ALCES consideratio,7
virtus mira ungulæ ejus,8
Angli barbaris gladios et gravidas nitrato pulvere fistulas suppeditant,27
Animarum de natura delirant Canadenses,20,46
Aves Novæ Franciæ,14
Avis prædatrix,15
Batavi barbaris arma vendunt,27
Canada fluvius,5
Canadensium domus,16
mulierum labores,17
morbi et ægrorum cura,18
funera,20
bella,27
arma,28
crudelitas in captivos,29
indoles,33
corporis cultus,37
cibi,42
convivia,44
[52] Canadensium supellex,44
religio et superstitiones,45
Captivorum crudelis sors,29
Casæ Canadensium,16
cadavera perjanuam nunquam esseruntur,20
Casæ fibrorum,10
Causarus seu Piscis armatus,12
Clypei barbarorum,28
[294] Coquendi ratio in cacabis è cortice confectis, 42
Ebrietas ab Europæis discitur,44
Exequiarum ritus,20
Feminis imponitur quidquid laboris est,17
Fibri consideratio,9
Fluvii quid habent singulare,6
Franciæ Novæ descriptio, flumina,5
cœlum,6
soli natura,7
feræ,7
Galliæ rex cur magni æstimabatur,45
Hurones diem Mortuorum celebrant,25
Infantium mira mortalitas,17
cur corpora propter viam sepeliunt,21
Infernales ignes esse probat sacerdos,48
[53] Iroquæi bellum cum Montanis singulari certamine finiunt,28
Iroquæorum lacus,12
Kebecum, urbs primaria Novæ Franciæ,6
Magna Bellua, quid,7
Manitoù, genius malorum,46
Missisipus fluvius,6
Montani bellum singulari certamine finiunt,28
Morborum fontes duo,18
Mortuorum festa celebritas apud Hurones,25
Mos Canadensis mortuos suscitandi,25
Naviculæ barbarorum,6
Neutra Natio,38
Numen nullo certo cultu prosequuntur,44
Palumbes absque numero,14
Pisces armatus,13
Patres non pauci Societatis Jesu dire torquentur,31
Religio Canadensium,45
Reticula pedibus substrata ut super nives de ambulent,8
[296] S. Laurentii fluvius,5, 6
Sagamita quid,42
[54] Saltus seu catadupæ in fluviis,6
Sinus Sancti Laurentii,14
Somniorum vanitas,46
Sudando noxios humores ejiciunt,19
Tabacum, natio ejus nominis,38
Trophæus,32
Volucrum insula,14

[51] Index of Prominent Topics.

[The page numbers refer to O'Callaghan's Reprint.]

ELK: description,7
wonderful efficacy of its hoof,8
The English supply swords, guns and ammunition to the savages,27
Absurd ideas of Canadians concerning the soul,20,46
Birds of New France,14
A bird of prey,15
The Dutch sell arms to the savages,27
The river Canada,5
Homes of the Canadians,16
tasks of the women,17
diseases and treatment of the sick,18
funerals,20
wars,27
weapons,28
cruelty to prisoners,29
character,33
care of the body,37
food,42
feasts,44
[52] Implements of the Canadians,44
religion and superstitions,45
Cruel fate of prisoners,29
Houses of the Canadians,16
corpses are never carried out through the door,20
Houses of the beavers,10
The Causar or armored Fish,12
Shields of the savages,28
Manner of cooking in vessels made from bark,42
Drunkenness is learned from the Europeans,44
Rites of sepulture,20
Whatever work there is, is placed upon the women,17
Description of the beaver,9
Peculiarities of the rivers,6
Description of New France, rivers,5
climate,6
nature of the soil,7
wild animals,7
Why the king of France was greatly respected,45
The Hurons celebrate the day of the Dead,25
Remarkable mortality among infants,17
why they bury the bodies near the road,21
A priest proves that there is hell fire,48
[53] The Iroquois conclude a war with the Montagnais by single combat,28
Lake of the Iroquois,12
Kebec, the chief city of New France,6
The Great Beast, what it is,7
Manitou, the spirit of evil,46
Mississippi river,6
The Montaignais conclude a war by single combat,28
Two sources of disease,18
Festival of the Dead among the Hurons,25
Canadian manner of honoring the dead,25
Boats of the savages,6
The Neutral Nation,38
They revere a deity with no fixed form of worship,44
Innumerable pigeons, 14
The armored fish,13
Fathers of the Society of Jesus are cruelly tortured,31
Religion of the Canadians,45
Network bound under the feet, to walk over the snow,8
St. Lawrence river,5, 6
Sagamita, what it is,42
[54] Water-falls, or cataracts, in the rivers,6
Gulf of St. Lawrence,14
Ignorant belief in dreams,46
They expel noxious humors by sweating,19
Tobacco, the nation of that name,38
The trophy,32
Isle of Birds, 14

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA: VOL. I

I

Our text of Lescarbot's La Conversion follows, to the close of p. 44 (original pagination), the copy at Lenox Library: pp. 45, 46, the "Regitre de Bapteme," follow the copy at John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R. I., as the Lenox copy does not have these two pages.

It is a rare book; the two copies above cited are the only ones known to us, in America. Leclerc, in Bibliotheca Americana (Paris, 1867), p. 206, says: "Cette pièce est plus rare que l'Histoire de la Nouvelle France," referring to Lescarbot's better-known work. Sabin speaks of it (vol. x., no. 40167), as "probably the rarest of Lescarbot's works."