The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 7: Quebec, Hurons, Cape Breton, 1634-1635 — John Shaqi
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 7: Quebec, Hurons, Cape Breton, 1634-1635
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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
The next day I wanted to throw the barrel, with what was left of
the wine, into the river, as I had told them I would do, [218] in
case any one abused it; but my host, seizing me around the waist,
cried out, _eca toute, eca toute_, "Do not do that, do not do
that. Dost thou not see that _Petrichtich_" (it is thus they call
the Renegade in derision) "does not know anything, that he is a
dog? I promise thee that we will never touch the barrel unless
thou art present." I yielded, and made up my mind to distribute it
liberally, in order to free myself of the fear that a little wine
might make us drink a great deal of water; for, if they were to get
drunk while we were sailing, we would be lost.
Nous voulions sortir le matin de ceste Isle; mais la marée se retirant,
plustost que nous ne pensions, nostre Chalouppe s'échoüa: si bien qu'il
fallut attendre la marée du soir, en laquelle nous nous embarquasmes, &
voguans à la faueur de la Lune aussi bien que du vent, nous abordasmes
vne autre Isle nommée _Ca ouapascounagate_. Comme nous arriuasmes sur
la minuict, nos gens ne prirent pas la peine de nous bastir vne maison,
si bien que nous couchasmes au mesme lict, & logeasmes à la mesme
enseigne que la nuict precedente, [219] abriez des arbres & du ciel.
We intended leaving this Island in the morning; but the tide fell
sooner than we expected, and stranded our Boat. Hence we had to
wait for the evening tide, upon which we embarked, and sailed away
by the aid of the Moon as well as of the wind. We reached another
Island, called _Ca ouapascounagate_. As we arrived about midnight,
our people did not take the trouble to make a house; and we slept
in the same bed and lodged at the same sign as the night before,
[219] under the shelter of the trees and sky.
Le lendemain nous quittasmes ceste Isle pour entrer dans vne autre
appellée _Ca chibariouachcate_, nous la pourrions nommer l'Isle aux
Oyes blanches, car i'y en vis plus de mille en vne bande.
The next day we left this Island to go to another one, called _Ca
chibariouachcate_; we might have called it the Island of the white
Geese, for I saw there more than a thousand of them in one flock.
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