IN A FISHING COUNTRY 



diableries that issued from it. 'Some day' 

 says he 'I shall know if there is some 

 deviltry in what they do, at present 1 can 

 only assert that some say yes and some say 

 no.' Later, he returns his answer: — 'If what 

 I have heard be true one may not doubt that 

 Demons sometimes traffic with them. Till 

 now I was for believing that the Devil 

 played with them, filling their minds with 

 delusion and their wills with malice; so 

 was I persuaded that he did not reveal him- 

 self in person and that all these Sorcerers 

 did were but jugglings contrived for profit. 

 But now I begin to doubt, even to lean to 

 the other side . . . ' 



'Wintering with the Indians I saw this 

 deviltry... was astonished... all these 

 reasons make it seem likely that the Devil 

 is sometimes in actual touch with these poor 

 Barbarians . . . ' 



Thus the incredulous Le Jeune was slow- 

 ly converted, and others of the Fathers of 

 his day came unwillingly to the same opin- 

 ion. Father Pijart found himself confront- 

 ed with strange and incredible things which 

 brought him to a belief in demoniac 

 influences. Father Breboeuf writes Le 

 Jeune: — 



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