CHAPTER XXII. 



1645-1651. 

 PRIEST AND PURITAN. 



Miscou. — Tadoussac. — Journeys of De Quen. — Druilletes. — 

 His Winter with the Montagnais. — Influence of the Mis- 

 sions. — The Abenaquis. — Druilletes . on the Kennebec. — 

 His Embassy to Boston. — Gibbons. — Dudley. — Bradford. 



— Eliot. — Endicott. — Erench and Puritan Colonization. 



— Failure of Druilletes's Embassy. — New Regulations. — 

 New- Year's Day at Quebec. 



Before passing to the closing scenes of this 

 Avilderness drama, we will touch briefly on a few 

 points aside from its main action, yet essential to 

 an understanding of the scope of the mission. 

 Besides their establishments at Quebec, Sillery, 

 Three Rivers, and the neighborhood of Lake 

 Huron, the Jesuits had an outlying post at the 

 island of Miscou, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 near the entrance of the Bay of Chaleurs, where 

 they instructed the wandering savages of those 

 shores, and confessed the French fishermen. The 

 island was unhealthy in the extreme. Several of 

 the priests sickened and died; and scarcely one 

 convert repaid their toils. There was a more suc- 



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