_Explanation, or heads of this Letter_ 6 _Rivers of New France_ 9, 10 _Women among the Savages_ 16 _fill the place of slaves_ 17 _French bay, its position,_ [42] 10 _French, what country is called by them New France_ 8 _do not settle in the country of New France_ 19 _France, Savages brought there and baptised_ 23 _French, the Irocois and Armouchiquois little known to_ 11 _French, their number in Acadia_ 25 _Geographers, old, full of errors_ 7 _Guercheville, Marchioness de, buys a ship for the Fathers of the Society_ 21 _Gulf of St. Lawrence_ 9 _Heretics refuse to receive the Jesuits into their ship_ 20 _Henry, King, gives the Society permission to labor in New France_ 19 _his death_ 20 _Infants of the Savages baptised_ 27 _Island of Præsentis [Plaisance], Newfoundland is called by the Indians_ 9 _Islands are numerous in New France_ 12 _Irocois located at sources of great river of Canada_ 9 _wage perpetual war with the Montagnais and Algonquins_ 9 _a tribe of New France_ 11 _Isthmus, gulf of St. Lawrence and French bay form_ 10 _Kinibequi river_, vide _Rimbequi_. _Latitude of New France_ 8 _Leagues, the Isthmus measures five hundred_ 10 _Language of the natives, the Fathers ignorant of it_ 27 _Massé, Father Ennemond, sent to Acadia_ iii _Médicis, Marie de, queen regent, extends her favor to the Society of Jesus_ 20 _orders the Fathers to be received into the ship_ [43] 21 _Membertou, Henry, chief of the Soriquois, is baptized with his family_ 24 _his son being sick, is carried to the house of Monsieur de Potrincourt_ 28, 29 _the Chief dies_ 30 _is buried with great pomp_ 32 _Cod-fish, Newfoundland celebrated for the taking of_ 9