The Works of Francis Parkman: The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century

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Little, Brown, 1897
 

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Sida 78 - and Jouskeha. According to some Algonquin traditions, heaven was a scene of endless festivity, the ghosts dancing to the sound of the rattle and 1 The practice of burying treasures with the dead is not peculiar to the North American aborigines. Thus, the London Times of Oct.
Sida 40 - than whom no one knew the Hurons better, is very emphatic in praise of their harmony and social spirit. Speaking of one of the four nations of which the Hurons were composed, he says: " Us ont vne douceur et vne affabilite" quasi incroyable pour des Sauuages; ils ne se picquent pas aisement. . . . Us se
Sida 83 - to a local or other spirit. The food was first offered in a loud voice to the being to be propitiated, after which the guests proceeded to devour it for him. This unique method of sacrifice was practised at war-feasts and similar solemnities. For an excellent account of Indian religious feasts, see
Sida 206 - Of these they now had at Ossossan^ about sixty, — a large, though evidently not a very solid nucleus for the Huron church, — and they labored hard and anxiously to confirm and multiply them. Of a Sunday morning in win1 Du Peron in Carayon, 173. 2 "La chapelle eat faite d'une charpente bien jolie,
Sida 37 - i. 271. Their true name is Hodenosaunee, or " People of the Long House," because their confederacy of five distinct nations, ranged in a line along central New York, was likened to one of the long bark houses already described, with five fires and five families. The name Agonnonsionni, or
Sida 92 - 1633, 1634, 1635 (Le Jeune), but chiefly from a long letter of the Father Superior to the Provincial of the Jesuits at Paris, containing a curiously minute report of the state of the mission. It was sent from Quebec by the returning ships in the summer of 1634, and will be found in Carayon, Premiere Mission des
Sida 160 - vne seule âme, ie seray trop heureux, et ma vie très bien employée." " Ma consolation parmy les Hurons, c'est que tous les iours ie me confesse, et puis ie dis la Messe, comme si ie deuois prendre le Viatique et mourir ce iour là, et ie ne crois pas qu'on puisse mieux
Sida 24 - ran high; and Bre*beuf relates that once in midwinter, with the snow nearly three feet deep, the men of his village returned from a gambling visit bereft of their leggins, and barefoot, yet in excellent humor. 2 Ludicrous as it may appear, these games
Sida 120 - Thus prone to believe in the immediate presence of the nether powers, Le Jeune watched the sorcerer with an eye prepared to discover in his conjurations the signs of a genuine diabolic agency. His observations, however, led him to a different result; and i
Sida 94 - might tire the wings of thought itself, — a scene repellent and appalling, darkened with omens of peril and woe. They were an advance-guard of the great army of Loyola, strong in a discipline that controlled not alone the body and the will,

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