I.
Ihonatiria, a Huron village, [57]; Brébeuf takes up his abode there, [59]; ruined by the pestilence, [137].
Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, [110].
Incarnation, Marie de l', at Tours, [174]; her unhappy marriage, [175]; a widow, ib; self-inflicted austerities, ib.; mystical espousal to Christ, [176]; rhapsodies, ib.; dejection, [177]; abandons her child and becomes a nun, [178]; her talents for business, [179]; her vision, [180]; the vision explained as a call to Canada, [181]; embarks for that country, ib.; perilous voyage, [182]; her arduous labors at Quebec, [185]; her difficulties, [186]; extolled as a saint, [177], [186].
Indian population mutable, [xix]; its distribution, [xx]; two great families, ib.; superstitions and traditions, [lxvii]-[lxxxvii]; dreamers, [lxxxiii]; sorcerers and diviners, [lxxxiv], [93]; their religion fearful yet puerile, [lxxxviii], [94]; an Indian lodge, [141]; Indian manners softened by the influence of the missions, [319]; Indian infatuation, [336].
Indians, their arts of life, [xxx]; amusements, [xxxvi]; festivals, [xxxvii]; social character, [xlviii]; self-control, [xlix]; influenced by custom, ib.; hospitality and generosity, ib. note; fond of society, [1]; their division into clans, [li]; the totem, or symbol of the clan, [39] ib.; Indian rule of descent and inheritance, ib.; vast extent of this rule, [lii]; their superstitions, [lxvii] et seq.; their cosmogonies, [lxxiii], [lxxv]; degrading conceptions of the Supreme Being, [lxxviii]; no word for God, [lxxix]; obliged to use a circumlocution, ib.; their belief in a future state, [lxxx]; their conceptions of it dim, ib.; their belief in dreams, [lxxxiii]; the Indian Pluto, ib. note; the Indian mind stagnant, [lxxxix]; savage in religion as in life, ib.; no knowledge of the true God, ib.; scenes in a wigwam, [30]; their foul language, [31]; not profane, ib.; hardships and sufferings, [39]; a specimen of their diplomacy, [51]; an Indian masquerade, [66]; Indian bacchanals, [67]; their idea of thunder, [69]; Indian mind not a blank, [134]; specimen of Indian reasoning, [135]; Indians received benefit from the Jesuit missions, [164].
Initiatory fast for obtaining a guardian manitou, [lxxi].
"Infernal Wolf," the, [117]; a name for the Devil, ib. note.
Influence of the missions salutary, [319].
Instructions for the missionaries to the Hurons, [54].
Intrepid conduct of the Jesuits, [125].
Iroquois, or Five Nations, origin of the name, [xlvii]; where found in early times, [xx], [xlvi], [278] note; their dwellings, [xxvii] note., [xxviii] note; a licentious people, [xxxiv] note; have capacious skulls, [xliii] note; burn female captives, [xlv]; their character, [xlvii]; their eminent position and influence, ib.; their true name, [xlviii] note; divided into eight clans or families, [lv]; symbols of these clans, ib. note; the chiefs, how selected, [lvi]; the councils, [lvii]; how and when assembled, [lviii]; how conducted, [lix]; their debates, ib.; strict unanimity required, ib.; artful management of the chiefs, [lx] note; the professed orators, [lxi]; military organization, [lxiv]; and discipline, ib.; spirit of the confederacy, [lxv]; attachment to ancient forms, ib.; their increase by adoption, [lxvi]; population at different times, ib. note; have no name for God, [lxxviii]; a captive Iroquois sacrificed by the Hurons to the god of war, [80]; supplied by the Dutch with fire-arms, [211]; make war on the French in Canada, [212], [269] seq.; extreme cruelty to Jogues and other prisoners, [217]-[222], [228]; cannibalism, [228], [250]; audacity, [241]; attack Fort Richelieu, [244]; spread devastation and terror through Canada, [245], [251]; horrible nature of their warfare, [246]-[250]; torments inflicted on prisoners, [248] seq., [271]; an Iroquois prisoner tortured by Algonquins, [277]; treaty of peace with the French and Algonquins, [284] seq.; numbers of the Iroquois, [297] note; the Iroquois determination to destroy the Hurons, [336]; their moral superiority, [337]; a defeat sustained by them, [338]; their shameless treachery, [339]; invade the Huron country and destroy the towns, [379]; their atrocious cruelty, [385]; their retreat, [386]; they pursue the remnants of the Huron nation, [412], [425]; attack the Atticamegues, [420]; attack the Hurons at Michilimackinac, [425]; exterminate the Neutral Nation, [437]; exterminate the Eries, [438]-[440]; terrible cruelty, [441] note; their bloody supremacy, [444]; it cost them dear, ib.; tyrants of a wide wilderness, [445]; their short-sighted policy, [434].