The Jesuit Relations And Allied Documents Vol 46

Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365492788
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 46 written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 46: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791; Lower Canada, Ottawas, Canadian Interior, 1659-1661 The writer next enumerates the peoples who are stretching out their arms to us, asking for Fathers of our Society to go and instruct them. These tribes extend from Maine to the Missouri River, and from Labrador to Hudson Bay; and missions could be at once opened among them, were it not for the Iroquois, the Canaanites of New France. A mission to the Upper Algonkins (ottawas) has been under taken by Menard, but at the risk of his life; for the Iroquois haunt the rivers, by which alone travel in that vast wilderness is possible. Bishop Laval shows great interest in this enterprise. A letter written by Menard to a friend, upon the eve of his departure, is here given. A chapter is devoted to the burning, at Quebec, of some prisoners captured from the Iroquois. Such fires, however, prove the surest road to heaven so sure are they, that we have scarcely ever seen an Iroquois burned without regarding him as on the way to Paradise; nor have we considered a single one as certainly on that road whom we have not seen pass through this torture. Before their torments, these prisoners are duly instructed and baptized by the Jesuits; the Wolf is changed all at once into a lamb, and enters the fold of Jesus Christ, which he came to ravage. Full details are given of the fear ful tortures inflicted by the Algonkins upon these their hereditary enemies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.