The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 ; the Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts, with English Translations and Notes, Volume 36

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Reuben Gold Thwaites
Burrows Bros. Company, 1899
 

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Page 229 - Ter virgis caesus sum, semel lapidatus ю sum, ter naufragium feci, nocte et die in profundo maris fui: in itineribus saepe, periculis fluminum, periculis latronum, periculis ex genere, periculis ex gentibus, periculis in civitate, periculis in solitudine, periculis in mari, periculis in falsis fratribus...
Page 79 - It is chiefly for this reason that our Most Illustrious Governor of Kebec commanded me to offer you in his name the most ample Commercial advantages, and considerable compensation for the expenses of the war, in order to obtain from new England some Auxiliary troops for the defense of the Christian Cannadians...
Page 91 - Master heliot, who was teaching some savages, received me at his house, because night was overtaking me; he treated me with respect and kindness, and begged me to spend the winter with him.
Page 91 - I left boston on the twenty- first of that month, December, for plimouth, where I arrived on the morrow, with my [blank space] who lodged me with one of the five farmers of Koussinoc, named padis. The governor of the place, named John Brentford, received me with courtesy, and appointed me an audience for the next day; and he invited me to a dinner of fish, which he prepared on my account, knowing that it was Friday. I found considerable favor in this settlement, for the farmers — and among others...
Page 177 - The number of captives [16] was exceedingly large, — especially of young women, whom they reserve, in order to keep up the population of their own villages. This loss was very great, and entailed the complete ruin and desolation of the Neutral nation ; the inhabitants of their other villages, which were more distant from the enemy, took fright ; abandoned their houses, their property, and their country; and condemned themselves to voluntary exile, to escape still further from the fury and cruelty...
Page 62 - Faifons défenfes à tous Libraires, Imprimeurs & autres perfonnes de quelque qualité & condition qu'elles foient d'en introduire d'impreffion étrangère dans aucun lieu de notre obéiflance.
Page 83 - Narrative of the Journey made in behalf of the Mission of the Abnaquiois, and of information obtained in New England, and of the disposition of the Magistrates of that Commonwealth in regard to aid against the Iroquois.
Page 155 - RELATION OF WHAT OCCURRED MOST REMARKABLE in the Missions of the Fathers of the Society of JESUS, IN NEW FRANCE, IN THE YEARS i6co AND i6ci.
Page 103 - Reflection Upon the Hope Inspired by the Savages It is certain that all the Nations of Savages which are in New England hate the Irocquois, and fear lest, after the Hurons and the Algonquains, he will exterminate them. Indeed, he has broken the heads of many of their men, finding them hunting Beaver, without making any satisfaction. Moreover, it is certain that the Sokouckiois have been closely allied to the Algonquains, and are very glad to deliver themselves from the annual tribute of porcelain...
Page 177 - The number of captives was exceedingly large, — especially of young women, whom they reserve, in order to keep up the population of their own villages. This loss was very great, and entailed the complete ruin and desolation of the Neutral nation; the inhabitants of their other villages, which were more distant from the enemy, took fright; abandoned their houses, their property, and their country; and condemned themselves to voluntary exile, to escape still further from the fury and cruelty of the...

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