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
_Tuguriola fœminæ ædificant_ 17
_quomodo ædificantur_ 18
_Venefici apud Barbaros_ 14
_potestas eorum_ 15
_Vultus Barbarorum_ 13
An index of matters, persons and places now for the first time added
to this Letter
[_Figures refer to original pagination.--Ed._]
ACADIA, _two priests of the Society are sent thither_ iii
_and arrive there_ 26
_Algonquins wage perpetual war with the Irocois_ 9
_a tribe of New France_ 11
_and the Montagnais together cannot much exceed a thousand in
number_ 13
_Cannibals, the Excomminiqui and Armouchiquois are said to be_ 9, 14
_Aquitaine, a Priest departs for New France, summoned from_ 20
_Armouchiquois occupy the region from the Kinibequi river to the
fortieth parallel_ 11
_are said to be Cannibals_ 14
_Autmoins, or medicine-men, the Savages consult_ 14
_Bay of Fundy_, vide _French Bay_.
_Baptism is accepted by the Savages as a sign of confederation with
the French_ 24
_Savages, they have neither laws nor magistrates_ [40] 13
_Savages, how they live_ 13
_wage war as a whole people_ 14
_have neither temples nor sacred edifices_ 15
_bury the name and memory of the dead with their bodies_ 16
_worship the Evil Spirit_ 16
_have a slight notion of God_ 16
_some brought to France and baptised there_ 23
_a hundred are baptized in New France_ 24
_receive baptism as a sign of confederation with the French_ 24
_call the French Normans_ 25
_sacrifice dogs when one of their people is about to die_ 28
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