The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 6: Quebec, 1633-1634
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The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 6: Quebec, 1633-1634
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
On dira que le Capitaine de la nation de ce meurtrier se deburoit
saisir de ceux qui ont mauuaise volonté contre les François. il est
vray, mais i'ay desia remarqué cy dessus que ces [202] Sauuages
n'ont aucune police, & que leur Capitaine n'a point cette authorité.
Ce qu'il peut faire, c'est de prier ces meschans de se diuertir de
leurs desseins, voire mesme il est arriué autrefois que les Sauuages
craignans plus les Europeans qu'ils ne les craignent maintenant, si
quelqu'vn de leurs hommes auoit quelque volonté de tuer vn François,
soit qu'il eut songé qu'il le debuoit faire, ou autrement, les autres
le flattoyent, & luy faisoyent des presens de peur qu'il n'executast
son mauuais dessein, & qu'il ne perdist par ce moyen tout le païs.
Maintenant c'est beaucoup qu'ils aduertissent les François qu'ils se
tiennent sur leurs gardes, comme ils ont fait n'a pas long temps,
disans qu'il y auoit quelques ieunes hommes qui espioient dans les
bois s'ils trouueroient quelque François à l'escart pour l'assommer,
& ainsi on [203] n'est point en asseurance parmy ces peuples; disons
neantmoins, _Qui habitat in adiutorio Altissimi, in protectione Dei
cœli commorabitur._
It will be said that the Captain of the tribe of the murderer ought
to have seized all those who had wicked designs against the French.
It is true; but I have already remarked above that these [202]
Savages have no system of government, and that their Captain has
no such authority. What he can do, is to ask these wicked people
to give up their designs. Indeed, it has happened before, when
the Savages feared the Europeans more than they do now, if one of
their men wanted to kill a Frenchman, either having dreamed that
he was to do it, or from other cause, the others flattered him
and made him presents, fearing that he would carry out his wicked
intentions, and in this way they might lose the whole country. Now
it is a great deal if they warn the French to be on their guard,
as they did not long ago, saying that there were some young men who
were prowling about in the woods to kill any Frenchman that they
might find by himself; and thus we [203] are not safe among these
people. Let us say, however: _Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi,
in protectione Dei cœli commorabitur._
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