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
finally, between Florida and the great Sacqué River, the Iroquois
inhabit enormous tracts of both level and mountainous country.
Many of the remaining tribes of New France, especially those of
the North, across the great Sacqué River, our French countrymen
know only from hearsay. Among those whom they know, however, they
have secured as friends, and almost as allies, the Souriquois,
Eteminquis, Montagnais, Almochiquois, Algomequois, and Ochasteguis.
The Iroquois, who are deadly enemies of these tribes, prove
hostile to the French also, mainly because the latter have waged
war against them, in company with their enemies. Certain of these
tribes--the Almochiquois, Iroquois, and Ochasteguis--practice
agriculture, though unskillfully, and plant Indian corn and the
Brazilian bean.[61]
PROMONTORIA celebria Franciam Nouam ineuntibus Meridiano littore
occurrunt, Britonicum, ad ipsa ostia magni amnis, hoc est Sancti
Laurentij; ab hoc deinde Heuæum, Arietinum, Sabulosum, Bifidum,
Sanctus Ludouicus, Album, Sancta Helena. Eamdem oram à Promontorio
Britonico legentibus obuij fiunt portus, Campsæus, Sesambræus, Regius,
Pulcher. Mediterranea verò per Sacquéum amnem, & Canadiæ fines subire
volentibus, præteruehenda sunt, Britonicum, ad ostia eiusdem fluuij;
Sanctus-Laurentius; Episcopium, [568] Chatæum, & alia nonnulla
promontoria: Tadoussacus denique portus ad Saguenaij fluminis ostia
Sacqéum ineuntis.
NUMEROUS headlands meet those who approach New France by the
Southern coast: Breton, at the very mouth of the great river St.
Lawrence; next in order, La Hève, Mouton, Sable, Fourchu, St.
Louis, Blanc, Ste. Hélène.[62] Those who coast along the same shore
from Cape Breton meet the harbors called Campseau, Sesambre, Port
Royal, and Beaubassin.[63] But those who wish to journey inland,
beyond the borders of Canada, by way of the Sacqué river, must pass
Cape Breton, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence; Cap de l'Evêque,
[568] Cap Chat,[64] and some other headlands,--finally reaching
Tadoussac bay, at the mouth of the Saguenay river, where it enters
the Sacqué.
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