The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 7: Quebec, Hurons, Cape Breton, 1634-1635
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 7: Quebec, Hurons, Cape Breton, 1634-1635
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
On the ninth of January, a Savage, who came to visit us, said that
a man and a woman of the place from which he had come had starved
to death, and that several others were on the verge of starvation.
The poor man fasted the day of his arrival as well as we, for there
was nothing to eat; and we had to wait until ten o'clock of the
next night, when my host brought in two Beavers, which were a great
blessing to us.
[295] Le iour suiuant nos gens tuerent le second Orignac, ce qui causa
par tout vne grande ioye, il est vray qu'elle fut vn peu troublée par
l'arriuée d'vn Sauuage, & de deux ou trois femmes, & d'vn enfant que
la famine alloit bien tost égorger, s'ils n'eussent fait rencontre de
nostre cabane, ils estoient fort hideux, l'homme particulierement plus
que les femmes, dont l'vne auoit accouché depuis dix iours dans les
neiges, & dans la famine, ayant passé plusieurs iours sans manger.
[295] On the following day our people killed the second Moose, at
which there was general rejoicing. True, it was a little marred by
the arrival of a Savage, and of two or three women and a child,
whom famine would have slaughtered, if they had not happened to
come to our cabin. They looked most hideous, the man especially,
more so than the women, one of whom had given birth to a child ten
days before in the snow, and, in the famine, had passed several
days without eating.
Mais admirez s'il vous plaist l'amour que ces barbares se portent les
vns aux autres, on ne demanda point a ces nouueaux hostes pourquoy ils
venoient sur nos limites, s'ils ne sçauoient pas bien que nous estions
en aussi grand danger qu'eux, qu'ils nous venoient oster le morceau
de la bouche; ains au contraire on les receut, non de paroles, mais
d'effect, sans courtoisie exterieure, car les Sauuages n'en ont point,
mais non pas sans charité: on leur ietta de grandes pieces de l'Orignac
nouuellement tué, [296] sans leur dire autre parole, _mitisou_k_ou_
mangez, aussi leur eust on fait grand tort d'appliquer pour lors leurs
bouches à autre vsage: pendant qu'ils mangeoient on prepara vn festin,
auquel ils furent traictez à grand plat, ie vous en réponds: car la
portion qu'on leur donna à chacun, sortoit beaucoup hors de leurs
_ouragans_ qui sont tres capables.
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