CHAPTER VI. 



1634, 1635. 



BREBEUF AND HIS ASSOCIATES. 



The Huron Mission-House. — Its Inmates. — Its Furniture. — Its 

 Guests. — The Jesuit as a Teacher. — As an Engineer. — 

 Baptisms. — Huron Village Life. — Festivities and Sorce- 

 ries. — The DRiiAM Feast. — The Priests accused of Magic. 

 — The Drought and the Red Cross. 



Where should the Fathers make then' abode'? 

 Their first thought had been to establish themselves 

 at a place called by the French Bochelle, the 

 largest and most important town of the Huron 

 confederacy; but Brebeuf now resolved to remain 

 at Ihonatiria. Here he was well known ; and here, 

 too, he flattered himself, seeds of the Faith had 

 been planted, which, with good nurture, would in 

 time yield fruit. 



By the ancient Huron custom, when a man or a 

 family wanted a house, the whole village joined in 

 building one. In the present case, not Ihonatiria 

 only, but the neighboring town of Wenrio also, 

 took part in the work, — though not without the 

 expectation of such gifts as the priests had to 

 bestow. Before October, the task was finished. 



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