1684 j BR^BEUF'S RECEPTION. 57 



excitement and alarm, dreading the consequences 

 of their deed, had deserted the spot, and built, at 

 the distance of a few miles, a new town, called 

 Ihonatiiia.^ Brebeuf hid his baggage in the woods, 

 including the vessels for the Mass, more precious 

 than all the rest, and began his search for this new 

 abode. He passed the burnt remains of Toanche, 

 saw the charred poles that had formed the frame 

 of his little chapel of bark, and found, as he 

 thought, the spot where Brule had fallen.^ Eve- 

 ning was near, when, after following, bewildered 

 and anxious, a gloomy forest path, he issued upon 

 a wild clearing, and saw before him the bark roofs 

 of Ihonatiria. 



A crowd ran out to meet him. " Echom has 

 come again ! Echom has come again ! " they cried, 

 recognizing in the distance the stately figure, 

 robed in black, that advanced from the border of 

 the forest. They led him to the town, and the 

 whole population swarmed about him. After a 

 short rest, he set out with a number of young 

 Indians in quest of his baggage, returning with it 

 at one o'clock in the morning. There was a cer- 

 tain Awandoay in the village, noted as one of the 

 richest and most hospitable of the Hurons, — a 

 distinction not easily won where hospitality was 



1 Concerning Brule, see " Pioneers of Prance," 377-380. 



2 " le vis pareillement I'endroit ou le pauure Estienne Brule' auoit este 

 barbarement et traitreusement assorame' ; ce qui me fit penser que quelque 

 iour on nous pourroit bien traitter de la sorte, et desirer au moins que ce 

 fust en pourchassant la gloire de N. Seigneur." — Brebeuf, Relation des 

 Hurons, 1635, 28, 29. — The missionary's prognostics were but too well 

 founded. 



