The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
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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
I'appelle aussi miracle de voir que les pauvres peuples de delà ont
conceu telle opinion de la Religion Chrétienne, que si-tost qu'ilz
sont malades ilz demãdent estre baptizez, voire encore qu'ilz soient
sains, ils y vont avec vne grande Foy, & disent qu'ilz veulent estre
semblables à nous recognoissans fort bien leur defaut en cela.
Membertou grand Sagamos exhorte vn chacũ des Sauvages à se faire
Chretiens. Et tesmoignẽt tous que depuis qu'ils ont receu le baptéme
ils ne craignent plus rien, ilz vont hardiment de nuict, le diable ne
les tourmente plus.
I call it also a miracle that these poor people have conceived such
an opinion of the Christian Religion, that as soon as they are
sick they ask to be baptized; and, even when they are well, they
approach it with great Faith, saying they wish to be like us, fully
recognizing their own shortcomings. Membertou, the great Sagamore,
exhorts every one of the Savages to become Christians. All bear
witness that since they have been baptized they are afraid of
nothing, and go out boldly at night, the devil no longer tormenting
them.
Quand le Sieur de Sainct Iust arriva à Campseau, les Sauvages non
baptizez s'enfuioient de peur. Mais les baptizés en nombre d'environ
cinquante s'approcherent hardiment disans, Nous sommes tes freres
Chretiens comme toy, & tu nous aymes. C'est pourquoy nous ne fuyons
point, & n'avons point de peur: Et porterent ledit Sieur sur leurs bras
& épaules jusques en leurs cabannes.
When Sieur de Sainct Just arrived at Campseau, the Savages who had
not been baptized ran away in fear. But those who were baptized,
about fifty in number, approached boldly, saying, "We are thy
brothers, Christians as thou art, and thou lovest us. Hence we fly
not away and are not afraid:" and they carried the Sieur upon their
arms and shoulders to their wigwams.
Sur la fin du Printemps les enfans de Membertou estans allés à la
chasse, en laquelle ilz firent long seiour, avint que ledit Membertou
fut pressé de necessité de vivres, & en cette disette [38] il se
souvint de ce qu'il avoit autrefois oui dire à noz gẽs que Dieu
qui nourrit les oiseaux du ciel, & les bétes de la terre, ne delaisse
iamais ceux qui ont esperance en lui, selon la parolle de nôtre Sauveur.
Towards the end of Spring, when Membertou's children had gone
hunting, where they remained a long time, it happened that
Membertou was sorely pressed for food; and in this time of need
[38] he remembered that he had formerly heard our people say that
God, who feeds the birds of the air and the beasts of the fields,
never abandons those who have hope in him, according to the words
of our Savior.
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