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INDEX. 



Religion and superstitions of the Indi- 

 ans, Ixvii, et seq.; worship of mate- 

 rial objects, inanimate no less than 

 animate, ib.; the Indians attribute 

 their origin to beasts, birds, and rep- 

 ti?es, Ixviii; all nature full of objects 

 of religious fear and dread, Ixxxiv ; 

 sacrifices, Ixxxvi. 



Remarkable instance of Indian forgive- 

 ness, 319. 



Rome, Church of, her strange contra- 

 dictions, 84; self-denial of her mis- 

 sionaries, ib. 



s. 



Sacrifice a human, by fire, witnessed 

 bv a missionary, 80 seq. 



Sacrifices of the Indians, Ixxxv, Ixxxvi 

 note. 



St. Bernard, Marie de, a nun at Tours, 

 174; embarks for Canada, 181. 



St Ignace, town, taken by the Iroquois, 

 380 ; furious battle Avith the Hurons, 

 384; the town and its inhabitants 

 destroyed by fire, 385 ; vestiges still 

 remaining, ib. note. 



St. Jean,. town in the Tobacco Nation, 

 attacked by the Iroquois, 405; de- 

 stroyed by fire, 406. 



St. Joseph, "a town in the Huron coun- 

 try, 137, 374 ; surprised by the Iro- 

 quois, 375, and destroyed, 377 ; an- 

 other station of this name on an 

 island, 395 ; the Huron refugees re- 

 pair thither, 399; their extreme 

 misery, ib.; famine, 400. 



St. Louis, town in the Huron countrj-, 

 attacked, 380 ; severe struggle, 381 ; 

 destroyed by the Iroquois, ib. 



Ste. Marie, in the Huron country, a 

 mission established there, 139; the 

 place described, 362 seq.; a bountiful 

 hospitality exercised towards the 

 converts and others, 367 ; alarm and 

 anxiety at the Iroquois invasion, 

 382; the station abandoned, 394; 

 stripped of all valuables, and set on 

 fire, 396. 



Schoolcraft, Henry R., his Notes on 

 the Iroquois, liv note ; his mistakes, 

 Ixxviii, Ixxx; his collection of Al- 

 gonquin tales, Ixxxviii ; his unsatis- 

 factory speculations about Huron 

 graves, 71. 



Seminary, Huron, at Quebec, 167. 



Senecas, one of the Five Nations, 

 xlviii note, liv. See Iroquois. 



Sepulture among the Hurons, Lxxxi, 

 71 seq. 



Sillery, Noel Brulart de, becomes a 

 priest, 182; founds the settlement 

 which bears his name, 183. 



Sioux punish adultery, xxxiv; harass 

 the Hurons, 425. 



Sorcerer, a dwarfish, deformed one, 

 troubles the Jesuits, 91 ; his account 

 of his origin, 92 ; sorcerers, several, 

 in time of mortal sickness, 93. 



Sorcery, as practised among the Indi- 

 ans, Ixxxiv, 32-38. 



Speech-making, Indian, 287, 292-294. 



Sun worshipped, Ixxvi. 



Supernaturalism of the Jesuits, 106; 

 supposed efficacy of relics and 

 prayers to relieve pain and cure dis- 

 ease, 107; conversions effected in 

 this manner, 108; such vieAvs still 

 entertained, as illustrated in a curi- 

 ous incident, ib. 



Superstitions of the Indians, Ixvii seq.^ 

 68. 



Superstitious terrors, Ixxxiv, 115, 141. 



Susquehannocks. See Andastes. 



SAvedish colonists on the Delaware as- 

 sist the Andastes, 442. 



T. 



Tarenyowagon, a powerful deity, 



Ixxvii. 

 Tarratines, the Abenaquis so called, 



xxii note. 

 Tattooing practised, xxxiii; a severe 



process, ib. 

 Teanausiaye, 137. See St. Joseph. 

 Tessouat, or Le Borgne, converted, 



268. 

 Tionnontate'*. See Tobacco Nation. 

 Tobacco Nation, or Tionnontates, in 



league with the Hurons, xliii ; raised 



tobacco, 47; mission among them, 



140; reception of the missionaries, 



141 ; perils of the missionaries, 142 ; 



some of the Hurons seek an asylum 



there, 393, 404. 

 Tobacco, none in Heaven, a sad 



thought to the Indian, 136. 

 Totems, emblems of clans, li, Ixviii, 



375. 

 Trade in furs, xlv, 47, 155. 

 Traffic of the Indians, how conducted, 



xxxvi. 

 Treatment of women, xxxiv, xxxv, 



of prisoners, xxxix, xh', 80, 216 seq., 



248 seq., 253, 254, 277, 339, 388, 439, 



441 note. 

 Tuscaroras, in Carolina, xxi; unite 



with the Five Nations, xxi, Ixvi. 



