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nent degree. They have large pofleffions 

 in this country, which the French king 

 gave them. At Montreal they have like- 

 wife a fine church, and a little neat houfe, 

 with a fmall but pretty garden within. 

 They do not care to become preachers to a 

 congregation in the town and country; but 

 leave thefe places, together with the emo- 

 luments arifing from them, to the priefts. 

 All their bufmefs here is to convert the hea- 

 thens; and with that view their miffiona- 

 ries are fcattered over every part of this 

 country. Near every town and village, 

 peopled by converted Indians^ are one or 

 two Jefuits, who take great care that they 

 may not return to paganifm, but live as 

 Chriftians ought to do. Thus there are 

 Jefuits with the converted Indians in Ta- 

 doujfacy Lcrette, Becancourt, St. Francois, 

 Saut St. Louis, and all over Canada. There 

 are likewife Jefuit miffionaries with thofe 

 who are not converted ; fo that there is 

 commonly a Jefuit in every village belong- 

 ing to the Indians, whom he endeavours 

 on all occasions to convert. In winter he 

 goes on their great hunts, where he is fre- 

 quently obliged to fuffcr all imaginable in- 

 conveniencies ; fuch as walking in the fnow 

 all day; lying in the open air all winter; 

 being out both in good and bad weather, 



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