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THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents
TRAVELS AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE JESUIT MISSIONARIES IN NEW FRANCE
THE ORIGINAL FRENCH, LATIN, AND ITALIAN TEXTS, WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES; ILLUSTRATED BY PORTRAITS, MAPS, AND FACSIMILES
REUBEN GOLD THWAITES Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
CLEVELAND: =The Burrows Brothers Company=, PUBLISHERS, M DCCC XCVII
COPYRIGHT, 1897 BY THE BURROWS BROTHERS CO
Translator from the French JOHN CUTLER COVERT
Assistant Translator from the French MARY SIFTON PEPPER
Translator from the Latin WILLIAM FREDERIC GIESE
Translator from the Italian MARY SIFTON PEPPER
XIV. Relation de la Novvelle France, de ses Terres, Natvrel dv Païs, & de ses Habitans. [Chapters xxvi.-xxxvii. and Index, completing the document.] _Pierre Biard_; Lyons, 1616 7
XV. Lettre au Sievr de Champlain. _Charles Lalemant_; Kebec, July 28, 1625 170
XVI. Lettre au R.P. Prouincial des RR. Pères Recollects. _Charles Lalemant_; Kebec, July 28, 1625 172
XVII. Epistola ad R.P. Mutium Vitelleschi, Præpositum Generalem Societatis Jesu, Romæ. _Carolus Lalemant_; Nova Francia, August 1, [1626] 176
XVIII. Lettre au Pere Hierosme l'Allemant. _Charles Lalemant_; Kebec, August 1, 1626 185
XIX. Lettre au R.P. Supérieur du Collége des Iésuites à Paris. _Charles Lalemant_; Bordeaux, November 22, 1629 229
I. Portrait of Jean de Brébeuf, S.J.; photo-engraving from oil portrait by Donald Guthrie McNab _Frontispiece_
II. Photographic facsimile of title-page, Charles Lalemant to Jerome 188
Following is a synopsis of the documents contained in the present volume:
XIV. In the concluding portion (Chapters xxvi.-xxxvii.) of the _Relation_ of 1616, Biard relates how he and Father Quentin were taken to Virginia, where they narrowly escaped death; they then were sent to England, and finally to France, arriving there after a captivity of over nine months, and being subjected to many perils by sea and land. The annalist records what progress the Christian religion has made in New France. The missionaries have now learned the nature of the country, and the character and needs of the people; and the colonists have established friendly relations with the savages. The latter have some general knowledge of religion, and are anxious to be baptized. Several miracles are recounted, in the cure of persons given up as dying. Biard then discusses at length the respective territorial claims of the French and English in the New World, and contends that New France should extend southward at least to 39°. He concludes by urging that more attention should be given in France to both the temporal and religious interests of Canada, especially to the conversion of the savages.