Q.
Quatogies. See Hurons.
Qualifications for success in an Indian mission, [134] note.
Quebec in 1634, [1]; its first settler, [3]; condition in 1640, [154]; its aspect half military, half monastic, [158]; its very amusements acts of religion, [160]; state of things in 1651, [331]; New-Year's Day, 1646, [334].
R.
Ragueneau, Paul, missionary among the Hurons, [123], [124], [126]; relates proceedings of a council held respecting a murder, [355]; Father Superior, [370].
Raymbault, Charles, enters Lake Superior with Jogues, [213].
Religion and superstitions of the Indians, [lxvii] et seq.; worship of material objects, inanimate no less than animate, ib.; the Indians attribute their origin to beasts, birds, and reptiles, [lxviii]; all nature full of objects of religious fear and dread, [lxxxiv]; sacrifices, [lxxxvi].
Remarkable instance of Indian forgiveness, [319].
Rome, Church of, her strange contradictions, [84]; self-denial of her missionaries, ib.
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].
T.
Tarenyowagon, a powerful deity, [lxxvii].
Tarratines, the Abenaquis so called, [xxii] note.
Tattooing practised, [xxxiii]; a severe process, ib.
Teanaustayé, [137]. See St. Joseph.
Tessouat, or Le Borgne, converted, [268].
Tionnontates. See Tobacco Nation.
Tobacco Nation, or Tionnontates, in league with the Hurons, [xliii]; raised tobacco, [47]; mission among them, [140]; reception of the missionaries, [141]; perils of the missionaries, [142]; some of the Hurons seek an asylum there, [393], [404].
Tobacco, none in Heaven, a sad thought to the Indian, [136].
Totems, emblems of clans, [li], [lxviii], [375].
Trade in furs, [xlv], [47], [155].
Traffic of the Indians, how conducted, [xxxvi].
Treatment of women, [xxxiv], [xxxv]; of prisoners, [xxxix], [xlv], [80], [216] seq., [248] seq., [253], [254], [277], [339], [388], [439], [441] note.
Tuscaroras, in Carolina, [xxi]; unite with the Five Nations, [xxi], [lxvi].
U.
Unchastity of the Indians, [xxxiv] note, [xlv].
Ursulines at Tours, [173]; at Quebec, their labors, [184]; their instructions, [185].