The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 4: Acadia and Quebec, 1616-1629
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 4: Acadia and Quebec, 1616-1629
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
_Canadians have a good memory for visible and material things._
_p._ 36
_Canadians comprehend and estimate well the things known through
the senses._ _p._ 36
_Canadian women wear belts above and below the stomach._ _p._ 37
_Canadians nearly all beardless, except the more robust._ _p._ 37
_Canadians have no memory for a consecutive arrangement of words._
_p._ 27
_Canadians scoffers at ill-shapen people._ _p._ 37
_Canadians' bodies are not ill-shapen or defective._ _p._ 37
_Canadians dressed in skins which have been curried and decorated
in various colors._ _p._ 39
_Canadians cowardly and great boasters._ _p._ 55
_Canadians strong and skillful in wrestling, and not in any other
kind of combat._ _p._ 55
_Canadians generous and grateful._ _p._ 58
_Canadians practice Polygamy more for profit than for
incontinence._ _p._ 62
_Canadians sickly since their intercourse with the French, on
account of their excesses in eating food to which they are not
accustomed._ _p._ 69
_Canadians not anxious about to-morrow, only living from day to
day._ _p._ 70
_Canadians, when they rub themselves with seal oil, have a bad
smell._ _p._ 77
_Canadians embrace Christianity only as a sign of friendship with
the French._ _p._ 109
_Canadians complain greatly that they were not advised of the
duties of Christianity before their baptism, to which they would
not have bound themselves if they had known them._ _p._ 111
_Canadians baptized through the instrumentality of sieur de
Potrincourt._ _p._ 126
_Canadians can express in words only the more visible and material
things._ _p._ 151
_Canadian subjects of Asticou invite the Jesuits to locate in their
territory._ _p._ 222
_Canadians embrace the English, believing them to be French, and
through ignorance guide them to St. Sauveur, where they plunder and
capture the French._ _p._ 229
_Canadians very sorrowful when they recognized that through
inadvertence they had delivered the French of Saint Sauveur into
the hands of the English._ _p._ 231
_Canadians show great sympathy for the French taken prisoners by
the English, and offer them many favors._ _p._ 246
_Canadians give generously of their game to the needy French of St.
Sauveur._ _p._ 253
_Canadians, well understood, can afterwards be better assisted in
the salvation of their souls._ _p._ 306
_Canadians, having great confidence in the French, can be better
aided by them, than by others, in their conversion._ _p._ 307
_Canadians very faithful to the French._ _p._ 308
_Canadians enemies of the English and Dutch._ _p._ 309
_Canadians fond of Baptism._ _p._ 310
_Canadian woman sick unto death, cured by the Catechism and a Cross
hung around her neck._ _p._ 313
_Canadians do not wear trousers._ _p._ 39
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