The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
Le retardement susdit est cause que lesditz navires & autres estãs
arrivés devant ledit sieur de S^{ct.} Iust; ils ont enlevé tout ce
qui estoit de bon au païs pour le commerce des Castors & autres
pelleteries, lesquelles fussent venuës és marins du Sieur de
Poutrincourt si son fils fust retourné par-dela au temps qui lui avoit
esté enioint. Et davantage on en eust sauvé pour plus de six mille
escus que les Sauvages ont mangées durant l'hiver, lesquelles ilz
fussent venus troquer audit Port Royal s'il y eust eu les choses qui
leur sont necessaires. Vne faute aussi fut cõmise avant le partement
de Dieppe par l'infidelité du Contre-maistre de navire, lequel ayant
charge d'enruner (c'est à dire mettre dedans) le blé, le détournoit à
son profit. [36] Ce qui ayda à la disette que noz François ont par-dela
soufferte. Et neantmoins Dieu les a tellement sustentés, qu'il n'y a eu
aucun malade: voire ceux qui en sont de retour se plaisent à cela, &
n'y en a pas vn qui ne soit en volonté d'y retourner.
In the delay previously mentioned may be found the reason why
these ships and others, having arrived before sieur de Sainct
Just, took away all that was valuable in the country as regards
the Beaver and other fur trade, which would have reverted to Sieur
de Poutrincourt's sailors if his son had returned from over the
sea at the time stipulated. And besides, more than six thousand
escus [écus] worth of peltries would have been saved which the
Savages devoured during the winter, and which they would have come
to Port Royal to exchange, had they found there what they needed.
A wicked act was also committed before the ship's departure from
Dieppe, by the Overseer of the boat, who, being charged to load
[_enruner_] the wheat, appropriated it to his own profit, [36]
which contributed to the scarcity which our countrymen suffered
over there. And yet God so sustained them, that no one has been
sick; even those who have come back, are fortunate in that respect,
and there is not one of them who would not like to return to that
country.
EFFECTS DE LA GRACE DE DIEU EN LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE.
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