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INDEX 



natural beings, Ixix; extensive in 

 its meaning, Ixx; process for ob- 

 taining a guardian nianitou, ih. 



Marie, a Christian Algonquin, her ad- 

 ventures and sutFerings, 309-313. 



Marriage among the Hurons often tem- 

 porary and experimental, xxxiv. 



Mass, neglect of the, a punishable 

 offence, 154, 157. 



Masse, 5, 20; "le P^re Utile," ib.; his 

 death, 260. 



Medical practice among the Indians, 

 xli, xlii no/e ; Ixxxiv, 66. 



" Medicine," or Indian charms, Ixxi. 



'Medicine-bags," Ixxi; "medicine- 

 men," or sorcerers, Ixxxiv, Ixxxv, 

 32-38; a "medicine-feast," 66; the 

 religion taught by the Jesuits sup- 

 posed to be a " medicine," 90. 



Megapolensis, Dutch pastor at Albany, 

 229; his account of the Mohawks, 

 ib.; befriends Jogues, 235. 



Memory, devices for aiding the, Ixi. 



Messou. See Manabozho. 



Mestigoit, an Indinn hunter, 21, 24, 29, 

 34 ; his skill and courage, 40 ; helps 

 Le Jeune to reach Quebec, ib. 



Mexican fabrics found in Indian ceme- 

 teries, 79 note. 



Miamis, cannibalism among them, xl. 



Michabou. See Manabozho. 



Micmacs in Nova Scotia, xxii. 



Minquas. See Andastes. 



Miracles in the Huron mission, 108; 

 how to be accounted for, 109 ; why 

 miracles were expected, 210 note. 



Miscou, mission at, 317. 



Mission to Hurons. See Huron Mis- 

 sion. 



Mission-house near Quebec described, 

 4. 



Mohawks, xlviii note., liv; number of 

 warriors, 212, 297 ; their towns, 222 ; 

 make peace with the French, 296; 

 credulity and superstition, 301 ; their 

 causeless rage, 303; renew the war 

 with the French, 306 ; their perfidy, 

 308; cruelty, ib.; torture of prison- 

 ers, 309; invade the Huron country, 

 379; furious battle near St. Marie, 

 384; war with the Andastes, 441, 

 and Mohicans, ib. note. See Iro- 

 qudis. 

 Montmagny, Charles Huault de, suc- 

 ceeds Champlain as governor of 

 New France, 149; his zeal for the 

 mission, 150,161; meets the Ursu- 

 lines at their landing, 182; quarrels 

 vnth the leader of the Montreal set- 

 tlement, 204; delivers Montreal to 

 Maisonneuve, 208; builds a fort at 

 Sorel, 242; called Onontio by the 



Iroquois, 283; negotiates a peace 

 with the Iroquois, 284 seq. 



Montac:nais, an Algonquin tribe, where 

 found, xxiii; their degradation, ^6. ; 

 Le Jeune essays their conversion, 

 19; concerned in a treaty of peace, 

 286, 293 ; salutary changes from the 

 influence of the mission, 319. 



Montreal, island of, purchased for the 

 site of a religious community, 195; 

 part of the money given by ladies, 

 198; consecrated to the Holy Fami- 



' ly, 201 ; the enterprise compared 

 with the crusades, 207 ; first day of 

 the settlement, 209 ; motives of the 

 enterprise, as stated by the leaders 

 themselves, 210 note; infancy of the 

 settlement, 261; rise of the ^t. Law- 

 rence checked by a wooden cross, 

 263; arrival of D'Ailleboust and 

 others, 264; pilgrimages, 267; hos- 

 pital built, 266; Indians fed, 268; 

 attacks by the Iroquois, 269 seq.; 

 sally of the French, 273 ; condition 

 of Montreal in 1651, 333. 



Moon, the, worshipped, Ixxvi. 



31 organ, Lewis H., his account of the 

 Iroquois, liv note. 



Murder atoned for by presents, Ixi, 

 Ixii, 354; a grand ceremony of this 

 sort, 355 seq. 



N. 



Nanahush. See Manabozho. 



Nation of the Bear, liii. 



Nation of Fire, an Algonquin people, 

 attacked by the Neutral Nation, 436. 



Neutral Nation, their country, xx, 

 xliv, 142; their cruelty and licen- 

 tiousness, xlv"; representations made 

 to them respecting the French, xlvi 

 7iote ; a ferocious people, 143 ; their 

 excessive superstition, ib. ; a mission 

 among them attempted, 142, but in 

 vain, 146; kindness of a Neutral 

 woman, ib. ; destroy a large town 

 of the Nation of Fire, 436 ; their fei'o- 

 cious cruelty, ib. note; themselves 

 exterminated by the Iroquois, 437. 



New England, Indians in, xxi ; a Jes- 

 uit's impressions of, 328. 



Niagara, called the River of the Neu- 

 trals, xliv ; described by the Jesuits, 

 143 note. 



Nicollet, Jean, visits Green Bay in 

 1639, 166. 



Nipissings, xxiy. 



Notre-Dame des Anges, at Quebec, 

 5, 155; Notre-Dame de Montreal, 

 193. 



