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INDEX. 



F. 



Faillon, Abb^, his researches in the 

 early histoiy of Montreal, 193 note; 

 their value, ib. 



Fancamp, Baron de, furnishes money 

 for the undertaking at Montreal, 193 ; 

 one of the purchasers of the island, 

 195. 



Fasts among the Indians, Ixxi. 



" Feast of the Dead," 72. 



Feasts of the Indians, xxxvii. 



Female life among the Hm-ons, xxxiii. 



" Festins d' adieu,'''' 123. 



Festivities of the Hurons, xxxvii. 



Fire, Nation of, attacked by the Neu- 

 tral Nation, 436. 



Fire-arms sold to the Iroquois by the 

 Dutch, 211, 212; given to converts 

 by the French, 269. 



Fish, and lishing-nets, prayers to them, 

 Ixix. 



Fortifications of the Hurons, xxix ; of 

 the Iroquois, ib. note ; of other In- 

 dian tribes, xxx note. 



Fortitude, striking instances of, -81, 250, 

 339, 389. 



French and English colonization com- 

 pared, 328, 329. 



Funeral among the Hurons, 75 ; funeral 

 gifts, 76. 



Fur trade, xlv, 47, 155, 331. 



G. 



Gambling, Indian, xxxvii. 



Gamier, Charles, joins the Huron mis- 

 sion, 86 ; his sickness, ib. ; his char- 

 acter, 99; his letters, 101, 133; his 

 journey to the Tobacco Nation, 140; 

 at the "Huron mission, 370; slain by 

 the Iroquois, 405; his body found, 



406 7iote; his gentle spirit, 370, 407; 

 his absolute devotion to the mission, 



407 note. 



Gamier, Julien, liv note. 



Garreau, missionary among the Hu- 

 rons, his danger, 410. 



Gaspe, Algonquins of, their women 

 chaste, xxxiv. 



George, Lake, its first discoverer, 219; 

 its Indian name, ib. note; called 

 St. Sacrament, 299; a better name 

 proposed, ib. note. 



Gibbons, Edward, welcomes the Jesuit 

 Druilletes to Boston, 325. 



Giflfard, his seigniory of Beauport, 155, 

 157 ; at Quebec, 334. 



Gluttony at feasts, xxxviii; practised 

 as a cure for pestilence. 95. 



Godefroy, Jean Paul, visits New Ha- 

 ven on an embassy from the gover- 

 nor of Canada, 330. 



Goupil, Ren^, a donne of the mission, 

 214 ; made prisoner by the Iroqucus, 

 216; tortured, 217,221; murdered in 

 cold blood, 224. 



Goyogouin, a name for the Cayugas, 

 xlviii note. 



Great Hare, The. See Manabozho. 



Green Bay, visited by the French in 

 1639, 166. 



H. 



Habitations, Indian, xxvi; internal 

 aspect in summer, xxvii ; in winter, 

 xx%'iii. 



Hawenniio, the modern Iroquois name 

 for God, Ixxviii. 



Hubert, Madame, an early resident of 

 Quebec, 2, 15. 



Hell, how represented to the Indians, 

 88, 163 ; pictures of, 163. 



Hiawatha, a deified hero, Ixxvii, 

 Ixxviii. 



Hodenosaunee, the true name of the 

 Iroquois, xlviii note. 



Hotel-Dieu at Quebec founded, 181; 

 one at Montreal, 266. 



Hundred Associates, the, a fur com- 

 pany, its grants of land, 156; their 

 quit-claim of the island of INIontreal, 

 195 ; transfer their monopoly to the 

 colonists, 331. 



Hunters of men, 307. 



Huron mission proposed, 42 ; the difii- 

 culties, 43; motives for the under- 

 taking, 44 ; route to the Huron coun- 

 try, 45; the missionaries bafiled by 

 a stroke of Indian diplomacy, 51; 

 they commence their journey, 63; 

 fatigues of the way, ib. ; reception of 

 the missionaries by the Hurons, 57 ; 

 mission house, 60; methods taken 

 to awaken interest, 61; instructions 

 given, 62; the results not satisfac- 

 tory, 64; the Jesuits made respon- 

 sible for the failure of rain, 68; they 

 gain the confidence of the Huroii 

 people, 70; the mission strength- 

 ened by new arrivals, 85 ; kindness 

 of the Jesuits to the sick, 87 ; their 

 efforts at conversion, 88 ; the Hurons 

 slow to apprehend the subject of a 

 future life, i)9 ; terms of salvation too 

 hard, 90; an elastic morality prac- 

 tised by the Jesuits, 97 ; conversions 

 promoted by supernatural aid, 108; 

 the new chapel at Ossossan^ de- 

 scribed, 111 ; first important success, 



