INDEX 



457 



112 ; persecuting spirit aroused, 115 ; 

 the Jesuits in danger, 116; their 

 dailj' life, 129; number of converts 

 in 1638, 132; backsliding frequent, 

 135 ; partial success. 147 ; great sub- 

 sequent success of the mission, 349 ; 

 the mission encounters slander and 

 misrepresentation, 352, 353; pros- 

 porit}^, 366; successful agriculture, 

 ■ib. ; number of ecclesiastics and oth- 

 ers in the Huron mission, 1649, ib. ; 

 the mission removed to an island in 

 Lake Huron, 397; a multitude of 

 refugees, 399 ; their extreme misery, 

 400; the priests fully occupied, 401; 

 the mission abandoned, 415 ; failure 

 of the Jesuit plans in Canada, 446 ; 

 the cause, 447; the consequences, 

 448. See Jesuits. 



(urons, origin of the name, xxxiii 

 note ; their countr}', xx, xxiv, xxv ; 

 had a language akin to the Iroquois, 

 xxiv; their disappearance, ib.; ves- 

 tiges of them still found, xxv; sup- 

 posed population, xxv, xxvi; their 

 habitations, xxvi, xxviii note; ex- 

 travagant accounts, xxvi 7iote ; inter- 

 nal aspect of their huts in summer, 

 xxvii; in Avinter, xxviii; their for- 

 tifications, xxix; their agriculture, 

 XXX ; food, ib.; arts of life, ib.; dress, 

 xxxii ; dress scarcely worn in sum- 

 mer, xxxiii ; female life, ib., xxxv ; 

 an unchaste people, xxxiv; mar- 

 riages, temporary, ib.; shameless con- 

 duct of young people, xxxv note; 

 employments of the men, xxxvi; 

 amusements, ib.; feasts and dances, 

 xxxvii; voracity, xxxviii; canni- 

 balism, xxxix ; practice of medicine, 

 xl; Huron brains, xiiii; the Huron 

 Confederacy, lii; their political or- 



Sanizatiou, ib.; propensity of the 

 [urons to theft, Ixiii, 131"; murder 

 atoned for by presents, Ixi ; proceed- 

 ings in case of mtchoraft, Ixiii ; their 

 objects of worship, Ixix seq.; their 

 conceptions of a future state, Ixxxi ; 

 their burial of the dead, ib.; hostility 

 of the Iroquois, 45, 52, 62; visit 

 Quebec, 46; the scene after their 

 arrival described, 47; their idea of 

 thunder, 69; Huron graves, 71; 

 their origin, ib.; disposal of the 

 dead, 73; "Feast of the Dead," 75 

 seq.; disinterment, 73; mourning, 

 74, 78; funeral gifts, 76; fi-ightful 

 scene, 77; a pestilence, 87; canni- 

 bals, 137 ; attacked by the Iroquois, 

 212, 337; defeat them, 338; torture 

 and bum an Iroquois chief, 339 ; on 

 the verge of ruin, 341; apply for 



help to the Andastes, 342 ; specimen 

 of Huron eloquence, 355; Hurons 

 defeat the Iroquois at Three Rivers. 

 374; fatuity of the Hurons, 379; 

 their towns destroyed, 379 seq.; ruin 

 of the Hurons, 393; the survivors 

 take refuge on Isle St. Joseph, 399 ; 

 their extreme misery, 411 seq.; they 

 abandon the island, 415; endeavor 

 to reach Quebec, 416; the Iroquois 

 waylay them, 417 ; a fight on the 

 Ottawa, ib.; they reach Montreal, 

 418 ; and Quebec, ib.; a Huron trai- 

 tor, 419; a portion of the Hurons 

 retreat to Lake Michigan and the 

 Mississippi, 425; others become in- 

 corporated with the Senecas, 424; 

 their countr^^ desolate, ib.; after- 

 wards known as the Wyandots, 426; 

 a body of the Hurons left at St. Jo- 

 seph destroy a party of Iroquois, 

 427-429; a colony of Hurons near 

 Quebec, 430. 



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Ihonatiria, a Huron village, 57; Br^- 

 beuf takes up his abode there, 59; 

 ruined by the pestilence, 137. 



Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, 

 110. 



Incarnation, Marie de 1', at Tours, 

 174; her unhappy maiTiage, 175; 

 a widow, ib ; self-inflicted austeri- 

 ties, ib.; mystical espousal to Christ, 

 176; rhapsodies, ib.; dejection, 177; 

 abandons her child and becomes a 

 nun, 178; her talents for business, 

 179; her vision, 180; the vision ex- 

 plained as a call to Canada, 181; 

 embarks for that country, ib.; peril- 

 ous voyage, 182; her arduous labors 

 at Quebec, 185 ; her difticulties, 186 ; 

 extolled as a saint, 177, 186. 



Indian population mutable, xix; its 

 distribution, xx; two great families, 

 ib.; superstitions and traditions, 

 Ixvii - Ixxxvii ; dreamers, Ixxxiii; 

 sorcerers and diviners, Ixxxiv, 93; 

 their religion fearful yet puerile, 

 Ixxxviii, 94; an Indian lodge, 141; 

 Indian manners softened by the in- 

 fluence of the missions, 319; Indian 

 infatuation, 336. 



Indians, their arts of life, xxx; amuse- 

 ments, xxxvi; festivals, xxxvii; 

 social character, xlviii; self-control, 

 xlix; influenced by custom, J6.; hos- 

 pitality and generosity, ib. note ; fond 

 of society, 1; their division into clans, 

 li ; the totem, or symbol of the clau, 



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