162 QUEBEC AND ITS TENANTS. [1636-46. 



cannon the cross and banner borne at the head of 

 the procession. When all was over, the Governor 

 and the Jesuits rewarded the Indians with a feast. ^ 



Now let the stranger enter the church of Notre- 

 Dame de la Recouvrance, after vespers. It is full, 

 to the very porch: officers in slouched hats and 

 plumes, musketeers, pikemen, mechanics, and la- 

 borers. Here is Montmagny himself; Eepentigny 

 and Poterie, gentlemen of good birth ; damsels of 

 nurture ill fitted to the Canadian woods ; and, min- 

 gled with these, the motionless Indians, wrapped to 

 the throat in embroidered moose-hides. Le Jeune, 

 not in priestly vestments, but in the common black 

 dress of his Order, is before the altar ; and on either 

 side is a row of small red-skinned children listening 

 with exemplary decorum, while, with a cheerful, 

 smiling face, he teaches them to kneel, clasp their 

 hands, and sign the cross. All the principal mem- 

 bers of this zealous community are present, at once 

 amused and edified at the grave deportment, and 

 the prompt, shrill replies of the infant catechu- 

 mens ; while their parents in the crowd grin de- 

 light at the gifts of beads and trinkets with which 

 Le Jeune rewards his most proficient pupils.^ 



We have seen the methods of conversion prac- 

 tised among the Hurons. They were much the 

 same at Quebec. The principal appeal was to 

 fear.^ "You do good to your friends," said Le 

 Jeune to an Algonquin chief, " and you bum your 



1 Le Jeune, Relation, 1639, 3. 



2 Le Jeune, Relation, 1637, 122 (Cramoisy). 



3 Ihid., 1636, 119, and 1637, 32 (Cramoisy). "La crainte est I'auan 

 couriere de la foy dans ces esprits barbares." 



