S.
Sacrifice, a human, by fire, witnessed by a missionary, [80] seq.
Sacrifices of the Indians, [lxxxv], [lxxxvi] note.
St. Bernard, Marie de, a nun at Tours, [174]; embarks for Canada, [181].
St. Ignace, town, taken by the Iroquois, [380]; furious battle with the Hurons, [384]; the town and its inhabitants destroyed by fire, [385]; vestiges still remaining, ib. note.
St. Jean, town in the Tobacco Nation, attacked by the Iroquois, [405]; destroyed by fire, [406].
St. Joseph, a town in the Huron country, [137], [374]; surprised by the Iroquois, [375]; and destroyed, [377]; another station of this name on an island, [395]; the Huron refugees repair thither, [399]; their extreme misery, ib.; famine, [400].
St. Louis, town in the Huron country, attacked, [380]; severe struggle, [381]; destroyed by the Iroquois, ib.
Ste. Marie, in the Huron country, a mission established there, [139]; the place described, [362] seq.; a bountiful hospitality exercised towards the converts and others, [367]; alarm and anxiety at the Iroquois invasion, [382]; the station abandoned, [394]; stripped of all valuables, and set on fire, [396].
Schoolcraft, Henry R., his Notes on the Iroquois, [liv] note; his mistakes, [lxxviii], [lxxx]; his collection of Algonquin tales, [lxxxviii]; his unsatisfactory speculations about Huron graves, [71].
Seminary, Huron, at Quebec, [167].
Senecas, one of the Five Nations, [xlviii] note, [liv]. See Iroquois.
Sepulture among the Hurons, [lxxxi], [71] seq.
Sillery, Noël Brulart de, becomes a priest, [182]; founds the settlement which bears his name, [183].
Sioux punish adultery, [xxxiv]; harass the Hurons, [425].
Sorcerer, a dwarfish, deformed one, troubles the Jesuits, [91]; his account of his origin, [92]; sorcerers, several, in time of mortal sickness, [93].
Sorcery, as practised among the Indians, [lxxxiv], [32]-[38].
Speech-making, Indian, [287], [292]-[294].
Sun worshipped, [lxxvi].
Supernaturalism of the Jesuits, [106]; supposed efficacy of relics and prayers to relieve pain and cure disease, [107]; conversions effected in this manner, [108]; such views still entertained, as illustrated in a curious incident, ib.
Superstitions of the Indians, [lxvii] seq., [68].
Superstitious terrors, [lxxxiv], [115], [141].
Susquehannocks. See Andastes.
Swedish colonists on the Delaware assist the Andastes, [442].