22 PAUL IxE JEUNE. [1633. 



hope, that, in some hour of distress, he might touch 

 their hearts, or, by a timely drop of baptismal 

 water, dismiss some dying child to paradise, but 

 chiefly with the object of mastering their language. 

 Pierre had rejoined his brothers ; and, as the hunt- 

 ing season drew near, they all begged the mission- 

 ary to make one of theu' party, — not, as he thought, 

 out of any love for him, but solely with a view to 

 the provisions with which they doubted not he 

 would be well supplied. Le Jeune, distrustful of 

 the sorcerer, demurred, but at length resolved to 



go- 



