The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 3: Acadia, 1611-1616
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 3: Acadia, 1611-1616
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
Nous arriuasmes à Kinibequi sur la fin d'Octobre. Kinibequi est vne
riuiere proche des Armouchiquoys à quarante trois degrez, & deux tiers
d'eleuation, & au Suroüest de Port Royal, à soixante dix lieües, ou
enuiron. Elle a deux emboucheures bien grandes, distantes l'vne de
l'autre au moins deux lieües, elle a aussi plusieurs bras, & Isles,
qui la decoupent. Au reste, belle & grande riuiere, mais nous n'y
vismes point de bonnes terres, non plus qu'à la riuiere S. Iean. On dit
toutesfois qu'en haut, loin de la mer, elles y sont fort belles, & le
sejour aggreable, & que les peuples y labourent. Nous ne montasmes pas
plus auant de trois lieües, nous tournoyames par tant de vireuoltes, &
sautames tant de precipices, [177] que grand miracle de Dieu fut que
ne perismes plusieurs fois. Aucuns de nos gens s'escrierent par deux
diuerses fois, que nous estions perdus; mais ils crierent auant le
temps; Nostre Seigneur en soit beny. Les Sauuages nous emmielloyent de
l'esperance d'auoir du bled; puis ils changerent la promesse du bled en
trocque de castors.
We arrived at Kinibequi[41] towards the end of October. Kinibequi
is a river near the Armouchiquois, in latitude forty-three and
two-thirds degrees, and Southwest of Port Royal about seventy
leagues or thereabouts. It has two quite large mouths, one distant
from the other at least two leagues; it is also cut up by numerous
arms and branches. Besides, it is a great and beautiful river; but
we did not see good soil there any more than at the St. John river.
They say, however, that farther up, away from the sea, the country
is very fine and life there agreeable, and that the people till
the soil. We did not go farther up than three leagues; we whirled
about through so many eddies, and shot over so many precipices,
[177] that several times it was a great miracle of God that we did
not perish. Some of our crew cried out at two different times that
we were lost: but they cried too soon, blessed be Our Lord. The
Savages cajoled us with the hope of getting corn; then they changed
their promise of corn to that of trade in beaver skins.
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