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Allumette Island. He found means to continue the 

 journey, and at length reached the Huron towns hi 

 a lamentable state of bodily prostration. Daniel, 

 too, was deserted, but fortunately found another 

 party who received him into their canoe. A young- 

 Frenchman, named Martin, was abandoned among 

 tlie Nipissings ; another, named Baron, on reaching 

 tlie Huron country, was robbed by his conductors 

 of all he had, except the weapons in his hands. 

 Of these he made good use, compelling the robbers 

 to restore a part of thek plunder. 



Descending French River, and following the 

 lonely shores of the great Georgian Bay, the canoe 

 which carried Brebeuf at length neared its desti- 

 nation, thirty days after leaving Thi'ee Rivers 

 Before him, stretched in savage slumber, lay the 

 forest shore of the Hurons. Did his spirit sink as 

 he approached his dreary home, oppressed with a 

 dark foreboding of what the future should bring 



love the Indians like brothers, with whom you are to spend the rest of 

 your life. — Never make them wait for you in embarking. — Take a flint 

 and steel to light their pipes and kindle their fire at night; for these little 

 services win their hearts. — Try to eat their sagamite as they cook it, bad 

 and dirty as it is. — Fasten up the skirts of your cassock, that you may 

 not carry water or sand into the canoe. — Wear no shoes or stockings in 

 the canoe ; but you may put them on in crossing the portages. — Do not 

 make yourself troublesome, even to a single Indian. — Do not ask them 

 too many questions. — Bear their faults in silence, and appear always 

 cheerful. — Buy fish for them from the tribes you will pass; and for 

 this purpose take with you some awls, beads, knives, and fish-hooks. 

 — Be not ceremonious with the Indians; take at once what they offer 

 you : ceremony offends them. — Be very careful, when in the canoe, tliat 

 the brim of your hat does not annoy them. Perhaps it would be better 

 to wear your night-cap. There is no such thing as impropriety among 

 Indians. — Remember that it is Christ and his cross that you are seeking ; 

 and if you aim at anything else, you will get nothing but affliction for 

 body and mind. 



