Jesuit IRelations anb HHiefc ^Documents TRAVELS AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE French Jesuit flissionaries among the Indians OF CANADA AND THE NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN STATES OF THE UNITED STATES 1610=1791 With Numerous Historical, Geographical and Ethno- logical Notes, etc., and an Analytical Index. Under the editorial direction of IReuben <5oR> ftbwaites Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin; editor of "The Wif consin Historical Collections," Withers's " Chronicles of Border Warfare ;" author of " The Colonies, 1492-1750 ; " " Historic Waterways ; " " The Story of Wisconsin ; ' ' etc. An exact verbatim et literatim reprint of the very rare French, Latin, and Italian Originals, both MS. and Printed, accompanied page for page by A COMPLETE ENGLISH TRANSLATION, by JOHN CUTLER COVERT, assisted by HARY SIFTON PEPPER, and others. Illus- trated with numerous facsimiles, portraits, maps, etc. The edition will be limited to 750 numbered sets ; about 60 volumes, 8vo., of about 300 pages each ; price $3.50 pet, per volume. FOR SALE BY California ^e JTranfclm Boofc Store, t>, 35. Ibaferfcorn, prop., legional MILWAUKEE, wis. n acility UCSB LIBRARY COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY THE BURROWS BROTHERS Co. AM, RIGHTS RESERVED. We take pleasure in making the following an- nouncement regarding the publication of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. SEVEN hundred and fifty sets only will be made, direct from type, which will be distributed as each volume is printed; each of these sets will be numbered. The work will be printed at The Imperial Press, on a special make of Dickinson's hand-made deckle-edged paper. It will consist of about 60 vol- umes, 8vo., of about 300 pages each, printed in large type, and bound in polished buckram cloth, uncut, top edges gilt. 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In order that the original pagination may be preserved for reference, each page of the original will be indicated throughout, in both reprint and translation, by Arabic figures within brackets : thus, [156]. Special French compositors will be employed upon the French text, and extraordinary care will be used both in composition and proof reading, that no errors may slip into the work. The French text will be proof- read directly with the original, so that possible errors in transcribing may be corrected. The type will be large and clear, and such as will en- able us to make the pages of both French and English text uniform. The earlier of these Relations have many peculiarities of type ; for example, the early printers used a character like a small "u" placed upon an "o," somewhat like the figure "8" with the top broken out, for a sound peculiar to the Indian dialects which the French "ou" failed to represent satisfactorily. For all OF THE JESUIT RELATIONS. of these "peculiars" special punches have been cut, and the original will be followed with exceeding closeness. The translation will be as nearly literal, and will ad- here as strictly to the original French text, as good English will permit. In cases where punctuation or phraseology make the original text susceptible of differ- ent renderings, the translators indicate the original phraseology in notes showing the word-for-word trans- lation, and very briefly the ground for preferring the translation given. Disputed points are, in all cases, re- ferred to eminent specialists. A general Introduction to the work, by the Editor, will give a helpful summary of the work of the Jesuit Missionaries of New France, in their several fields, clos- ing with an account of the Relations themselves, their bibliographical importance, historic value, etc. Each volume will contain a terse historical and bibli- ographical Preface, giving account of the MSS. or orig- inals from which the reprints contained in the volume are made. A brief biographical sketch of each of the Jesuit Fathers (the authors of the Letters and Relations) will appear in the Notes appended to each volume. Many of these will be the only biographies yet written. This feature will thus give for the first time a complete series of biographical notices of the principal Jesuits of New France. The bibliography of the Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents will be carefully and accurately brought together. The Notes will throw a flood of new light on many a point, hitherto obscure or unintelligible, in the history of the United States and Canada. They will be chiefly Archaeological, Historical, Biographical, Geographical and Ethnological. Obsolete names of Indian Tribes, Translation Introduc- tion by the Editor. History of MSS. and Printed Originals. Biographies of the Jesuit Fathers. Bibliog- raphy. Notes. RE-ISSUE AND TRANSLATION Historical Material. Chiefs, and Localities will be noted with their modern equivalents ; Peculiar Customs, Superstitions, etc., will be explained ; and Obscure References to Persons and Places elucidated. The Notes will be terse in style, and as trustworthy as modern scholarship will allow. In every case, ample references will be given to authorities. Much New The Editor and his staff are accumulating a mass of andValuable valuable and important material, which will be pub- lished for the first time in this work ; much of this has been received from those who have made special re- searches in connection with the Jesuit Relations, as they affect the history and archaeology of different lo- calities and States. Of great value and interest are notes and letters re- ceived from distinguished members of the Society of Jesus, both in the United States and in Canada. Par- ticularly helpful has been the cooperation of the Rev. Arthur E. Jones, S. J., the distinguished archivist of St. Mary's College, Montreal, than whom perhaps no better authority in this field of American history now exists ; in his charge are the original MSS. of many of the Jesuit Relations and Letters of the XVII. and XVIII. centuries. The last volume will contain a carefully compiled Analytical Index to the entire series. The Illustrations will be reproduced by the best of modern processes, and will be printed on plate-paper the maps on special map-paper. The Illustrations will comprise : I. Reproductions of the title-pages (with their pe- culiar devices) of the entire original Cramoisy Series of the Relations (printed in Paris, 1632-72), and of all other original editions whose title-pages are obtainable. II. Facsimiles of Original MSS. of Marquette, Le Jeune, De Quen, Jogues, Allouez, Dablon, La Brosse, Index. Portraits, Maps, Facsimiles, etc. OF THE JESUIT RELATIONS. Charlevoix, Potier, Andre", Gamier, Raguenau, Coquart, Lalemant, Vaillant, Vimont, Druilletes, and others. III. Portraits of all of those Jesuit missionaries in New France of whom authentic portraits have been preserved. IV. Reproductions of all maps contained in the orig- inal editions, and the addition of several new ones, in- cluding a large general map of New France, showing the location of the Missions, Portages, Tribes, etc., etc. V. Other illustrations of interest. These Relations give the earliest, and, for the XVII. century, the only authoritative accounts of the many Indian tribes among whom the Jesuit missionaries la- bored their manners, customs, rites and ceremonies, foods, modes of hunting, etc., etc. The following tribes and families are among the many concerning whom the Relations treat : Abenakis, Alibamons, Arkansans, Atiwandaronks, Beavers, Berseamites, Cahokias, Cayugas, Cherokees, Chickesaws, Chippewas, Choctaws, Creeks, Crees, Da- kotas, Eries, Foxes, Genesees, Hurons, Illinois, Iro- quois, Mascoutens, Menominees, Miamis, Micmacs, Mohawks, Montagnais, Neuters, Nipissings, Oneidas, Onondagas, Ottawas, Oumaniweks, Papinachois, Penob- scots, Peorias, Petuns, Porcupines, Pottawattomies, Sacs, Semiiioles, Senecas, Sioux, Susquehannas, Tamaroas, Winnebagoes, Wyandots, Yazoos. The travels and explorations of the early Jesuit mis- sionaries were principally in the Hudson Bay Country, Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Que- bec ; the present states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ken- tucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Wisconsin ; lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, Superior, Nipissing, St. Indian Tribes. Principal States and I/ocalities Explored by the Jesuit Mission- RE-ISSUE AND TRANSLATION Contents of the Series. John, and Simcoe ; the rivers Mississippi, St. John and St. Lawrence ; around Chequamegon Bay, Georgian Bay, Green Bay, Keweenan Bay, Bay of Quinte, etc. This publication will embrace : I. The entire series of original Cramoisy Jesuit Re- lations (Paris, 1632-72). II. The Shea-Cramoisy Series of Reprints. III. The O'Callaghan Series of Reprints and Fac- similes. IV. Le Journal des J estates, public* par MM. les Abbe's Laverdire et Casgrain (Quebec, 1871). V. All portions of Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, that bear on the French Missions in North America. VI. Carayon's Premiere Mission des J' suites au Cana- da (Paris, 1864). VII. Relations In'edites de la Nouvelle-France, 1672- 1679 (2 vols., Paris, 1861). VIII. Many privately-printed Letters and Relations, collected by Fathers Martin and Jones, Mr. James Lenox, and others. IX. Much hitherto-unpublished Material, from MSS. in the Archives of St. Mary's College, Mont- real, and elsewhere. Also several Relations (such as Bressani's, 1645-49) and other Docu- ments not ordinarily cited in bibliographies of the subject. Chronolog- The following is a list of the contents of this com- ical Order of pieted series, arranged in the CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Publication. Some few unp^iblished manuscripts may yet be added. 1610. La Conversion des Savvages qui ont est baptizes en la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Jean Millot, 1610. 1610. Lettre missive tovcliant la conversion et baptestne du grand Sagamos de la Nouvelle-France. Envoye"e du Port-Royal axi Sr. de la Tronchaie, 28 juin, 1610. Paris, Jean Regnovl, 1610. OF THE JESUIT RELA TIONS. 9 1611. Biard. Lettre du P. Pierre Biard. Dieppe, 21 Janvier, 1611. 1611. Biard. Lettre da P. Pierre Biard. Port Royal, 10 juin, 1611. 1611. Masse. Lettre da P. Ennemoiid Masse. Port-Royal, 10 juin, 1611. 1611. Biard. Lettre du P. Pierre Biard. Port-Royal, n juin, 1611. 1611-13. Juvencius. Cauadicae Missionis Relatio, auctore Josepho Juvencio. Romae, 1710. 1611-13. Juvencius. De Regione et Moribus Canadensium seu Bar- barorum Novae Franciae, auctore Josepho Juvencio. Romac, 1710. 1612. Biard. Lettre du P. Biard. Port-Royal, 31 jauvier, 1612. 1612. Biard. Missio Canadeusis. Epistola ex Portu-regali in Acadia, a R. Petro Biardo. Dilingas, 1611 (sic). 1612. Poutrincourt. Relation derniere du Sieur de Poutrincourt. Paris (1612). 1613-14. Relatio Rerum Gestarum in Nova-Francica Missione. Lugduni, CIo.IoC.XIIX. 1614. Biard. Lettre du P. Biard au T. R. P. Ge"ne"ral. Amiens, 6 mai, 1614. 1616. Biard. Relation de la Nouvelle-France par le P. Pierre Biard. Lyons, 1616. 1625. Lallemant. Lettre au Sieur de Champlain, de Kebec, 28 juillet, 1625. 1625. Lallemaut. Lettre au R. P. Prouincial, de Kebec, 28 juillet, 1625. 1626. Lallemant. Lettre au T. R. P. Mutio Vitelletschi de la Nouvelle-France. i aout, 1626. 1627. Lallemant. Lettre du P. Charles rAllemant, SupeYieur de la mission de Canadas. Paris, 1627. 1629. Lallemant. Lettre du P. rAllemant de la Nouvelle-France, 22 novembre, 1629. 1632. Le Jeune. Brieve Relation du Voyage de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1632. 1633. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1634. 1634. Le Jeune. Lettre de Quebec, 1634. 1634. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1635- 1635. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1636. 1636. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1637. 1637. Bre*beuf. Lettre du P. Jean de Bre"beuf, de la Residence de Saint-Joseph. 20 rnai, 1637. 1637. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Rouen, Boullen- ger, 1638. io RE-ISSUE AND TRANSLATION 1638. Bre'beuf. Lettre du P. Jean de Bre'beuf, de la Residence de Saint-Joseph, 1638. 1638. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1638. 1639. Peron. Lettre du P. Franjois du Peron au Joseph-Imbert du Peron, son frre. Au bourg de la Conception de Notre-Dame, 27 avril, 1639. 1639. Chaumonot. Lettre du P. Joseph-Marie Chaumonot. Kebec, 7 aout, 1639. 1639. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1640. 1640. Chaumonot. Lettre du P. J.-M. Chaumonot du pays des Hurons. 24 mai, 1640. 1640. Chaumonot. Lettre du P. J.-M. Chaumonot du pays des Hurons. 26 mai, 1640. 1640. Chaumonot. Lettre du P. J.-M. Chaumonot, de Sainte-Marie aux Hurons. 3 aout, 1640. 1640. Vimont. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1641. 1640-41. Vimont. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1642. 1641. Bre'beuf. Extrait d'une lettre du P. Jean de Brebeuf. Quebec, 20 aout, 1641. 1642. Vimont. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1643. 1642-43. Vimont Relation de la Nonvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1644. 1643. Jogues. Lettre du P. Isaac Jogues, du village des Iroquois, 30 juin, 1643. 1643. Brebeuf. Lettre du P. Jean de Bre'beuf, des Trois-Rivires, 23 septembre, 1643. 1643-44. Vimont. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1645- 1644-45. Vimont. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1646. 1645. Lallemant Estat du Pays lorsque i'y arrive", i septembre, 1645. 1645. Journal des Je*suites, octobre a de"cembre, 1645. 1645-46. Lallemant. Relation de la Nouvelle - France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1647. 1645-49. Bressani. Breve Relatione d'alcune missioni nella Nuova Francia. Marcerata, 1653. 1646. Jogues. Novum Belgium, par R. P. Isaac Jogues. 1646. Journal des Je"suites, Janvier a de'cembre, 1646. 1647. Garnier. Lettre du P. Charles Garnier de Sainte-Marie des Hurons, 3 mai, 1647. OF THE JESUIT RELATIONS. ir 1647. Lallemant. Relation de la Nouvelle-France, sur le Grand Fleuve de St. Laurens. Paris, Cramoisy, 1648. 1647. Journal des Je"suites, Janvier a de"cembre, 1647. 1647-48. Lallemant. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1649. 1648. Bre"beuf. Lettre du P. Jean Bre"beuf, de Sainte-Marie aux Huron s, 2 juin, 1648. 1648. Journal des Jsuites, Janvier a de"cembre, 1648. 1648-49. Ragueneau. Relation de la Mission aux Hurons. Paris, Cramoisy, 1650. 1649. Ragueneau. Lettre du P. Paul Ragueneau, de Sainte-Marie aux Hurons, i mars, 1649. 1649, Buteux. Lettre du P. Jacques Buteux, des Trois-Rivieres, 21 septembre, 1649. 1649, Journal des Je"suites, Janvier a de*cembre, 1649. 1649-50. Ragueneau. Relation de la Mission aux Huros et aux pais plus bas de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy ', 1651. 1650. Ragueneau. Lettre du P. Paul Ragueneau, de Sainte-Marie aux Hurons, 13 mars, 1650. 1650. Journal des Je"suites, Janvier a de"cembre, 1650. 1650-51. Ragueneau. Relation de la Nouvelle - France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1652. 1650-51. Dreuillettes. Narre" du Voyage faict pour la Mission Abnoquiois et des Connaissances tirez de la Nouvelle-Angle- terre. Paris, 1652. 1651. Dreuillettes. Epistola Rev. P. Gabrielis Dreuillettes. s.l.eta, 1651. Lettre des Associe"s de la Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France, an T. R. P. Ge'ne'ral. Paris, juin, 1651. 1651. Journal des Je"suites, Janvier a ddcembre, 1651. 1651-52. Ragueneau. Relation de la Nouvelle - France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1653. 1652. Journal des Je"suites, fdvrier a de"cembre, 1652. 1652-53. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle - France. Paris, Cramoisy ', 1654. 1653. Progressus Fidei Catholicae in Novo Orbe, apud Joannem Kinchium. (Such portion as relates to Canada). 1653. Journal des Je"suites, Janvier a decembre, 1653. 1653-54. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle - France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1655. 1654. Journal des Je*suites, Janvier a fe"vrier, 1654. J 655. Copie de deux Lettres envoides de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1656. 1655-56. Jean de Quens. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1657. 12 RE-ISSUE AND TRANSLATION 1655-56. Mort du Frre Li6geois. (From Journal des Je'suites). 1656. Le Mercier. Journal des Je'suites, octobre a decembre, 1656. 1656-57. Lejeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- moisy, 1658. J 657. Journal des Je'suites, Janvier a de'cembre, 1657. 1657-58. Ragueneau. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- moisy, 1659. 1658. Journal des Je'suites, Janvier a decembre, 1658. ^659. Franois de Laval-Montmorency, e"veque de Pe'tre'e. Lettre au T. R. P. Goswin Nickel. Quebec, aout, 1659. 1659. Lallemant. Lettres envoides de la Nouvelle-France au Re- nault. Paris, 1660. 1659. Lallemant. Lettres envoie'es de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1660. 1659. Journal des Jesuites, Janvier a decembre, 1659. 1659-60. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1661. 1660. Journal des Jesuites, Janvier a decembre, 1660. 1660-61. Lejeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- moisy ', 1662. 1661. Chaumonot. Lettre du P. J.-M. Chaumonot. Qudbec, 20 octobre, 1661. 1661. Journal des Jesuites, Janvier a ddcembre, 1661. 1661-62. Lallemant. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- moisy, 1663. 1662. Journal des Jesuites, Janvier a de'cembre, 1662. 1662-63. Lallemant. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- moisy, 1664. 1663. Relation de la Nouvelle-France, contenant le tremblement de terre e'pouuentable, s. I. et a. 1663. Journal des Jesuites, Janvier a decembre, 1663. 1663-64. Lallemant. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- moisy, 1665. 1664. Histoire Veritable et Natvrelle des Mceurs et Productions dn Pays de la Nowelle-France. Paris, Lambert, 1664. 1664. Journal des Jesuites, Janvier a novembre, 1664. 1664-1665. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1666. 1665. Journal des Jesuites, Janvier a de'cembre, 1665. 1665-66. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- moisy, 1667. 1666. Journal des Je'suites, Janvier a de'cembre, 1666. 1666-67. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- moisy, 1668. 1667. Journal des Je'suites, Janvier a de'cembre, 1667. OF THE JESUIT RELATIONS. 13 1667-68. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle-Frauce. Paris, Cra- moisy, 1669. 1668. Journal des Jsuites, Janvier a juin, 1668. 1668-69. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1670. 1669-70. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- moisy, 1671. 1670-71. Dablon. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- moisy, 1672. 1671-72. Dablon. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- moisy, 1673. 1672-73. Dablon. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. 1673. Nicholas. Memoire pour un Missionaire qui ira aux Sept- Isles, par P. F. Louis Nicholas. MS. 1673. Nouvel. Lettre du P. Nouvel, SupeYieur de la Mission des Outaonais, ecrite le 29 mai, 1673, de Sainte-Marie-du-Sault. 1673. Bruyas. Lettre e"crite de Tionnontoguen par le P. Bruyas, Superieur des Missions iroquoises, 12 juin, 1673. 1673. Lamberville. Lettre dcrite de Tethiroguen par le P. de Lam- berville, 9 septembre, 1673. 1673-74. Dablon. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. 1673-75. Marquette. Recit des Voyages et des De"couvertes de P. Marquette ; La Continuation de ses Voyages par P. Allouez : et Le Journal Autographe du P. Marquette en 1674-75. 1673-79. Dablon. Relation de la Nouvelle-Frauce. 1674. Dalmas. Account (Sept. 24), by P. F. Antoine Dalmas to Claude Dablon, of expedition of observation around Island of Montreal. MS. 1674. Dablon. Lettre du P. Claude Dablon, Superieur des Missions du Canada, au R. P. Pinette. Quebec, 24 octobre, 1674. 1675. Dablon. Etat present des Missions en la Nouvelle-France, en 1675. 1676-77. Relation de la Nouvelle-France, selon MS. original restant a I'Universite Laval. 1677-78. Lamberville. Relation des anne"es 1677-78, et re"cit des Voyages et Decouvertes de Marquette. 1684. Bigot. Copie d'une lettre dcrite par P. Jacques Bigot, de la Mission de Sainct-Francois- de-Sales. 1684. Bigot. Relation de la Mission Abnaquise de Saint-Joseph- de-Sillery, et de la Nouvelle Mission de Saint-Fran?ois-de-Sales. 1685. Bigot. Relation de la Mission Abnaquise de Sainct-Joseph- de-Sillery ct de Sainct-Francois-de-Sales. Juliet, 1685. 1685. Bigot. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. 8 nov. 1685. MS. 1686. Chauchetiere. Narre" Annuel de la Mission du Sault depuis la fondation iusqu'a 1'an 1686. MS. i 4 RE-ISSUE AND TRANSLATION 1688. Jean de St. Valier (Eveque de Quebec). Relation des Mis- sions dans la Nouvelle France. Paris, 1688. 1688. Chaumonot. Vie de, dcrite par lui-meme. 1688-93. Chaumonot. Suite de la Vie, par un Pere de la meme Compagnie. 1688-93. Chollenec. Lettre du P. Chollenec au P. Jean-Baptiste dw Halde. 1690-91. Milet. Relation de sa captivite" parmi les Onneiouts. 1693-94. Gravier. Relation de la Mission de rimmacule*e Concep- ception au Pays des Ilinois. 1694-95. Marest. Lettre du P. Gabriel Marest au P. de Lamber- ville. 1696. Relation des Affaires du Canada, en 1696. 1696. De la Mission Iroquoise du Sault St. Fran9ois Xavier, en 1696. 1696. Gravier. De la Mission Illinoise en 1696. 1697. Gravier. Lettre du P. Jacques Gravier a Monseigneur de Laval, le 17 septembre, 1697. 1699. Montigni. Lettre de M. de Montigni au Rev. P. Bruyas, 23 avril, 1699. 1699. Marest. Lettre du P. Gabriel Marest a un Pere de la Com- pagnie, du Pays des Illinois, 29 avril, 1699. 1699. Binneteau. Lettre du P. Julien Binneteau, du Pays des Illi- nois, 1699. 1699. Bigot. Lettre du P. Jacques Bigot, du Pays des Abnaquis, 1699. 1700. Marest. Lettre du P. Gabriel Marest, 1700. 1700. Montigny, St. Cosme, et Thaumur de la Source. Relation de la Mission du Mississipi du Se"niinaire de Qu6bec. 1700. Gravier. Relation du Voyage depuis le pays des Illinois jus- qu'a 1'embouchure du Mississipi. 1701. Bigot. Relation de la Mission des Abnaquis a 1'Acadie. 1702. Chaigneau. Lettre du P. L. Chaigneau au Rev. P. de Lam- berville, en 1702. 1702. Relation du Destroit, 1702. 1702. Bigot. Relation de la Mission Abnaquise de Saint-Francois- de-Sales. 1708. Gravier. Lettre sur les affaires de la Louisiane, 23 feVrier, 1708. 1712. Marest. Lettre du P. Gabriel Marest au P. Germon, aus Cas- caskias, 9 novembre, 1712. 1715. Chollenec. Lettre du P. Chollenec au P. Augustin le Blanc, au Sault de St. Louis, 27 aout, 1715. 1722. Rasles. Lettre du P. Sebastien Rasles, a son neveu, a Nan- ran tsouak, 15 octobre, 1722. OF THE JESUIT RE L ATI OX X. 15 1722. Loyard. Sur 1'^tat present des Abnaquis, par F. Jean- Baptiste Loyard. MS. 1723. Rasles. Lettre du P. Sdbastien Rasles, a son frere, a Na- rautsouak, 12 octobre, 1723. 1724. La Chasse. Lettre du P. de la Chasse. Quebec, 29 octobre, 1724. 1727. Poisson. Lettre du P. du Poisson auP. Patouillet. 1727. Poisson. Lettre du P. du Poisson, missionaire aux Akensas, 3 octobre, 1727. 1730. Laure. Mission de Saguenay, 1720-1730, par R. P. Pierre Laure, 13 mars, 1730. MS. 1730. Le Petit. Lettre du P. le Petit au P. d'Avaugour. A la Nou- velle-Orleans, 12 juillet, 1730. 1730-45. The Aulneau Letters from the original French MSS. re- cently discovered, and which are now being arranged for this work. MS. 1745. Avond. Lettre du P. Louis Avond. LaRochelle, 24 juin, 1745. 1749. Catalogus Personarum et Officiorum Missiones Americae Sep- tentrionalis in Nova Francia. MS. 1750. Vivier. Lettre du P. Vivier, aux Illinois, 8 juin, 1751. 1750. Vivier. Lettre du P. Vivier, aux Illinois, 17 novembre, 1750. 1756. Catalogus Personarum et Officiorum Provincise Franciae So- cietatis jsu. Exeunte anno 1756. Missiones Americae Septen- trionalis in Nova Francia. MS. 1757. Lettre du Pere Missionaire chez les Abnakis : de Saint-Fran - ?ois, 21 octobre, 1757. 1758. Watrin. Letter to the Propaganda, giving account of the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Mississippi Valley. MS. 1791. Plessis. Letter of Bp. Plessis, referring to sickness of Father Well, the last Jesuit of Montreal. MS. This work will, for the first time, place within the Indispens* reach of students, Documents of the highest Historical ble to Public Importance, hitherto practically unavailable; and, for il l . *' le ^ the first time, a complete translation of the same. The societies Analytical Index, which is to accompany the series, will Public Insti- be of the utmost value as an aid in historical research. tutions, In consideration of the many new and valuable features * u en . ts o) J American embodied, and the superb mechanical execution, we History, etc. feel that it is a work that will especially appeal to Stu- dents of American History, Public Libraries, Historical Societies, Public Institutions, and Lovers of Fine Books. 16 RE-ISSUE AND TRANSLATION What Historians and Reviewers say of The Jesuit Relations : Parkman. " The Relations of the Jesuits appeal equally to the spirit of re- ligion and the spirit of romantic adventure. . . They hold a high place as authentic and trustworthy historical documents. They are very scarce [1867], and no complete collection of them exists in America." Bancroft. "The history of the Jesuit Missions is connected with the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French America. Not a cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." Charlevoix. " There is no other source to which we can resort to learn the progress of religion among the Indians and to know those nations. . . Of the Apostolic labors of the missionaries, they give very edi- fying accounts." Charlevoix, in 1743. Shea. " The Jesuits in their Relations give much information as to the progress of geographical discovery. The resources and fauna of the country, the Indian nations, their languages, manners and cus- toms their wars and vicissitudes." Martin. " These Relations are sometimes the only source of the history of Canada." Father Felix Martin, S.J. Kip. "There is no page of our country's history more touching and romantic than that which records the labors and sufferings of the Jesuit Missionaries." Winsor. " That series of wonderful letters known as the Jesuit Relations. Those reports, for forty years or more, supplied the most that was known of life in the Canadian wilds to the great mass of French readers." Kingsford. " No modern newspaper correspondent ever made greater efforts more favorably to represent the cause he was advertising. The whole of the Relations are marked by extraordinary literary ability." Field's " These Relations, for many years looked upon through the haze of Indian Bib- sectarian distrust, were lightly esteemed by the students of Ameri- liography. can history, but the more their character and statements were inves- tigated; the more important and valuable they appeared. They have become the sources from which we must draw almost all the historic material of NCT.U York and Canada during the first century and a half of their exploration by Europeans." The Nation. "The thirty- nine volumes produced onward from 1632 embody the observations of able and well trained men, often the first explorers of a terra incognita, and always snappers-up of significant trifles unconsidered by others. A mass of material to serve for the history of the New Dominion in its earliest period was thus accumulated and fastened in a sure place. This treasure has no parallel in any OF THE JESUIT RELATIONS. one of our thirteen colonies. Nor has it been paralleled in subse- quent Canadian history. . . . Gleanings from the Relations are early traceable, even in Protestant writers, but the preeminent value of those documeu ts was not plain till within the last half century. It began to dawn on Sparks and Bancroft, and was still more clear to Parkman. Meantime, the editio princeps (called Cramoisy from the name of the publisher) was either entombed in European libraries, or worn out in the hands of private owners. The series in its en- tirety baffled the endeavors of many collectors, no matter how long their p\irses. . . . Hitherto, the Relations have remained in the origi- nal French, and hence continue to be a sealed book to all students whose linguistics have not carried them further than the novels of Zola. Accordingly, no news can be more welcome to students of history than the prospectus of a Cleveland publisher that he has in a good state of forwardness a complete re-issue of the Jesuit Relations. Here will appear the original French, and, page by page, an English translation by a scholar who has made a life study of the French, and especially the Canadian dialect, of the seventeenth century. This edition of 750 copies will be illustrated by every species of note which may best elucidate the text; it will include Relations of a kindred character not in the Cramoisys ; it will abound in maps for lack of which the journeys described have been obscure ; it will pre- sent portraits of all worthies in the Relations whose lineaments are known, and will be especially rich in facsimiles of their most mem- orable writings. This historic boon fitly comes from Cleveland, midway between the east and west limits of the Jesuits, and under the editorship of Reuben Gold Thwaites, Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society, which stands without a peer in the West, and possibly in the East, as a quarry of material for building up the fabric of northwestern history." March ig, i8g6. " Mr. Reuben Gold Thwaites is an ideal editor for such a work [Withers's 'Chronicles of Border Warfare '] ; a trained student and scholar, the two words are not synonymous, he is one of that band of Western historians who, during the last decade, have opened an entirely new field of historical study." Theodore Roose- velt, in the American Historical Review, vol. /, p. 170. " Few historical documents pertaining to Canada and our north- ern frontier are more valued. They comprise letters written from the interior by Jesuit Missionaries among the Indians two and three centuries ago, and, although used by Parkman, Bancroft, and many other writers, have never been translated before. It has remained for the Cleveland firm to undertake to make the work accessi- ble to general readers of English for the first time." January 22, 1896. American Historical Review. The New York Times. i8 RE-ISSUE AND TRANSLATION The Catholic "As throwing more light upon the early history of the settlement Record, of Canada than any other publication : we mean the Jesuit Rela- London, tions, from which all the historians who have written on the early OnL history of Canada have derived most of their information. The details of these occurrences are given in the Jesuits' Letters, and much information which cannot be elsewhere found concerning the aborigines, and the French settlement of that early date. The Jes- uit Fathers wrote learnedly and graphically . . . and a correct idea of their adventures, as well as of the condition of New France in the early part of the seventeenth century, can only be derived by reading the original. . . One of the learned Jesuits translates and reports a speech made to Governor Champlain by a chief, pronounc- ing it worthy of the schools of Aristotle or Cicero." Nov. /<5, fSof. The "Only for the Jesuit Relations, the letters of the ' black gowns,' Buffalo Post we should hardly know what the savage actually was before the Express. white man had idealized him into a creation of the imagination like Cooper's Indians and that of our early poets as a rule. They soon became an authority even as early as 1688 ( the genuine series began in 1632) when Denonville searched them for proof that France had first right to all the country south of the Ontario, the unofficial record of the Relations supporting him in his lack of doc- umentary evidence." October 7, 1895. The Buffalo "The Jesuit Relations form the source from which all our histori- Courier. ans have taken their account of the region stretching from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the head of Lake Superior, as it was in the early years after the discovery of America. Unlike Herod- otus, they did not report for facts what they had merely heard, but proved all things before committing themselves to paper. In these letters, and in those of the Recollects or Franciscans, is found the earliest account of the country of the Neuter Indians through which the great river Niagara flowed." October 20, SAMPLE PAGES 44 LES RELATIONS DES JESUITES. [Vol.. 10. manage, me vint dire Nicanis, mon bien-ayme', la Cha- louppe eft perdue, les vents qui 1'ont enleuee la briferont centre les roches qui nous enuironnent de tous coftez. Qui n'euft entr en verue centre ce Renegat, dont la negligence nous iettoit dans des peines inexplicables, veu qu'il y auoit quantite* de paquets dans noftre bagage, & beaucoup d'enfans a porter. Mon hofte cependant, tout barbare & tout fauuage qu'il eft, ne fe troubla point a cet accident, ains craignant que cela ne rn'attriftaft, il me dit, Nicanis, mon bien-ayme", n'es-tu point fafch de cefte perte, qui nous caufera de grands trauaux ? ie n'en fuis pas bien ayfe, luy, repartif-ie, ne t'en attrifte point, me fit-il : car la fafcherie ameine la triftefle, & la trif- tefle ameine la maladie, Petrichtich n'a point d'efprit, s'il m'euft voulu fecourir ce malheur ne fuft point furuenu, voyla tous les reproches qu'on luy fit. Veritablement cela me confond, que 1'intereft de la fante arrefte la cholere, & la fafcherie d'vn Barbare, & que la loy de Dieu, que fon bon plaifir, que 1'efpoir de fes grandes recompenfes, que la crainte de fes [223] chaftimens, que noftre propre paix & confolation ne puifle feruir de bride a 1'impatience & a la cholere d'vn Chreftien. Au malheur fufdit en furuint vn autre, nous auions outre la Chaloupe vn petit Canot d'e"corce, la maree fe grofllflant plus qu'a 1'ordinaire par le foufle des vents nous le de*roba, nous voila prifonniers plus que iamais, ie ne vis ny larmes ny plaintes, non pas mefme parmy les femmes, fur le dos defquelles ce defaftre tomboit plus particulierement, a raifon qu'elles font comme les beftes de voiture, portant ordinairement le bagage des Sauuages, au contraire tout le monde fe mit a lire. Le iour venu, car ce fut la nuict que la tempefte com- mit ce larcin, nous courufmes tous fur les riues du fleuue, pour apprendre par nos yeux des nouuelles de noftre pauure Chaloupe, & de noftre Canot, nous vifrnes I A 000 545 722 1 1610-12.] THE JESUIT RELATIONS. 65 living. Further back into the country, above the Ar- mouchiquois, are the Iroquois, also a stationary people, because they cultivate the land, from which they har- vest buckwheat (sarrasin), beans, edible roots ; in short, all that we have said of the above-named Armouchi- quois ; indeed, even more, for, from necessity, they draw their sustenance from the earth, being far from the sea.* Nevertheless, they have a great 5 lake of wonderful ex- tent, about sixty leagues, around which they are en- camped. In this lake there are large and beautiful islands, inhabited by the Iroquois, who are a great people ; the further we go into the country the more we find it inhabited, so much so (if we are to believe the Spaniards) that in the country called New Mexico, very far beyond the said Iroquois, in the direction of the south-west, there are cities, and houses three and four stories high ; and even domesticated cattle, from which they have named a certain river Rio de las Vacas, 7 or Cow River, because they saw cows grazing in large numbers on its banks ; and this country is directly to north, more than five hundred leagues from Old Mexico, near the end, I believe [256] of the great lake of the Cana- dian River, which (according to the report of the sav- ages) is a thirty days' journey in length. I believe that robust and hardy men could live among those people, and do great work for the advancement of the Christian religion. But as to the Sotiriquois 10 and the Eteche- mins, who are nomadic and divided, they must be made sedentary by the cultivation of the land thus obliging them to remain in one place. For anyone who has taken pains to cultivate a piece of land does not easily abandon it. He strives zealously to keep it. But I think that the execution of this plan will be very slow unless we take hold of it with more zeal, and unless a King or some rich prince takes this cause in hand, University of California Library Los Angeles This book is DUE on the last date stamped below. 310/85 Fienewal: 15-9188 REC'D YR HOV 1 2005 UCSB LIBRARY