EXPLORATIONS IN LABRADOR: 



CHAPTEE XXI. 



THE MONTAGNAIS, OR THE TSHE-TSI-UETIX-EUERNO, THE 

 PEOPLE OF THE XORTH-NORTH-EAST. 



Early History of the Indian Races inhabiting the Valley of the St. 

 Lawrence — Jacques Cartier — The Village of Ilochelaga — Cham- 

 plain — Tradition respecting Ilochelaga — ■ The Inhabitants of Ilo- 

 chelaga — Algonkins — Discovery of the Ruins of Hochelaga in 

 1800 — Antiquity of. the Village — Indian Relics — Jesuit Account 

 of Hochelaga and its Fate — The Algonkins of the St. Lawrence 

 Valley return to a Xomadic Life — Indian Relics found near 

 Brockville — Copper Rings — The Moutagnais, or Tshe-tsi-uetin- 

 euerno — Indian Dance on the Saugenay — Number of the Mou- 

 tagnais near Quebec in 1632 — The Ne-e-no-il-no, or Perfect 

 People — The Crees — Paul le Jeime — Customs of the Montagiiais 

 — Their former Cruelty to Prisoners — Their Wars — Their Super- 

 stitions — Summer and Winter — Spirits — The Kichi-kouai — The 

 Wife of the Manitou, or Spirit of Evil — Belief in the Spiritual 

 Existence of all Material Things — Shadows and Souls — The 

 Conjuror's Reply to Paul le Jeune — The Vapour Bath — The 

 Conjuror's Visions in the Bath — Fasting — Superstitions respect- 

 ing Bones — Bear-flesh — The Whiskey Jack — Respect of the 

 Montagnais for their Conjurors — Wide Prevalence of the Belief 

 in Witchcraft at this Period — Influence of the Conjuror over the 

 Indian Mind — Qualities of the Montag-nais — Their Feasts — 

 Mode of conducting their Feasts — Manner of boiling Meat — 

 Their Winter Life — Former Numbers of the Montagnais — The 

 Oumamiwek — Pere Henri Nouvel — Communication with Hud- 

 son's Bay — A Dialogue — Pere Albauel — First Voyage by 

 Rupert's River to Hudson's Bay — Sorcerers — Lake St. John, a 

 great Indian Rendezvous — The Montagnais after the Retirement of 

 the Jesuits — Cartwright's Description of the Labrador Montagnais. 



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