150 QUEBEC AND ITS TENANTS. [1636. 



de Montmagny, a Knight of Malta, followed by 

 a train of officers and gentlemen. As they all 

 climbed the rock together, Montmagny saw a cru- 

 cifix planted by the path. He instantly fell on 

 his knees before it ; and nobles, soldiers, sailors, 

 and priests imitated his example. The Jesuits 

 sang Te Deum at the church, and the cannon 

 roared from the adjacent fort. Here the new 

 governor was scarcely mstalled, when a Jesuit 

 came in to ask if he would be godfather to an 

 Indian about to be baptized. " Most gladly," re- 

 plied the pious Montmagny. He repaired on the 

 instant to the convert's hut, with a company of 

 gayly apparelled gentlemen; and while the inmates 

 stared in amazement at the scarlet and embroidery, 

 he bestowed on the dying savage the name of Jo- 

 seph, in honor of the spouse of the Virgin and the 

 patron of New France.^ Three days after, he was 

 told that a dead proselyte was to be buried ; on 

 which, leaving the lines of the new fortification he 

 was tracing, he took in hand a torch, De Lisle, 

 his lieutenant, took another, Repentigny and St. 

 Jean, gentlemen of his suite, with a band of sol- 

 diers followed, two priests bore the cor23se, and 

 thus all moved together in procession to the place 

 of burial. The Jesuits were comforted. Champlain 

 himself had not displayed a zeal so edifying.^ 



1 Le Jeune, Relation, 1636, 5 (Cramoisy). "Monsieur le Gouverneur 

 se transporte aux Cabanes de ces pauures barbares, suivy d'une leste 

 Noblesse. Je vous laisse a penser quel estonnement a ces Peuples de 

 voir tant d'ecarlate, tant de personnes bien faites sous leurs toita 

 d'ecorce ! " 



2 Ihid., 83 (Cramoisy). 



