The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 3: Acadia, 1611-1616
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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
leave him or when others get them away from him; then as among us,
also among them, there are reproaches and accusations, as that such
a one is only a half Sagamore, is newly hatched like a three-days'
chicken, that his crest is only beginning to appear; that he is
only a Sagamochin, that is, a Baby Sagamore, a little dwarf. And
thus you may know that ambition reigns beneath the thatched roofs,
as well as under the gilded, and our ears need not be pulled much
to learn these lessons.
[53] Ces Sagamies se partagent la region, & sont quasi distribuees par
bayes, ou riuieres. Par exemple, en la riuiere de Pentegoet vn Sagamo;
vn autre à celle de S. Croix; vn autre à celle de S. Iean, &c. Quand
ils se visitent c'est au recepuant de bien-veigner, & faire tabagie
à ses hostes, autant de iours qu'il peut; les hostes luy font des
presents: mais c'est à la charge que le visité reciproque, quand ce
vient au départ, si le visitant est Sagamo, autrement non.
[53] These Sagamies divide up the country and are nearly always
arranged according to bays or rivers. For example, for the
Pentegoet river there is one Sagamore; another for the Ste. Croix;
another for the St. John, etc. When they visit each other it is the
duty of the host to welcome and to banquet his guests, as many days
as he can, the guests making him some presents; but it is with the
expectation that the host will reciprocate, when the guest comes to
depart, if the guest is a Sagamore, otherwise not.
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