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
Le iour d'apres nous la voulions quitter, mais nous fusmes contraints
pour le mauuais temps de relascher au bout de ceste mesme Isle, elle
est deserte comme tout le pays, c'est à dire qu'elle n'a des habitans
qu'en passant, ce peuple n'ayant point de demeure assurée: elle est
bordée de rochers si gros, si hauts, & si entrecouppez & peuplée
neantmoins de Cedres & de Pins si proprement, qu'vn Peintre tiendroit
à faueur d'en auoir la veüe pour tirer l'idée d'vn desert affreux pour
ses precipices, & tres agreable pour la varieté de quantité d'arbres
qu'on diroit auoir esté plantez par la main de l'art plustost que de la
Nature. Comme elle est entre-taillée de bayes pleines de vases, il s'y
retire si grande quantité de gibier & de plusieurs especes que ie n'ay
point veu en France, qu'il le faut quasi voir pour le croire.
The following day we tried to leave, but the bad weather compelled
us to land again at the end of this same Island. It is a solitude,
like all the country; that is, it has only temporary inhabitants,
for these people have no fixed habitation. It is bordered by rocks
so massive, so high, and so craggy, and is withal covered so
picturesquely with Cedars and Pines, that a Painter would consider
himself favored to view it, in order to derive therefrom an idea
of a desert frightful in its precipices and very pleasing in the
variety and number of its trees, which one might say had been
planted by the hand of art rather than of Nature. As it is indented
by bays full of mud, there hides here such a quantity and variety
of game, some of which I have never seen in France, that it must be
seen in order to be believed.
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