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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
the youthful heroines stepped on Aug. 1. shore at Quebec, they stooped to kiss the earth which Relatior. they adopted as their country, and were ready, in case 1639. of need, to tinge with their blood. The governor, with the little garrison, received them at the water's edge; Hurons and Algonquins, joining in the shouts, fillghway of waters from Lake Erie to Lake Superior, and had gained a glimpse, at least, of Lake Michigan. Within six years after the recovery of Canada, the 1638, 1639. plan was formed of establishing missions, not only among the Algonquins in the north, but south of Lake Relation 1638, 1639. p. 23, 24. Huron, in Michigan, and a1639. p. 23, 24. Huron, in Michigan, and at Green Bay; thus to gain access to the immense regions of the west and the Chap. XX.} north-west, to the great multitude from all nations, whom no one can number; but the Jesuits were too Relation 1640, p. 211. feeble, and too few, to attempt the spiritual conquest of so many countries: they pray for recruits; they invoke the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
e Hurons of Upper Canada were thought to number many more than thirty thousand, perhaps even fifty thousand, souls; yet, according to the more exact enumeration of 1639, they could not Gallatin, 70. have exceeded ten thousand. In the heart of a wilderness, a few cabins seemed like a city; and to the pilgrim, who had walked for we, and beneath, Tanner, 343. and around; he can foretell a drought, or bring rain, Bartram. or guide the lightning; by his spells he can give at- Relation 1638, 1639, p. 162. traction and good fortune to the arrow or the net; he conjures the fish, that dwell in the lakes or haunt the rivers, to suffer themselves to be caught; hoduce of its chase, rather than fail in their fulfilment; the dream must be obeyed, even if it required the surrender of women to a public embrace. Relation 1638, 1639, p. 125. The faith in the spiritual world, as revealed by dreams, was universal. On Lake Superior, the nephew of a Chippewa squaw having dreamed that he saw a Fre