Index of the Most Important Subjects.

ABSENCE of Father Biard causes the French not to expose themselves to danger of ruin.p.178
Acadia, country of the Souriquois, near Canada.p.4
Açores, Islands of the Spanish crown.p.281
Aguigueou, Asticou, Betsabes, Canadian Captains, offer to the French, captured by the English, to take them away and maintain them. p.35
Alain Yeon, Pilot of St. Malo, charitable towards the French of St. Sauveur.p.257
Ambassador of France in England, solicits the liberation of the captive Jesuits of Canada.p.296
Advancement of the English eighty leagues into new France.p.228
English defeated by the Armouchiquois, and why.p.179
English settled in Virginia, two hundred leagues from the French of St. Sauveur.p.227
English guided to St. Sauveur through a misunderstanding of the Canadians, who supposed them to be French.p.229
English invade the ship of the French of St. Sauveur, plunder the settlement, and capture the French.p.235
English cunningly rob the French of their Royal patents, to prevent their making an honest defense in their captivity.p.238
English, having power to throw the captive Jesuits into the sea, not to ruin themselves on their account, content themselves with hiding them.p.286
English, compelled to land at the Açores, are rendered safe through the charity of the Jesuits, their captives.p.289
English acknowledge this kind service of the Jesuits.p.290
English, holding the Jesuits captive, themselves suspected of being pirates by their own countrymen.pag.29
English, suspected of being pirates, are acquitted on the evidence of the Jesuits, their prisoners.p.293
English are afraid to land upon Spanish territory, with their Jesuit prisoners.p.285
English merely pretenders to new France.p.320
Eel-fishing in the middle of September.p.47
Fruit trees very rare in Canada.p.31
Forest trees of Canada.p.32
Bows and shields upon the men's graves.p.92
Slate in Canada.p.32
Argal, an English Captain, secretly seizes the commissions of the French of St. Sauveur.p.238
Argal, an English Captain, wishes to send all the French to France in a small boat, with evident danger of their being lost. p.251
Argal, an English Captain, strongly opposes the Marshal of Virginia, so that his French prisoners should not be hanged.p.262
Argal, an English Captain, a just man.p.270
Arms of the Canadians, the bow and the shield.p.55
Armorial Bearings of Madame de Guerche-ville placed at Cap de la Heve, as a sign of possession.p.216
Armouchiquois strongly suspected by the French of intending to plunder them, under pretext of trade.p.178
Armouchiquois disposed favorably to Christianity.p.180
Seated. To be seated, a sign of reverence among the Canadians.p.91
Association of the Marquise de Guercheville with sieur de Potrincourt in Canadian affairs.p.188
Asticou, a Sagamore on the coast of Acadia.p.222
Lobsters, or sea Crabs, were caught by the French of St. Sauveur in their great poverty.p.253
To have a dog and a bag, in Canada, is to enjoy the rights of property.p.51
Autmoins are the Priests of the Canadians.p.54
Autmoins, Medicine men and Sorcerers dupe the simple Canadians.p.79
Autmoins require many presents for the cure of the sick.p.87
Autmoins invoke God by the name of the Sun, when they are in need.p.96

B.

Baie de Chinictou en Canada, estendue en belles prairies.p.27.
Baie Françoise entre Port Royal, & la riuiere S. Jean. p.165.
Baie des mines à vingt & deux lieuës de Port Royal.p.203.
Baye de Genes, ainsi appellée par Chãplain.p.204.
Baye des mines large de huict lieuës.p.205.
Baptesme trop facilement conferé au Mexique, auec notable dommage des baptisés.p.106.
Baptesme conferé aux Canadois non instruits au deuoir de Christianisme, & le mal qui en reussit.p.111.
Baptesme des personnes aagées, non bien instruites, differé auec grande consideration.p.115.
Baptesme desiré des Canadins auãt la mort.p.310.
Baptesme guerit vn enfant Canadin malade à la mort.p.318.
Baptisés en Canada sans precedente instruction, ne sçauoyent rien du Chrestien, non pas mesmes leur nom de Baptesme. p.109.
[124] Basques ont alienés les Excomminquois en Canada de nos François.p.33.
Biencourt & Robin en faueur des Caluinistes, consentent
que les Iesuites n'entrent dans leur nauire.
p.134.
Biencourt par le moyen des Iesuites fait voile en Canada, beaucoup plustost qu'il ne pouuoit autrement.p.138.
Biencourt soupçonne que Madame de Guerche-ville le veut despoüiller des droicts de Canada. p.197.
Bretons ont descouuert la France nouuelle.p. 2.
Bretons souuent malades en Canada.p.15.
Cabanes d'Hyuer des Canadois, d'un clos rond de perches fermées en poincte par le haut, couuertes de peaux, nattes, ou escorces.p.40.41.
Cabanes des Canadois toujours en bel aspect, & prés des bonnes eaux.p.41.
Cabanes d'Esté des Canadois, larges & longues, & couuertes de nattes, ou escorces. p.42.
Calais. Le Gouuerneur, & Doyen de Calais accueillent, & secourent charitablement les Iesuites de Canada renuoyés d'Angleterre.p.299.
Caluinistes ne peuuent trouuer bon que les Iesuites passent en Canada, ouy biẽ tous autres Ecclesiastiques.p.133.
Canada n'est qu'vne partie de la France nouuelle, sçauoir est, la coste du long de la grande riuiere Canadas.p.3. 4.
Canada, Prouince de la France nouuelle premierement descouuerte par Iaques Cartier l'an 1524.p.4.
Canada parallele à la France, en mesme climat, & eleuation de Pole.p.9.
Canada plus froide que nostre France, & pourquoy.p.10.
Canada sujecte au Scurbot, ou maladie de la terre.p.14.
[126] Canada apporte maladie aux oiseux.p.16.
Canada germe aussitost au Printemps que nostre France. p.18.
Canada és endroits les plus froids rend les bleds meurs en son temps.p.19.
Canada n'a point de hautes montagnes.p.20.
Canada fort entrecoupée de riuieres, & bras de mer, en est renduë plus froide.p.23.
Canada à cause des continuelles forests est moins eschauffée du Soleil, & pource plus froide que les campagnes ouuertes. p.24.
Canada pour n'estre labourée est couuerte d'vne dure crouste, quasi impenetrable au Soleil, & partant beaucoup plus froide.p.24.
Canada produict la vigne sauuage en beaucoup d'endroits, qui meurit en son temps.p.31.
Canada és terres cogneües des François, n'a que dix mille habitans.p.73.
Canada, horsmis Port Royal, donné à Madame de Guercheuille.p.190.
Canada du Gouuernement du Prince de Soissons.p.330.
Canada pourquoy doit estre cultiuée des François.p.331.
Canadois fideles au François cõtre l'Anglois.p.34.
Canadois charitables enuers les François captifs de l'Anglois.p.35.36.
Canadois ont honne memoire des choses sensibles.p.36.
Canadois comprennent, & iugent bien les choses sensibles. p.36.
Canadoises ceintes dessus, & dessous le ventre.p.37.
Canadois quasi tous sans barbe, horsmis les bien robustes. p.37.
Canadois ne peuuent retenir la memoire d'vne suitte de paroles.p.27.
[128] Canadois mocqueurs des personnes contrefaites.p.37.
Canadois n'ont point le corps contrefaict, ny defectueux.p.37.
Canadois vestus de peaux conroyées auec le poil, & bigarrées de couleurs.p.39.
Canadois paoureux, & grands vanteurs.p.55.
Canadois forts, & addroicts à la lutte, & non à autre combat.p.55.
Canadois liberaux & recognoissans.p.58.
Canadois prattiquët la Polygamie plus pour le proufit, que pour l'incontinence.p.62.
Canadois maladifs depuis la hãtise des Frãçois, à cause de leurs excés à manger viandes non accoustumées.p.69.
Canadois ne se soucient du lendemain, viuãs du iour à la iournée.p.70.
Canadois oincts d'huile de loup marin sentent mal.p.77.
Canadois se font Chrestiens, seulement pour marque d'amitié auec les François.p.109.
Canadois se plaignent fort qu'on ne les ait aduerty des deuoirs du Christianisme auãt leur baptesme, ausquels ils ne se fussent obligés, s'ils les eussent cogneus.p.111.
Canadins baptisés à la poursuitte du sieur de Potrincourt.p.126.
Canadois ne peuuẽt exprimer par parole que les choses fort sensibles, & materielles.p.151.
Canadins sujects d'Asticou inuitent les Iesuites à prendre logis en leur terre.p.222.
Canadins caressent les Anglois, les croyans estre François, & par ignorance les menent à S. Sauueur, où ils pillent & captiuent les François.p.229.
[130] Canadin s'attriste fort, ayant recogneu que par mesgarde il auoit mis les François de Sainct Sauueur entre les mains de l'Anglois.p.231.
Canadins portent grande compassion aux François captifs de l'Anglois, & leur offrent toute amitié.p.246.
Canadins donnent largement de leur proye aux François de S. Sauueur necessiteux.p.253.
Canadins bien recogneus peuuent estre cy apres mieux aidés au salut de leur ame.p.306.
Canadins ayans grande confiance aux François, peuuent estre mieux aidez par eux, que par autres en leur conuersion.p.307.
Canadins grandement fideles aux François.p.308.
Canadins ennemis de l'Anglois, & Holandois.p.309.
Canadins affectionnez au Baptesme.p.310.
Canadine malade à la mort, guerie par le Catechisme, & vne Croix penduë au col.p.313.
Canadois ne portent point de hauts de chausses.p.39.
Canadois portent greues, & souliers de peaux d'eslan.p.39.
Canadois plantẽt nouuelles cabanes à chaque changement de lieu, & de residence.p.40.
Canadois se cabanent en bel aspect, & prés des bonnes eaux.p.41.
Canadois se couchent à l'entour du foyer, sur des peaux de loups marins, la teste sur vn sac.p.41.
Canadois à chacune des treize lunes annuelles ont nouuelle chasse, ou pesche.p.42.
Canadois ne viuent que de chasse, & de pesche.p.42.
Canadois meurent de faim quand la chasse, & pesche ne reüssit.p.43.
Canadois sont fort incõmodés de pluye, & de nege, quand elle ne gele pas.p.44.
[132] Canadois portent des raquettes au pied sur la nege molle, pour chasser.p.44.
Canadois riches en gibier d'eau, non de terre.p.46.
Canadois en my-Septembre de la mer vont à la pesche des riuieres.p.47.
Canadois ne possedent rien en proprieté auant leur mariage.p.51.
Canadois ont des quereles sur le refus des droicts les vns enuers les autres.p.52.
Canadin guery par la Croix, & Catechisme.p.315.
Canadins hurlent horriblement aupres de leurs malades mourans.p.317.
Campseau coste de mer loin de six vingts lieuës de Port Royal.p.139.
Cap de la Heue en la coste de l'Acadie.pag.216.
Cap de sable.p.255.
Cap Breton. p.263.
Cap Forchu.p.255.
Caribous, moitié asne, moitié cerf, bons à manger.p.43.
Castors & Eslans ont leur seconde chasse en Octobre & Nouembre.p.47.
Castors se prennent en Feuier & Mars, pour la premiere chasse.p.43.
Catechisme exactement practiqué est tres-necessaire aux Canadins à cause de leur façon de viure vagabonde.p. 102.103.104.
Catechisme & Croix penduë au col d'vne Canadine la guerit de maladie mortelle.p.313.
Catechisme guerit vn Canadin malade.p.215.
Cauots, esquifs des Canadois, faicts, d'escorce de bouleau, fort legers, capables de toute vne famille, & vtensiles necessaires.p.48.
Cauot fort commode pour la pesche, & voiture.p.48.
Cauot faict quarante lieuës en vn iour.pag.49.
Champlain fonde l'habitation de Kebec.p.121.
[134] Champlain descouure la coste de la riuiere S. Laurens.p.121.
Champlain Lieutenant du sieur de Monts.p.121.
Champlain allant à Kebec passe à trauers des glaçons de mer enormément gros & affreux.p.139.
Charbon de terre en Canada.p.32.
Chair boucanée, ou sechée à la fumée, mise en reserue.p.70.
Charmes, Chesnes, Hestres, & Peupliers en Canada.p.32.
Chasse & pesche sont tout le reuenu des Canadois.p.42.
Chasse premiere des Castors en Feurier, & Mars.p.43.
Chasse seconde des Castors, & Eslans en Octobre & Nouembre.p.47.
Cheuille plantée en terre par l'Autmoin faignant de chasser le Diable.p.82.83.84.
Chiens du malade mangés en Tabagie. pag.89.
Chinictou est vne Baye en Canada fort belle en prairies.p.27.
Chinictou pays de Canada fertile & aggreable.p.204.
Chiquebi racine à guise de truffes, dont les Iesuites viuoyent en temps de famine.p.213.
Chirurgien Anglois Catholique, charitable enuers les François de S. Sauueur blessez.p.241.
Coquilles, & poissons de toute sorte foisonnent en la mer de Canada durant cinq mois.p. 45.
Coste de la riuiere Sainct Iean en Canada, abondante en vigne sauuage, & noyers.p.31.
Coste de S. Sauueur fort aggreable. p.225.
Croix penduë au col d'vn Canadin le guerit d'vne longue maladie.p.315.
Croix plantée au Cap de la Heue. p.216.
Croix plantée au Port S. Sauueur.p.226.
Coudriers sont frequents en Canada.p.31.
Counibas pays inhabitable à cause du froid.p.21.

B.

Bay of Chinictou in Canada, surrounded by beautiful meadows.p.27
French Bay, between Port Royal and the river St. John.p.165
Bay of mines, twenty-two leagues from Port Royal.p.203
Baye de Genes, thus called by Champlain.p.204
Bay of mines eight leagues wide.p.205
Baptism too easily administered in Mexico, with notable detriment to those baptised. p.106
Baptism administered to the Canadians not yet instructed in the duties of Christianity, and the evils which result therefrom.p.111
Baptism of aged persons, not well instructed, deferred with great consideration.p.115
Baptism desired by Canadians before dying.p.310
Baptism cures a Canadian child sick unto death. p.318
Those baptised in Canada without previous instruction, know nothing of Christianity, not even their Baptismal names.p.109
Basques have alienated the Excomminquois in Canada from our French.p.33
Biencourt and Robin, out of regard for the Calvinists, agree that the Jesuits must not enter their ship.p.134
Biencourt by means of the Jesuits sails for Canada, much sooner than he could have done without them.p.138
Biencourt suspects that Madame de Guerche-ville wishes to rob him of his rights in Canada.p. 197
Bretons discovered new France.p.2
Bretons often sick in Canada.p.15
Winter Cabins of the Canadians; a circle of poles closed at the top and covered with skins, mats, or pieces of bark.p.40,41
Cabins of the Canadians always in a beautiful location, and near good water.p.41
Summer Cabins of the Canadians long and wide, and covered with mats or bark.p.42
Calais. The Governor and Dean of Calais welcome and kindly assist the Jesuits of Canada sent back from England.p.299
Calvinists are not satisfied to have the Jesuits go to Canada, but are willing to take all other Ecclesiastics.p.133
Canada is only a part of new France, namely, the land along the great river Canadas.p.3, 4
Canada, a Province of new France, first discovered by Jaques Cartier, in the year 1524.p.4
Canada parallel to France, in the same climate and Polar elevation.p.9
Canada colder than our France, and why.p.10
Canada subject to Scurvy or land disease.p.14
Canada brings sickness to those who are idle.p.16
Canada shows vegetation as early in Spring as our France.p.18
Canada in the coldest places yields the wheat crop in its season.p.19
Canada has no high mountains.p.20
Canada, very much intersected by rivers and arms of the sea, is thereby rendered colder.p.23
Canada, on account of the continuous forests, is less heated by the Sun, and therefore colder than the open countries.p.24
Canada, not being cultivated, is covered with a hard crust, almost impenetrable to the Sun, and therefore much colder.p.24
Canada produces the wild grape in many places, which ripens in its season.p.31
Canada, in the lands known to the French, has only ten thousand inhabitants.p.73
Canada, with the exception of Port Royal, given to Madame de Guercheville.p.190
Canada under Authority of the Prince de Soissons.p.330
Canada, why the French should cultivate it.p.331
Canadians faithful to French against English.p.34
Canadians kind to French made prisoners by English.p.35,36
Canadians have a good memory for visible and material things.p.36
Canadians comprehend and estimate well the things known through the senses.p.36
Canadian women wear belts above and below the stomach.p.37
Canadians nearly all beardless, except the more robust.p.37
Canadians have no memory for a consecutive arrangement of words.p.27
Canadians scoffers at ill-shapen people.p.37
Canadians' bodies are not ill-shapen or defective.p.37
Canadians dressed in skins which have been curried and decorated in various colors.p.39
Canadians cowardly and great boasters.p.55
Canadians strong and skillful in wrestling, and not in any other kind of combat.p.55
Canadians generous and grateful.p.58
Canadians practice Polygamy more for profit than for incontinence.p.62
Canadians sickly since their intercourse with the French, on account of their excesses in eating food to which they are not accustomed.p.69
Canadians not anxious about to-morrow, only living from day to day.p.70
Canadians, when they rub themselves with seal oil, have a bad smell.p.77
Canadians embrace Christianity only as a sign of friendship with the French. p.109
Canadians complain greatly that they were not advised of the duties of Christianity before their baptism, to which they would not have bound themselves if they had known them.p.111
Canadians baptized through the instrumentality of sieur de Potrincourt.p.126
Canadians can express in words only the more visible and material things.p.151
Canadian subjects of Asticou invite the Jesuits to locate in their territory.p.222
Canadians embrace the English, believing them to be French, and through ignorance guide them to St. Sauveur, where they plunder and capture the French.p.229
Canadians very sorrowful when they recognized that through inadvertence they had delivered the French of Saint Sauveur into the hands of the English.p.231
Canadians show great sympathy for the French taken prisoners by the English, and offer them many favors.p.246
Canadians give generously of their game to the needy French of St. Sauveur.p.253
Canadians, well understood, can afterwards be better assisted in the salvation of their souls. p.306
Canadians, having great confidence in the French, can be better aided by them, than by others, in their conversion.p.307
Canadians very faithful to the French.p.308
Canadians enemies of the English and Dutch.p.309
Canadians fond of Baptism.p.310
Canadian woman sick unto death, cured by the Catechism and a Cross hung around her neck.p.313
Canadians do not wear trousers.p.39
Canadians wear leggings and shoes of elk skin.p.39
Canadians erect new houses at every change of place and residence.p.40
Canadians camp in pleasant localities and near good water.p.41
Canadians lie around the fire, upon seal skins, their heads upon bags.p.41
Canadians have new game or fish for every one of their thirteen moons.p.42
Canadians live only upon game and fish.p.42
Canadians die of starvation when hunting and fishing are not successful.p.43
Canadians are very greatly inconvenienced by the rain and snow when it does not freeze.p.44
Canadians wear snowshoes upon the feet when the snow is soft, for hunting.p.44
Canadians rich in marine, not in forest game.p.46
Canadians, in the middle of September, come from the sea to fish in the rivers.p.47
Canadians possess no property before marriage.p.51
Canadians quarrel when some refuse dues to others.p.52
Canadian cured by the Cross and Catechism.p.315
Canadians howl terribly around their dying friends.p.317
Campseau seacoast distant one hundred and twenty leagues from Port Royal.p.139
Cap de la Heve on the coast of Acadia.pag.216
Cape sable.p.255
Cape Breton.p.263
Cape Forchu.p.255
Caribou, half ass, half deer, good to eat.p.43
Chase, the second time for the Beaver and Elk in October and November.p.47
Capture of the beaver in the first hunt, in February and March.p.43
Catechism exactly attended to is very necessary to the Canadians, on account of their wandering mode of life.p.102,103,104
Catechism and Cross, hung from the neck of a Canadian woman, cure her of a mortal illness.p.313
Catechism cures a sick Canadian.pag.215
Canoes, the skiffs of the Canadians, made of birch-bark, very light, capable of holding an entire family and their necessary utensils.p.48
Canoe very convenient for fishing and conveyance.p.48
Canoe makes forty leagues in one day.pag.49
Champlain establishes the settlement of Kebec.p.121
Champlain explores the shores of the river St. Lawrence.p.121
Champlain, Lieutenant of sieur de Monts.p.121
Champlain, going to Kebec, passes through enormous and frightful masses of ice.p.139
Coal in Canada.p.32
Smoked meat, or meat dried in smoke, stored away.p.70
Elm, Oak, Beech, and Poplar in Canada.p.32
Hunting and fishing are the only resources of the Canadians.p.42
First hunt for Beavers in February and March.p.43
Second hunt for Beavers and Elk in October and November.p.47
Stick planted in the ground by the Autmoin, feigning to chase away the Devil.p.82,83,84
Dogs of the sick man eaten in the Tabagie.pag.89
Chinictou is a Bay in Canada surrounded by beautiful meadows.p.27
Chinictou a country of Canada fertile and pleasant.p.204
Chiquebi, a root something like truffles, upon which the Jesuits lived in time of famine.p.213
English Surgeon, a Catholic, charitable towards the wounded French of St. Sauveur.p.241
Shellfish, and fish of all kinds, swarm in the Canadian sea during five months.p.45
Banks of the river Saint John in Canada abounding in wild grapes and nuts.p.31
Coast of St. Sauveur very agreeable.p.225
Cross hung from the neck of a Canadian cures him of a long illness.p.315
Cross planted at Cap de la Heve.p.216
Cross planted at the Port of St. Sauveur.p.226
Hazel trees very abundant in Canada.p.31
Counibas country uninhabitable on account of the cold.p.21

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Defunct enseuely auec son sac, ses peaux, fleches, & autres meubles siens, & presents de ses amis.p.92.
Diable familier à Membertou encore Payen.p.95.
Diable trauaillant les Canadois auant la venuë des François.p.95.
Dieu entre les Canadois est nommé du nom du Soleil.p.96.
Dix mille personnes seulement en toutes les terres de Canada. p.73.
Droict de proprieté en Canada se practique par la possession du chien, & du sac.p.51.
Dueil à la mort des parens & amis, est de se broüiller la face de noir.p.90.
Du Pont le ieune reconcilié au sieur de Potrincourt à la requeste du P. Biard.pag.147.
Du Pont le ieune reconcilié au sieur de Potrincourt se confesse, & faict ses Pasques au bord de la mer, auec grande edification des assistans.p.148.
Du Pont perd son nauire, & le recouure à la requeste du P. Biard.p.148.
Du Pont le ieune employé pour traduire le Catechisme en langue Canadine.p.175.
Du Pont le ieune retire en son nauire vne partie des François de S. Sauueur.p.256.

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