieu comme116nous, & capables de sa iouyssance, ces consorts de nostre espece, & presque de mesme qualité auec nous, sont sur le bord de l'horrible gouffre des feux infernaux, voire plusieurs centaines d'iceux precipitez chaque iour dans les peines eternelles, & abysmes de damnation, sans espoir de deliurance. O Dieu! nous nous estonnons de ces iugements espouuentables; comme il y a bien dequoy s'estonner; mais nous n'auons pas le sens pour apperceuoir, ny l'entendemẽt pour recognoistre, que le sang de ceste si cruelle exequution est dessus nos mains, qui ne nous euertuons pas de l'empescher: dessus nos [338 i.e., 340] pieds, qui ne nous remuons point pour y remedier; dessus nos maisons, qui les bastissons tant superbement, sans nous soucier de l'eternelle demeure de nos freres; dessus nos bourses, nos possessiõs, nos moyens, & nostre cœur qui sommes si peu esmeus de tels spectacles & contribuons si peu, là où le Fils de Dieu, nostre Sauueur, n'a point espargné sa vie. Plaise luy nous faire misericorde, & receuoir de nous, & de toute creature loüange, & benediction, à tous les siecles des siecles. Ainsi soit-il.
FIN.
But let it be enough to keep before our eyes the vision of these poor natives, these images of our God as we are, and as capable of enjoying him, these companions of our own species, and almost of the same quality as we, who are upon the edge of the horrible gulf of the fires of hell, many of them even precipitated every day into eternal torments, and profound depths of everlasting punishment, without hope of deliverance. O God! we are amazed at these frightful judgments, as there is much in them to cause our amazement; but we have not the sense to perceive, nor the understanding to appreciate, that the blood of this so cruel execution is upon our hands, who do not exert ourselves to prevent it; upon our [338 i.e., 340] feet, which do not move to remedy it; upon our houses, which we build so magnificently without caring for the eternal dwellings of our brothers; upon our purses, our possessions, our wealth, and our hearts, which are so little moved by such spectacles and contribute so little to that for which the Son of God, our Savior, did not spare even his life. May it please him to grant us mercy, and to receive from us and from all his creatures, praises and blessings forever and ever. Amen.END.
But let it be enough to keep before our eyes the vision of these poor natives, these images of our God as we are, and as capable of enjoying him, these companions of our own species, and almost of the same quality as we, who are upon the edge of the horrible gulf of the fires of hell, many of them even precipitated every day into eternal torments, and profound depths of everlasting punishment, without hope of deliverance. O God! we are amazed at these frightful judgments, as there is much in them to cause our amazement; but we have not the sense to perceive, nor the understanding to appreciate, that the blood of this so cruel execution is upon our hands, who do not exert ourselves to prevent it; upon our [338 i.e., 340] feet, which do not move to remedy it; upon our houses, which we build so magnificently without caring for the eternal dwellings of our brothers; upon our purses, our possessions, our wealth, and our hearts, which are so little moved by such spectacles and contribute so little to that for which the Son of God, our Savior, did not spare even his life. May it please him to grant us mercy, and to receive from us and from all his creatures, praises and blessings forever and ever. Amen.
END.
118Table des Choses Plvs Remarqvables.ABSENCEdu P. Biard occasiõne les François de ne s'exposer au danger de se perdre.p.178.Acadie, pays des Souriquois, proche de Canada.p.4.Açores, Isles de la couronne d'Espaigne.p.281.Aguigueou, Asticou, Betsabes Capitaines Canadois offrent aux François prins par l'Anglois, de les retirer & entretenir.p.35.Alain Yeon Pilote de S. Malo charitable enuers les François de S. Sauueur.p.257.Ambassadeur de France en Angleterre, sollicite la liberté des Iesuites de Canada captifs.p.296.Anglois auancent quatre vingts lieuës sur la nouuelle France.p.228.Anglois desfaict par l'Armouchiquois, & pourquoy.p.179.Anglois habitués en la Virginie à deux cens cinquante lieuës des François de S. Sauueur.p.227.Anglois conduicts à S. Sauueur par mesgarde des Canadins, qui les croyoyent estre François.p.229.Anglois enuabissent le nauire des François de S. Sauueur, pillent l'habitation, captiuent les François.p.235.Anglois desrobe finement aux François leurs lettres Royaux, pour les priuer de iuste defense en leur captiuité.p.238.Anglois pouuant ietter en mer les Iesuites captifs, pour ne se perdre à leur occasion, se contente de les cacher.p.286.120Anglois contraints d'aborder aux Açores, sont garentis par la charité des Iesuites leurs prisonniers.p.289.Anglois recognoissans du bon office receu des Iesuites.p.290.Anglois tenant captifs les Iesuites, soupçonné d'estre pirate par les siens mesmes.pag.29.Anglois soupçonné d'estre pirate, se iustifie par le tesmoignage des Iesuites ses prisonniers.p.293.Anglois apprehendent d'aborder aux terres de l'Espagnol, auec des Iesuites captifs.p.285.Anglois n'ont que pretendre en la nouuelle France.p.320.Anguilles se peschent en my-Septembre.p.47.Arbres fruictiers fort rares en Canada.p.31.Arbres forestiers de Canada.p.32.Arcs & pauois sur la tombe des hommes.p.92.Ardoise en Canada.p.32.Argal Capitaine Anglois se saisit secrettement des commissions des François de S. Sauueur.p.238.Argal Capitaine Anglois veut renuoyer en France tous les François dans vne chaloupe, auec euident danger de leur perte.p.251.Argal Capitaine Anglois s'oppose fort au Mareschal de la Virginie, à ce que ses prisonniers les François ne soyent pendus.p.262.Argal Capitaine Anglois equitable.p.270.Armes des Canadois, l'arc & la targue.p.55.Armoiries de Madame de Guerche-ville posées au Cap de la Heue, en signe de possession.p.216.Armouchiquois baillent grand soupçon aux François de les vouloir piller sous pretexte de trocque.p.178.Armouchiquois assés disposés au Christianisme.p.180.Assis. Estre assis, signe de reuerence entre les Canadois.p.91.122Association de la Marquise de Guercheville auec le sieur de Potrincourt au faict de Canada.p.188.Asticou Sagamo en la coste d'Acadie.p.222.Aumars, ou Cancres de mer, furent peschés par les François de S. Sauueur en leur grande disette.p.253.Auoir chien & sac, en Canada, est iouyr du droict de proprieté.p.51.Autmoinssont les Prestres des Canadois.p.54.Autmoins,Medecins & Sorciers engeollent les simples Canadois.p.79.Autmoinsse font donner force presents pour la cure des malades.p.87.Autmoinsinuocans Dieu par le nom du Soleil, en cas de necessité.p.96.
Index of the Most Important Subjects.ABSENCEof Father Biard causes the French not to expose themselves to danger of ruin.p.178Acadia, country of the Souriquois, near Canada.p.4Açores, Islands of the Spanish crown.p.281Aguigueou, Asticou, Betsabes, Canadian Captains, offer to the French, captured by the English, to take them away and maintain them.p.35Alain Yeon, Pilot of St. Malo, charitable towards the French of St. Sauveur.p.257Ambassador of France in England, solicits the liberation of the captive Jesuits of Canada.p.296Advancement of the English eighty leagues into new France.p.228English defeated by the Armouchiquois, and why.p.179English settled in Virginia, two hundred leagues from the French of St. Sauveur.p.227English guided to St. Sauveur through a misunderstanding of the Canadians, who supposed them to be French.p.229English invade the ship of the French of St. Sauveur, plunder the settlement, and capture the French.p.235English cunningly rob the French of their Royal patents, to prevent their making an honest defense in their captivity.p.238English, having power to throw the captive Jesuits into the sea, not to ruin themselves on their account, content themselves with hiding them.p.286English, compelled to land at the Açores, are rendered safe through the charity of the Jesuits, their captives.p.289English acknowledge this kind service of the Jesuits.p.290English, holding the Jesuits captive, themselves suspected of being pirates by their own countrymen.pag.29English, suspected of being pirates, are acquitted on the evidence of the Jesuits, their prisoners.p.293English are afraid to land upon Spanish territory, with their Jesuit prisoners.p.285English merely pretenders to new France.p.320Eel-fishing in the middle of September.p.47Fruit trees very rare in Canada.p.31Forest trees of Canada.p.32Bows and shields upon the men's graves.p.92Slate in Canada.p.32Argal, an English Captain, secretly seizes the commissions of the French of St. Sauveur.p.238Argal, an English Captain, wishes to send all the French to France in a small boat, with evident danger of their being lost.p.251Argal, an English Captain, strongly opposes the Marshal of Virginia, so that his French prisoners should not be hanged.p.262Argal, an English Captain, a just man.p.270Arms of the Canadians, the bow and the shield.p.55Armorial Bearings of Madame de Guerche-ville placed at Cap de la Heve, as a sign of possession.p.216Armouchiquois strongly suspected by the French of intending to plunder them, under pretext of trade.p.178Armouchiquois disposed favorably to Christianity.p.180Seated. To be seated, a sign of reverence among the Canadians.p.91Association of the Marquise de Guercheville with sieur de Potrincourt in Canadian affairs.p.188Asticou, a Sagamore on the coast of Acadia.p.222Lobsters, or sea Crabs, were caught by the French of St. Sauveur in their great poverty.p.253To have a dog and a bag, in Canada, is to enjoy the rights of property.p.51Autmoinsare the Priests of the Canadians.p.54Autmoins,Medicine men and Sorcerers dupe the simple Canadians.p.79Autmoinsrequire many presents for the cure of the sick.p.87Autmoinsinvoke God by the name of the Sun, when they are in need.p.96
B.Baie de Chinictou en Canada, estendue en belles prairies.p.27.Baie Françoise entre Port Royal, & la riuiere S. Jean.p.165.Baie des mines à vingt & deux lieuës de Port Royal.p.203.Baye de Genes, ainsi appellée par Chãplain.p.204.Baye des mines large de huict lieuës.p.205.Baptesme trop facilement conferé au Mexique, auec notable dommage des baptisés.p.106.Baptesme conferé aux Canadois non instruits au deuoir de Christianisme, & le mal qui en reussit.p.111.Baptesme des personnes aagées, non bien instruites, differé auec grande consideration.p.115.Baptesme desiré des Canadins auãt la mort.p.310.Baptesme guerit vn enfant Canadin malade à la mort.p.318.Baptisés en Canada sans precedente instruction, ne sçauoyent rien du Chrestien, non pas mesmes leur nom de Baptesme.p.109.124Basques ont alienés les Excomminquois en Canada de nos François.p.33.Biencourt & Robin en faueur des Caluinistes, consententque les Iesuites n'entrent dans leur nauire.p.134.Biencourt par le moyen des Iesuites fait voile en Canada, beaucoup plustost qu'il ne pouuoit autrement.p.138.Biencourt soupçonne que Madame de Guerche-ville le veut despoüiller des droicts de Canada.p.197.Bretons ont descouuert la France nouuelle.p.2.Bretons souuent malades en Canada.p.15.Cabanes d'Hyuer des Canadois, d'un clos rond de perches fermées en poincte par le haut, couuertes de peaux, nattes, ou escorces.p.40.41.Cabanes des Canadois toujours en bel aspect, & prés des bonnes eaux.p.41.Cabanes d'Esté des Canadois, larges & longues, & couuertes de nattes, ou escorces.p.42.Calais. Le Gouuerneur, & Doyen de Calais accueillent, & secourent charitablement les Iesuites de Canada renuoyés d'Angleterre.p.299.Caluinistes ne peuuent trouuer bon que les Iesuites passent en Canada, ouy biẽ tous autres Ecclesiastiques.p.133.Canada n'est qu'vne partie de la France nouuelle, sçauoir est, la coste du long de la grande riuiere Canadas.p.3. 4.Canada, Prouince de la France nouuelle premierement descouuerte par Iaques Cartier l'an 1524.p.4.Canada parallele à la France, en mesme climat, & eleuation de Pole.p.9.Canada plus froide que nostre France, & pourquoy.p.10.Canada sujecte au Scurbot, ou maladie de la terre.p.14.126Canada apporte maladie aux oiseux.p.16.Canada germe aussitost au Printemps que nostre France.p.18.Canada és endroits les plus froids rend les bleds meurs en son temps.p.19.Canada n'a point de hautes montagnes.p.20.Canada fort entrecoupée de riuieres, & bras de mer, en est renduë plus froide.p.23.Canada à cause des continuelles forests est moins eschauffée du Soleil, & pource plus froide que les campagnes ouuertes.p.24.Canada pour n'estre labourée est couuerte d'vne dure crouste, quasi impenetrable au Soleil, & partant beaucoup plus froide.p.24.Canada produict la vigne sauuage en beaucoup d'endroits, qui meurit en son temps.p.31.Canada és terres cogneües des François, n'a que dix mille habitans.p.73.Canada, horsmis Port Royal, donné à Madame de Guercheuille.p.190.Canada du Gouuernement du Prince de Soissons.p.330.Canada pourquoy doit estre cultiuée des François.p.331.Canadois fideles au François cõtre l'Anglois.p.34.Canadois charitables enuers les François captifs de l'Anglois.p.35.36.Canadois onthonnememoire des choses sensibles.p.36.Canadois comprennent, & iugent bien les choses sensibles.p.36.Canadoises ceintes dessus, & dessous le ventre.p.37.Canadois quasi tous sans barbe, horsmis les bien robustes.p.37.Canadois ne peuuent retenir la memoire d'vne suitte de paroles.p.27.128Canadois mocqueurs des personnes contrefaites.p.37.Canadois n'ont point le corps contrefaict, ny defectueux.p.37.Canadois vestus de peaux conroyées auec le poil, & bigarrées de couleurs.p.39.Canadois paoureux, & grands vanteurs.p.55.Canadois forts, & addroicts à la lutte, & non à autre combat.p.55.Canadois liberaux & recognoissans.p.58.Canadois prattiquët la Polygamie plus pour le proufit, que pour l'incontinence.p.62.Canadois maladifs depuis la hãtise des Frãçois, à cause de leurs excés à manger viandes non accoustumées.p.69.Canadois ne se soucient du lendemain, viuãs du iour à la iournée.p.70.Canadois oincts d'huile de loup marin sentent mal.p.77.Canadois se font Chrestiens, seulement pour marque d'amitié auec les François.p.109.Canadois se plaignent fort qu'on ne les ait aduerty des deuoirs du Christianisme auãt leur baptesme, ausquels ils ne se fussent obligés, s'ils les eussent cogneus.p.111.Canadins baptisés à la poursuitte du sieur de Potrincourt.p.126.Canadois ne peuuẽt exprimer par parole que les choses fort sensibles, & materielles.p.151.Canadins sujects d'Asticou inuitent les Iesuites à prendre logis en leur terre.p.222.Canadins caressent les Anglois, les croyans estre François, & par ignorance les menent à S. Sauueur, où ils pillent & captiuent les François.p.229.130Canadin s'attriste fort, ayant recogneu que par mesgarde il auoit mis les François de Sainct Sauueur entre les mains de l'Anglois.p.231.Canadins portent grande compassion aux François captifs de l'Anglois, & leur offrent toute amitié.p.246.Canadins donnent largement de leur proye aux François de S. Sauueur necessiteux.p.253.Canadins bien recogneus peuuent estre cy apres mieux aidés au salut de leur ame.p.306.Canadins ayans grande confiance aux François, peuuent estre mieux aidez par eux, que par autres en leur conuersion.p.307.Canadins grandement fideles aux François.p.308.Canadins ennemis de l'Anglois, & Holandois.p.309.Canadins affectionnez au Baptesme.p.310.Canadine malade à la mort, guerie par le Catechisme, & vne Croix penduë au col.p.313.Canadois ne portent point de hauts de chausses.p.39.Canadois portent greues, & souliers de peaux d'eslan.p.39.Canadois plantẽt nouuelles cabanes à chaque changement de lieu, & de residence.p.40.Canadois se cabanent en bel aspect, & prés des bonnes eaux.p.41.Canadois se couchent à l'entour du foyer, sur des peaux de loups marins, la teste sur vn sac.p.41.Canadois à chacune des treize lunes annuelles ont nouuelle chasse, ou pesche.p.42.Canadois ne viuent que de chasse, & de pesche.p.42.Canadois meurent de faim quand la chasse, & pesche ne reüssit.p.43.Canadois sont fort incõmodés de pluye, & de nege, quand elle ne gele pas.p.44.132Canadois portent des raquettes au pied sur la nege molle, pour chasser.p.44.Canadois riches en gibier d'eau, non de terre.p.46.Canadois en my-Septembre de la mer vont à la pesche des riuieres.p.47.Canadois ne possedent rien en proprieté auant leur mariage.p.51.Canadois ont des quereles sur le refus des droicts les vns enuers les autres.p.52.Canadin guery par la Croix, & Catechisme.p.315.Canadins hurlent horriblement aupres de leurs malades mourans.p.317.Campseau coste de mer loin de six vingts lieuës de Port Royal.p.139.Cap de la Heue en la coste de l'Acadie.pag.216.Cap de sable.p.255.Cap Breton.p.263.Cap Forchu.p.255.Caribous, moitié asne, moitié cerf, bons à manger.p.43.Castors & Eslans ont leur seconde chasse en Octobre & Nouembre.p.47.Castors se prennent en Feuier & Mars, pour la premiere chasse.p.43.Catechisme exactement practiqué est tres-necessaire aux Canadins à cause de leur façon de viure vagabonde.p.102.103.104.Catechisme & Croix penduë au col d'vne Canadine la guerit de maladie mortelle.p.313.Catechisme guerit vn Canadin malade.p.215.Cauots, esquifs des Canadois, faicts, d'escorce de bouleau, fort legers, capables de toute vne famille, & vtensiles necessaires.p.48.Cauot fort commode pour la pesche, & voiture.p.48.Cauot faict quarante lieuës en vn iour.pag.49.Champlain fonde l'habitation de Kebec.p.121.134Champlain descouure la coste de la riuiere S. Laurens.p.121.Champlain Lieutenant du sieur de Monts.p.121.Champlain allant à Kebec passe à trauers des glaçons de mer enormément gros & affreux.p.139.Charbon de terre en Canada.p.32.Chair boucanée, ou sechée à la fumée, mise en reserue.p.70.Charmes, Chesnes, Hestres, & Peupliers en Canada.p.32.Chasse & pesche sont tout le reuenu des Canadois.p.42.Chasse premiere des Castors en Feurier, & Mars.p.43.Chasse seconde des Castors, & Eslans en Octobre & Nouembre.p.47.Cheuille plantée en terre par l'Autmoin faignant de chasser le Diable.p.82.83.84.Chiens du malade mangés en Tabagie.pag.89.Chinictou est vne Baye en Canada fort belle en prairies.p.27.Chinictou pays de Canada fertile & aggreable.p.204.Chiquebiracine à guise de truffes, dont les Iesuites viuoyent en temps de famine.p.213.Chirurgien Anglois Catholique, charitable enuers les François de S. Sauueur blessez.p.241.Coquilles, & poissons de toute sorte foisonnent en la mer de Canada durant cinq mois.p.45.Coste de la riuiere Sainct Iean en Canada, abondante en vigne sauuage, & noyers.p.31.Coste de S. Sauueur fort aggreable.p.225.Croix penduë au col d'vn Canadin le guerit d'vne longue maladie.p.315.Croix plantée au Cap de la Heue.p.216.Croix plantée au Port S. Sauueur.p.226.Coudriers sont frequents en Canada.p.31.Counibas pays inhabitable à cause du froid.p.21.
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B.Bay of Chinictou in Canada, surrounded by beautiful meadows.p.27French Bay, between Port Royal and the river St. John.p.165Bay of mines, twenty-two leagues from Port Royal.p.203Baye de Genes, thus called by Champlain.p.204Bay of mines eight leagues wide.p.205Baptism too easily administered in Mexico, with notable detriment to those baptised.p.106Baptism administered to the Canadians not yet instructed in the duties of Christianity, and the evils which result therefrom.p.111Baptism of aged persons, not well instructed, deferred with great consideration.p.115Baptism desired by Canadians before dying.p.310Baptism cures a Canadian child sick unto death.p.318Those baptised in Canada without previous instruction, know nothing of Christianity, not even their Baptismal names.p.109Basques have alienated the Excomminquois in Canada from our French.p.33Biencourt and Robin, out of regard for the Calvinists, agree that the Jesuits must not enter their ship.p.134Biencourt by means of the Jesuits sails for Canada, much sooner than he could have done without them.p.138Biencourt suspects that Madame de Guerche-ville wishes to rob him of his rights in Canada.p.197Bretons discovered new France.p.2Bretons often sick in Canada.p.15Winter Cabins of the Canadians; a circle of poles closed at the top and covered with skins, mats, or pieces of bark.p.40,41Cabins of the Canadians always in a beautiful location, and near good water.p.41Summer Cabins of the Canadians long and wide, and covered with mats or bark.p.42Calais. The Governor and Dean of Calais welcome and kindly assist the Jesuits of Canada sent back from England.p.299Calvinists are not satisfied to have the Jesuits go to Canada, but are willing to take all other Ecclesiastics.p.133Canada is only a part of new France, namely, the land along the great river Canadas.p.3, 4Canada, a Province of new France, first discovered by Jaques Cartier, in the year 1524.p.4Canada parallel to France, in the same climate and Polar elevation.p.9Canada colder than our France, and why.p.10Canada subject to Scurvy or land disease.p.14Canada brings sickness to those who are idle.p.16Canada shows vegetation as early in Spring as our France.p.18Canada in the coldest places yields the wheat crop in its season.p.19Canada has no high mountains.p.20Canada, very much intersected by rivers and arms of the sea, is thereby rendered colder.p.23Canada, on account of the continuous forests, is less heated by the Sun, and therefore colder than the open countries.p.24Canada, not being cultivated, is covered with a hard crust, almost impenetrable to the Sun, and therefore much colder.p.24Canada produces the wild grape in many places, which ripens in its season.p.31Canada, in the lands known to the French, has only ten thousand inhabitants.p.73Canada, with the exception of Port Royal, given to Madame de Guercheville.p.190Canada under Authority of the Prince de Soissons.p.330Canada, why the French should cultivate it.p.331Canadians faithful to French against English.p.34Canadians kind to French made prisoners by English.p.35,36Canadians have a good memory for visible and material things.p.36Canadians comprehend and estimate well the things known through the senses.p.36Canadian women wear belts above and below the stomach.p.37Canadians nearly all beardless, except the more robust.p.37Canadians have no memory for a consecutive arrangement of words.p.27Canadians scoffers at ill-shapen people.p.37Canadians' bodies are not ill-shapen or defective.p.37Canadians dressed in skins which have been curried and decorated in various colors.p.39Canadians cowardly and great boasters.p.55Canadians strong and skillful in wrestling, and not in any other kind of combat.p.55Canadians generous and grateful.p.58Canadians practice Polygamy more for profit than for incontinence.p.62Canadians sickly since their intercourse with the French, on account of their excesses in eating food to which they are not accustomed.p.69Canadians not anxious about to-morrow, only living from day to day.p.70Canadians, when they rub themselves with seal oil, have a bad smell.p.77Canadians embrace Christianity only as a sign of friendship with the French.p.109Canadians complain greatly that they were not advised of the duties of Christianity before their baptism, to which they would not have bound themselves if they had known them.p.111Canadians baptized through the instrumentality of sieur de Potrincourt.p.126Canadians can express in words only the more visible and material things.p.151Canadian subjects of Asticou invite the Jesuits to locate in their territory.p.222Canadians embrace the English, believing them to be French, and through ignorance guide them to St. Sauveur, where they plunder and capture the French.p.229Canadians very sorrowful when they recognized that through inadvertence they had delivered the French of Saint Sauveur into the hands of the English.p.231Canadians show great sympathy for the French taken prisoners by the English, and offer them many favors.p.246Canadians give generously of their game to the needy French of St. Sauveur.p.253Canadians, well understood, can afterwards be better assisted in the salvation of their souls.p.306Canadians, having great confidence in the French, can be better aided by them, than by others, in their conversion.p.307Canadians very faithful to the French.p.308Canadians enemies of the English and Dutch.p.309Canadians fond of Baptism.p.310Canadian woman sick unto death, cured by the Catechism and a Cross hung around her neck.p.313Canadians do not wear trousers.p.39Canadians wear leggings and shoes of elk skin.p.39Canadians erect new houses at every change of place and residence.p.40Canadians camp in pleasant localities and near good water.p.41Canadians lie around the fire, upon seal skins, their heads upon bags.p.41Canadians have new game or fish for every one of their thirteen moons.p.42Canadians live only upon game and fish.p.42Canadians die of starvation when hunting and fishing are not successful.p.43Canadians are very greatly inconvenienced by the rain and snow when it does not freeze.p.44Canadians wear snowshoes upon the feet when the snow is soft, for hunting.p.44Canadians rich in marine, not in forest game.p.46Canadians, in the middle of September, come from the sea to fish in the rivers.p.47Canadians possess no property before marriage.p.51Canadians quarrel when some refuse dues to others.p.52Canadian cured by the Cross and Catechism.p.315Canadians howl terribly around their dying friends.p.317Campseau seacoast distant one hundred and twenty leagues from Port Royal.p.139Cap de la Heve on the coast of Acadia.pag.216Cape sable.p.255Cape Breton.p.263Cape Forchu.p.255Caribou, half ass, half deer, good to eat.p.43Chase, the second time for the Beaver and Elk in October and November.p.47Capture of the beaver in the first hunt, in February and March.p.43Catechism exactly attended to is very necessary to the Canadians, on account of their wandering mode of life.p.102,103,104Catechism and Cross, hung from the neck of a Canadian woman, cure her of a mortal illness.p.313Catechism cures a sick Canadian.pag.215Canoes, the skiffs of the Canadians, made of birch-bark, very light, capable of holding an entire family and their necessary utensils.p.48Canoe very convenient for fishing and conveyance.p.48Canoe makes forty leagues in one day.pag.49Champlain establishes the settlement of Kebec.p.121Champlain explores the shores of the river St. Lawrence.p.121Champlain, Lieutenant of sieur de Monts.p.121Champlain, going to Kebec, passes through enormous and frightful masses of ice.p.139Coal in Canada.p.32Smoked meat, or meat dried in smoke, stored away.p.70Elm, Oak, Beech, and Poplar in Canada.p.32Hunting and fishing are the only resources of the Canadians.p.42First hunt for Beavers in February and March.p.43Second hunt for Beavers and Elk in October and November.p.47Stick planted in the ground by the Autmoin, feigning to chase away the Devil.p.82,83,84Dogs of the sick man eaten in the Tabagie.pag.89Chinictou is a Bay in Canada surrounded by beautiful meadows.p.27Chinictou a country of Canada fertile and pleasant.p.204Chiquebi,a root something like truffles, upon which the Jesuits lived in time of famine.p.213English Surgeon, a Catholic, charitable towards the wounded French of St. Sauveur.p.241Shellfish, and fish of all kinds, swarm in the Canadian sea during five months.p.45Banks of the river Saint John in Canada abounding in wild grapes and nuts.p.31Coast of St. Sauveur very agreeable.p.225Cross hung from the neck of a Canadian cures him of a long illness.p.315Cross planted at Cap de la Heve.p.216Cross planted at the Port of St. Sauveur.p.226Hazel trees very abundant in Canada.p.31Counibas country uninhabitable on account of the cold.p.21
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