Then the priest, under the eyes of the people at a distance, while the judges were gaping with their noses thrust down toward the coals, shook some grains from the lump of sulphur upon the coals, which suddenly took fire and filled the curious noses with a stifling odor. When this had been done a second and a third time, the crowd arose in astonishment, placing their hands flat over their mouths, by which gesture they signify great surprise; and believed in the word of God that there is a lower world. [51] Rerum Insigniorum Indiculus. _ALCES consideratio_, 7 _virtus mira ungulæ ejus_, 8 _Angli barbaris gladios et gravidas nitrato pulvere fistulas suppeditant_, 27 _Animarum de natura delirant Canadenses_, 20, 46 _Aves Novæ Franciæ_, 14 _Avis prædatrix_, 15 _Batavi barbaris arma vendunt_, 27 _Canada fluvius_, 5 _Canadensium domus_, 16 _mulierum labores_, 17 _morbi et ægrorum cura_, 18 _funera_, 20 _bella_, 27 _arma_, 28 _crudelitas in captivos_, 29 _indoles_, 33 _corporis cultus_, 37 _cibi_, 42 _convivia_, 44 [52] _Canadensium supellex_, 44 _religio et superstitiones_, 45 _Captivorum crudelis sors_, 29 _Casæ Canadensium_, 16 _cadavera perjanuam nunquam esseruntur_, 20 _Casæ fibrorum_, 10 _Causarus seu Piscis armatus_, 12 _Clypei barbarorum_, 28 _Coquendi ratio in cacabis è cortice confectis_, 42 _Ebrietas ab Europæis discitur_, 44 _Exequiarum ritus_, 20 _Feminis imponitur quidquid laboris est_, 17 _Fibri consideratio_, 9 _Fluvii quid habent singulare_, 6 _Franciæ Novæ descriptio, flumina_, 5 _coelum_, 6 _soli natura_, 7 _feræ_, 7 _Galliæ rex cur magni æstimabatur_, 45 _Hurones diem Mortuorum celebrant_, 25 _Infantium mira mortalitas_, 17 _cur corpora propter viam sepeliunt_, 21 _Infernales ignes esse probat sacerdos_, 48 [53] _Iroquæi bellum cum Montanis singulari certamine finiunt_, 28 _Iroquæorum lacus_, 12 _Kebecum, urbs primaria Novæ Franciæ_, 6 _Magna Bellua, quid_, 7 _Manitoù, genius malorum_, 46 _Missisipus fluvius_, 6 _Montani bellum singulari certamine finiunt_, 28 _Morborum fontes duo_, 18 _Mortuorum festa celebritas apud Hurones_, 25 _Mos Canadensis mortuos suscitandi_, 25 _Naviculæ barbarorum_, 6 _Neutra Natio_, 38 _Numen nullo certo cultu prosequuntur_, 44 _Palumbes absque numero_, 14 _Pisces armatus_, 13 _Patres non pauci Societatis Jesu dire torquentur_, 31 _Religio Canadensium_, 45 _Reticula pedibus substrata ut super nives de ambulent_, 8 _S. Laurentii fluvius_, 5, 6 _Sagamita quid_, 42 [54] _Saltus seu catadupæ in fluviis_, 6 _Sinus Sancti Laurentii_, 14 _Somniorum vanitas_, 46 _Sudando noxios humores ejiciunt_, 19 _Tabacum, natio ejus nominis_, 38 _Trophæus_, 32 _Volucrum insula_, 14 [51] Index of Prominent Topics. [_The page numbers refer to O'Callaghan's Reprint._]