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INDEX. 



B. 



Baptism of dying men, 89, 124; clan- 

 destine, of infants, 96, 97, 116, 117; 

 of an influential Huron, 112 ; condi- 

 tions of baptism, 134; baptisms, 

 number in a year, 136 note. 



Birch-bark used instead of writing- 

 paper, 130. 



Bourgeoys, Marguerite, her character, 

 201; foundress of the school at 

 Montreal, 202. 



Bradford, William, governor of Ply- 

 mouth, kindly entertains the Jesuit 

 Druilletes, 327. 



Brebeuf, Jean de, arrives at Quebec, 

 5, 20, 48; commences his journey to 

 the Huron country, 53 ; suffers great 

 fatigue by the way, 54; his intre- 

 pidity, 54 note, 56; arrives in the 

 Huron country, 56; his previous 

 residence there, ib. ; his misgivings 

 as to his future treatment by the 

 Indians, 57 note ; the Indians build 

 a house for him, 59: the house de- 

 scribed, 60 ; its furniture, ib. ; Bre- 

 beuf witnesses the " Feast of the 

 Dead," 75 ; witnesses a human sacri- 

 fice, 80 seq. ; his uncompromising 

 manner, 90; "the Ajax of the mis- 

 sion," 99; his dealings with beings 

 from the invisible world, 108 ; sees a 

 great cross in the air, 109, 144; his 

 courage, 120; his letter in prospect 

 of martyrdom, 122; harangues the 

 Hurons at Si ftstin ct adieu, 123; com- 

 mences a mission in the Neutral 

 Nation, 143 ; sees miraculous sights, 

 144; at the Huron mission, 370; 

 taken by the Iroquois, 381; his 

 appalling fate, 388; his intrepid 

 character, 390; his skull preserved 

 to this day at Quebec, 391 ; his vis- 

 ions and revelations, 392 note; a 

 saint and a hero, ib. 



Bressani, Joseph, attempts to go to the 

 Hurons, 251 ; taken by the Iroquois, 

 252 ; terrible sufferings from his cap- 

 tors, 253-255; his escape, 256; at 

 the Huron Mission, 370. 



Brul^, Etienne, murdered by the Hu- 

 rons, 56 ; the murder supposed to be 

 avenged by a raging pestilence, 94. 



Bullion, Madame de, founds a hospi- 

 tal at Montreal, 266. 



Burning of captives alive, instances 

 of, xlv note, 80-82, 249, 250, 309, 

 339, 385, 436 note, 439, 441 note. 



Buteux, Jacques, his toilsome journey, 

 421; waylaid by the Iroquois and 

 slain, 422. 



Cannibalism of the Hurons, xxxix, 

 137, of the Miamis, xl; other in- 

 stances, 247. 



Canoes, Indian, xxxi. 



Capuchins, unsuccessful attempt to 

 introduce them into Canada, 159 

 note ; a station of them on the Pe- 

 nobscot, 322. 



Cayugas, one of the Five Nations, 

 xlviii note, liv. See Iroquois. 



Cemeteries of Indians lately opened, 

 79 ; description of them, ih. 



Chabanel, Noel, joins the mission, 105 ; 

 among the Hurons, 370; recalled 

 from St. Jean, 408; his journey, ib.; 

 murdered by a renegade Huron, 409 ; 

 his vow, 410 note. 



Champfleur, commandant at Three 

 Rivers, 277, 285. 



Champlain, Samuel de, resumes com- 

 mand at Quebec, 20 ; his explora- 

 tions, 45 ; introduces the missionaries 

 to the Hurons, 48; assists the mis- 

 sionaries at their departure, 50 ; his 

 death, 149. 



Chatelain, Pierre, joins the mission. 

 86 ; his illness, ib. ; his peril, 126. 



Chaumonot, Joseph Marie, his early 

 life, 101-104; his gratitude to the 

 Virgin, 103, 105; becomes a Jesuit, 

 and embarks for Canada, 105, 181; 

 narrowly escapes death, 124; goes 

 with Brebeuf to convert the Neu- 

 trals, 142; his extreme peril, 145; 

 saved by the interference of Saint 

 Michael, ib.; among the Hurons, 370; 

 with a colony of Hurons, near Que- 

 bec, 431; builds Lorette, 432. 



ChoctaAvs, like the Iroquois, have eight 

 clans, Ivi note. 



Clanship, system of, 1-lii. 



Clock of the Jesuits an object of won - 

 der to the Hurons, 61 ; an object of 

 alarm, 115. 



Colonization, French and English, 

 compared, 328, 329. 



Conde, in his youth writes to Paul Le 

 Jeune, 152. 



Couestogas. See Andastes. 



Converts, how made, 133, 162 seq. 



Couillard, a resident in Quebec, 3, 334, 

 335. 



Councils of the Iroquois, their power. 

 Ivii-lx. 



Council, nocturnal, of the Hurons, 

 relative to the epidemic in 1637, 118. 



Couture, Guillaume, a donn^ of the 

 mission, 214; a prisoner to the Iro- 

 quois, 216; tortured by them, 216, 



