176 THE LABEADOR PENINSULA. chap. xxxi. 



deliverance from a severe and protracted gout for Capitaine 

 de Lutli, ' one of the bravest officers,' says Charlevoix, 

 ' whom the King has ever had in this colony.' 



Should any sceptical reader of the good Fathers Cholenec 

 and Charlevoix suspect that the captain's gout vi^as pro- 

 bably as much relieved by his own fasting as by the 

 good offices of an Ii'oquois nun, let him take warning 

 from the lesson that was mven to the doubtino; curate of 

 La Chine. ' On every anniversary of the death of La 

 Bonne Catherine — for that is the name by which, in 

 deference to the Holy See, she is honoured in Canada — 

 the neighbouring parishes were in the habit of repairing 

 to the church, at tlie Sault St. Louis near Montreal, to 

 perform a solemn mass. The curate of La Chine, M. Eemy, 

 who had recently arrived from France, having been ap- 

 prised of this custom, and that his predecessors had 

 always conformed to it, declared that he did not think 

 himself authorised to sanction, by his presence, a pubHc 

 religious solemnity not ordained by the Church. Those 

 of his parishioners who heard him make this remark, 

 foretold that it would not be long before their new curate 

 would be punished for his refusal ; and, in fact, from that 

 very day M. Eemy fell dangerously sick.' 



The historian, however, happily adds, that the worthy 

 curate, ' perceiving at once the cause of his sudden malady, 

 made a vow to follow the pious example of his pre- 

 decessors, upon which he was immediately restored to 

 healtli.' * 



Baron de la Hontan sums up the results attained by 



* Plalkett's Notes. 



