H.
Habitations, Indian, [xxvi]; internal aspect in summer, [xxvii]; in winter, [xxviii].
Hawenniio, the modern Iroquois name for God, [lxxviii].
Hébert, Madame, an early resident of Quebec, [2], [15].
Hell, how represented to the Indians, [88], [163]; pictures of, [163].
Hiawatha, a deified hero, [lxxvii], [lxxviii].
Hodenosaunee, the true name of the Iroquois, [xlviii] note.
Hôtel-Dieu at Quebec founded, [181]; one at Montreal, [266].
Hundred Associates, the, a fur company, its grants of land, [156]; their quit-claim of the island of Montreal, [195]; transfer their monopoly to the colonists, [331].
Hunters of men, [307].
Huron mission proposed, [42]; the difficulties, [43]; motives for the undertaking, [44]; route to the Huron country, [45]; the missionaries baffled by a stroke of Indian diplomacy, [51]; they commence their journey, [53]; fatigues of the way, ib.; reception of the missionaries by the Hurons, [57]; mission house, [60]; methods taken to awaken interest, [61]; instructions given, [62]; the results not satisfactory, [64]; the Jesuits made responsible for the failure of rain, [68]; they gain the confidence of the Huron people, [70]; the mission strengthened by new arrivals, [85]; kindness of the Jesuits to the sick, [87]; their efforts at conversion, [88]; the Hurons slow to apprehend the subject of a future life, [89]; terms of salvation too hard, [90]; an elastic morality practised by the Jesuits, [97]; conversions promoted by supernatural aid, [108]; the new chapel at Ossossané described, [111]; first important success, [112]; persecuting spirit aroused, [115]; the Jesuits in danger, [116]; their daily life, [129]; number of converts in 1638, [132]; backsliding frequent, [135]; partial success, [147]; great subsequent success of the mission, [349]; the mission encounters slander and misrepresentation, [352], [353]; prosperity, [366]; successful agriculture, ib.; number of ecclesiastics and others in the Huron mission, 1649, ib.; the mission removed to an island in Lake Huron, [397]; a multitude of refugees, [399]; their extreme misery, [400]; the priests fully occupied, [401]; the mission abandoned, [415]; failure of the Jesuit plans in Canada, [446]; the cause, [447]; the consequences, [448]. See Jesuits.
Hurons, origin of the name, [xxxiii] note; their country, [xx], [xxiv], [xxv]; had a language akin to the Iroquois, [xxiv]; their disappearance, ib.; vestiges of them still found, [xxv]; supposed population, [xxv], [xxvi]; their habitations, [xxvi], [xxviii] note; extravagant accounts, [xxvi] note; internal aspect of their huts in summer, [xxvii]; in winter, [xxviii]; their fortifications, [xxix]; their agriculture, [xxx]; food, ib.; arts of life, ib.; dress, [xxxii]; dress scarcely worn in summer, [xxxiii]; female life, ib., [xxxv]; an unchaste people, [xxxiv]; marriages, temporary, ib.; shameless conduct of young people, [xxxv] note; employments of the men, [xxxvi]; amusements, ib.; feasts and dances, [xxxvii]; voracity, [xxxviii]; cannibalism, [xxxix]; practice of medicine, [xl]; Huron brains, [xliii]; the Huron Confederacy, [lii]; their political organization, ib.; propensity of the Hurons to theft, [lxiii], [131]; murder atoned for by presents, [lxi]; proceedings in case of witchcraft, [lxiii]; their objects of worship, [lxix] seq.; their conceptions of a future state, [lxxxi]; their burial of the dead, ib.; hostility of the Iroquois, [45], [52], [62]; visit Quebec, [46]; the scene after their arrival described, [47]; their idea of thunder, [69]; Huron graves, [71]; their origin, ib.; disposal of the dead, [73]; "Feast of the Dead," [75] seq.; disinterment, [73]; mourning, [74], [78]; funeral gifts, [76]; frightful scene, [77]; a pestilence, [87]; cannibals, [137]; attacked by the Iroquois, [212], [337]; defeat them, [338]; torture and burn an Iroquois chief, [339]; on the verge of ruin, [341]; apply for help to the Andastes, [342]; specimen of Huron eloquence, [355]; Hurons defeat the Iroquois at Three Rivers, [374]; fatuity of the Hurons, [379]; their towns destroyed, [379] seq.; ruin of the Hurons, [393]; the survivors take refuge on Isle St. Joseph, [399]; their extreme misery, [411] seq.; they abandon the island, [415]; endeavor to reach Quebec, [416]; the Iroquois waylay them, [417]; a fight on the Ottawa, ib.; they reach Montreal, [418]; and Quebec, ib.; a Huron traitor, [419]; a portion of the Hurons retreat to Lake Michigan and the Mississippi, [425]; others become incorporated with the Senecas, [424]; their country desolate, ib.; afterwards known as the Wyandots, [426]; a body of the Hurons left at St. Joseph destroy a party of Iroquois, [427]-[429]; a colony of Hurons near Quebec, [430].