CHAPTER VI. The Monastery consumed.--Charity of the Hospital Sisters.--Sympathy of the Hurons.--Serenity of the Venerable Mother.--Lodgings in Madame de la Peltrie's House.--Poverty.--Monastery Rebuilt.--A Pretty Picture.-- Removal to the New Monastery. CHAPTER VII. Early Life of Mother St. Joseph.--Her zeal for the Indians.--Virtues.-- Last Illness.--Happy Death.--Apparitions after Death. CHAPTER VIII. The Seminary Re-opened.--The good work partially checked.--Geneviève and Catherine.--Appointment of Bishop Laval.--Threatened Invasion of the Iroquois.--Heroism of Daulac and his Companions. CHAPTER IX. Trade in Intoxicating Liquors.--Awful Manifestation of Divine Anger.-- Repentance.--Prosperity.--The Marquis of Tracy Viceroy.--Expedition against the Iroquois.--Advancement of the Colony. CHAPTER X. New Sisters from France.--Illness of Mother of the Incarnation.--She is Re-elected Superior.--Lingers for Eight Years.--Illness and Death of Madame de la Peltrie. CHAPTER XI. Last Illness of the Mother of the Incarnation.--Her Blessed Death.-- Universal regret for her loss.--Her Virtues. APPENDIX. Evening Devotion of the Mother of the Incarnation in honour of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Evening Devotion of the Venerable Mother in honour of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. A few Parting Words on the Old Monastery of Quebec. A GLANCE AT CANADA IN THE DAYS OF THE VENERABLE MOTHER MARY OF THE INCARNATION. Early in the sixteenth century, reports of the progress of discovery in America began to make their way to France, and, as a natural result, to arouse emulation. For no one had the stirring tales a greater charm than for the reigning Sovereign, Francis I., whose spirit of rivalry, thirst of glory, and love of adventure, they were especially calculated to stimulate. It would have been as repugnant to the nature, as it was inconsistent with the policy of the ambitious monarch, to permit the Kings of Spain [Footnote: In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered the islands of the Western Hemisphere, and took possession in the name of the Spanish Sovereigns, Ferdinand and Isabella. At his third voyage, in 1498, he added to the first discovery, that of the Continent of South America.] and Portugal [Footnote: in 1500, Alvarez de Cabral, a Portuguese navigator, took possession of Brazil for his royal master, Emmanuel, King of Portugal. Amerigo Vespucci had discovered its coast in 1498.] to monopolize the glory and the advantages anticipated from possession of the western world; such an idea was not to be for a moment entertained. If their banners waved over its Southern Continent, that was no reason, he argued, why France should not unfurl her fair white lilies in the Northern. [Footnote: The mainland of North America was discovered in 1497 by the celebrated Italian adventurers, John Cabot and his sons, under a commission from Henry VII of England, who, however, did not avail of the