trouuoit desia mal, bien-tost apres son impieté il tomba en phrenesie & mourut insensé. Nous l'auions assez bien instruit, mais les respects humains qui regnent puissamment [44] parmy ces peuples, l'ont empesché de professer la Foy. Il nous a dit plusieurs fois, Ie croy bien que tout ce que vous dites est veritable, mais si ie vous obeï, quãd ie me trouueray aux festins de mes Compatriotes, tout le monde se mocquera de moy, Fais sorte, me disoit-il qu'_Outaouau_ (c'est l'vn des grands discoureurs d'entre les Sauuages) reçoiue la Foy quand il viendra icy, & pour lors ie ne feray plus aucune difficulté de vous croire. _Outaouau_ l'a trouué mort & enterré à son retour. On the eighteenth of the same month of February, Father Buteux and I received among the number of Christians, a good Savage woman, who was solemnly baptized in our Chapel of the Conception at the three Rivers. She was called _Ouetata Samakheou_, and we gave her the name of Anne. When the Savages went away, they left her near our Settlement, very sick and lying upon the hard ground; [37] others arriving, we had her placed in their Cabin; and when these moved away, after a short sojourn, we had her placed in another, the only one remaining; as the people of this Cabin wished to follow the others, we begged them to leave a few rolls of their bark to make a miserable hut for this poor creature; but they turned a deaf ear. Now as we could not have this woman taken into the fort, where there were only men, and as on the other hand we did not wish to see her die before our eyes a victim to the cold, having nothing with which to make her a house, we begged our French people to intimidate these Barbarians, who were so cruel towards their own people. So some of them came at once, pistol in hand, and took some of the bark by force, telling them that this [38] woman would soon either die or recover, and they would get back what they had loaned. They were very angry; but nevertheless, as this violence was reasonable, one of them, to atone for their cruelty, returned from the woods where he had gone to camp, and himself put up a little cabin for her, where every day we carried her food and then instructed her. Imagine, if you please, how great is the necessity for a Hospital here, and how much fruit it could produce. Three things consoled me greatly in expounding to her the Articles of our belief; the 1st was, that, wishing to make her perform some act of contrition for her sins, in order to prepare her for baptism, I called up the names of several offenses, threatening her with the fires of hell if, having committed these crimes, she were not washed in the waters of the Sacrament; [39] this poor, frightened, sick woman began to name her offenses aloud, saying, "I have not committed those sins that thou sayest, but I have these," accusing