4 NOTRE-DAME DES ANGES. [1634. 



by a sudden bend of the St. Charles. Here lay 

 a canoe or skiiF; and, paddling across the narrow 

 stream, Le Jeune saw on the meadow, two hun- 

 dred yards from the bank, a square inclosure 

 formed of palisades, like a modern picket fort of 

 the Indian frontier.^ Within this inclosure were 

 two buildings, one of which had been half burned 

 by the English, and Avas not yet repahed. It served 

 as storehouse, stable, workshop, and bakery. Op- 

 posite stood the principal building, a structure of 

 planks, plastered with mud, and thatched with long, 

 grass from the meadows. It consisted of one story, 

 a garret, and a cellar, and contained four principal 

 rooms, of which one served as chapel, another as 

 refectory, another as kitchen, and the fourth as a 

 lodging for workmen. The furniture of all was 

 plain in the extreme. Until the preceding year, 

 the chapel had had no other ornament than a 

 sheet on which were glued two coarse engravings ; 

 but the priests had now decorated their altar with 

 an image of a dove representing the Holy Ghost, 

 an image of Loyola, another of Xavier, and three 

 images of the Virgin. Four cells opened from 

 the refectory, the largest of which was eight feet 

 square. In these lodged six priests, while two lay 



1 This must have been very near the point where the streamlet called 

 the River Lairet enters the St. Charles. The place has a triple historic 

 interest. The wintering-place of Cartier in 1535-6 (see "Pioneers of 

 France " ) seems to have been here. Here, too, in 1759, Montcalm's bridge 

 of boats crossed the St. Charles ; and in a large intrenchment, which 

 probably included the site of the Jesuit mission-house, the remnants of 

 his shattered army rallied, after their defeat on the Plains of Abraham. — 

 See the very curious Narrative of the Chevalier Johnstone, published by 

 the Historical Society of Quebec. 



