1633-34.] LE JEUNE AND THE SORCERER. 29 



nel, were gathered the savage crew. He stepped 

 to his place, over recumbent bodies and leggined 

 and moccasined limbs, and seated himself on the 

 carpet of spruce boughs. Here a tribulation 

 awaited him, the crowning misery of his winter- 

 quarters, — worse, as he declares, than cold, heat, 

 and dogs. 



Of the three brothers who had invited him to 

 join the party, one, we have seen, was the hunter, 

 Mestigoit ; another, the sorcerer ; and the thhd, 

 Pierre, whom, by reason of his falling away from 

 the Faith, Le Jeune always mentions as the Apos- 

 tate. He was a weak-minded young Indian, wholly 

 under the influence of his brother, the sorcerer, 

 who, if not more vicious, was far more resolute and 

 wily. From the antagonism of their respective 

 professions, the sorcerer hated the priest, who lost 

 no opportunity of denouncing his incantations, and 

 who ridiculed his perpetual singing and drumming 

 as puerility and folly. The former, being an indif- 

 ferent hunter, and disabled by a disease w^hich he 

 had contracted, depended for subsistence on his 

 credit as a magician; and, in undermining it, Le 

 Jeune not only outraged his pride, but threatened 

 his daily bread.^ He used every device to retort 

 ridicule on his rival. At the outset, he had prof- 



A " le ne laissois perdre aucune occasion de le conuaincre de niaiseria 

 et de puerilite, mettant au iour I'impertinence de ses superstitions : or 

 c'estoit luy arraclier Tame du corps par violence : car comme 11 ne 

 sqauroit plus chasser, il fait plus que iamais du Prophete et du Magicien 

 pour conseruer son credit, et pour auoir les bons morceaux; si bien qu'es- 

 branlant son authorite qui se va perdant tons les lours, ie le touchois a la 

 prunelle de I'oeil/' — Relation, 1634, 66. 



