But it is time to drop my pen, which will not be able this year to answer several letters that a bark which goes down to Tadoussac will bring us after the departure of the ships. It sometimes happens, either from forgetfulness or for some other reason, that they deliver the letters after the fleet has already set sail, so that we cannot send the answers the same year. As to our Frenchmen and our Fathers who are in the country of the Hurons, answers to letters sent from France should not be expected until two years afterwards; indeed, even if letters addressed to them are given to us here [111] to hold for them, after the departure of the Hurons, who come down to Kebec only once a year, the answers will not be carried to France until the end of three years. I have given this information purposely, so as to excuse ourselves to persons who have done us the honor of writing to us, and who do not get their answers the same year, and sometimes do not get them at all, the letters or the replies being lost in so great a lapse of time and so long a journey. I pray God that these may arrive safely, together with all the fleet; they will bear to your Reverence, as a final conclusion, a very humble supplication to remember, at the Altar and in the Oratory, our poor Savages, and all of us who are your children,--especially me, [112] who have more need of it than the others, and who will call myself, with your permission, what I am, MY REVEREND FATHER, You will permit me, if you please, to implore the prayers of all our Fathers and of all our Brothers in your Province,--as, moreover, do all of us,--I who am, _At the Residence of nostre Dame des Anges, near Kebec, in New-France, this 28th of August, 1635._ Your very humble and greatly obliged servant in our Lord, PAUL LE JEUNE. AND Father Charles l'Allemant. Father Jean Brebeuf. Father Jean Daniel. Father Ambroise d'Avost. Father Anne de Noüe. Father Enemond Masse. Father Antoine Richard.[17] Father François Mercier. Father Charles Turgis.[18] Father Charles du Marché.[19] Father Claude Quantin. Father Jacques Buteux. Father Jean de Quen. Father Pierre Pijart. And our Brothers Gilbert Burel, Jean Liegeois,[20] Pierre le Tellier, Pierre Feauté. [113] Relation de ce qui s'est passé avx Hvrons, en l'année 1635. _Enuoyée à Kebec au Pere le Ieune, par le P. Brebeuf._ MON R. PERE, C'est pour vous rendre compte de nostre voyage en ce Pays des Hurons, lequel a esté remply de plus de fatigues, de pertes & de cousts que l'autre, mais aussi qui a esté suiuy & le sera, Dieu aidant, de plus de benedictions du Ciel. [113] Relation of what occurred among the Hurons in the year 1635. _Sent to Kebec to Father le Jeune, Father Brebeuf._ MY REVEREND FATHER,