_ELK: description_, 7 _wonderful efficacy of its hoof_, 8 _The English supply swords, guns and ammunition to the savages_, 27 _Absurd ideas of Canadians concerning the soul_, 20, 46 _Birds of New France_, 14 _A bird of prey_, 15 _The Dutch sell arms to the savages_, 27 _The river Canada_, 5 _Homes of the Canadians_, 16 _tasks of the women_, 17 _diseases and treatment of the sick_, 18 _funerals_, 20 _wars_, 27 _weapons_, 28 _cruelty to prisoners_, 29 _character_, 33 _care of the body_, 37 _food_, 42 _feasts_, 44 [52] _Implements of the Canadians_, 44 _religion and superstitions_, 45 _Cruel fate of prisoners_, 29 _Houses of the Canadians_, 16 _corpses are never carried out through the door_, 20 _Houses of the beavers_, 10 _The Causar or armored Fish_, 12 _Shields of the savages_, 28 _Manner of cooking in vessels made from bark_, 42 _Drunkenness is learned from the Europeans_, 44 _Rites of sepulture_, 20 _Whatever work there is, is placed upon the women_, 17 _Description of the beaver_, 9 _Peculiarities of the rivers_, 6 _Description of New France, rivers_, 5 _climate_, 6 _nature of the soil_, 7 _wild animals_, 7 _Why the king of France was greatly respected_, 45 _The Hurons celebrate the day of the Dead_, 25 _Remarkable mortality among infants_, 17 _why they bury the bodies near the road_, 21 _A priest proves that there is hell fire_, 48 [53] _The Iroquois conclude a war with the Montagnais by single combat_, 28 _Lake of the Iroquois_, 12 _Kebec, the chief city of New France_, 6 _The Great Beast, what it is_, 7 _Manitou, the spirit of evil_, 46 _Mississippi river_, 6 _The Montaignais conclude a war by single combat_, 28 _Two sources of disease_, 18 _Festival of the Dead among the Hurons_, 25 _Canadian manner of honoring the dead_, 25 _Boats of the savages_, 6 _The Neutral Nation_, 38 _They revere a deity with no fixed form of worship_, 44 _Innumerable pigeons_, 14 _The armored fish_, 13 _Fathers of the Society of Jesus are cruelly tortured_, 31 _Religion of the Canadians_, 45 _Network bound under the feet, to walk over the snow_, 8 _St. Lawrence river_, 5, 6 _Sagamita, what it is_, 42 [54] _Water-falls, or cataracts, in the rivers_, 6 _Gulf of St. Lawrence_, 14 _Ignorant belief in dreams_, 46 _They expel noxious humors by sweating_, 19 _Tobacco, the nation of that name_, 38 _The trophy_, 32 _Isle of Birds_, 14 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA: VOL. I I Our text of Lescarbot's _La Conversion_ follows, to the close of p. 44 (original pagination), the copy at Lenox Library: pp. 45, 46, the "Regitre de Bapteme," follow the copy at John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R. I., as the Lenox copy does not have these two pages.