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nent degree. They have large polTeffions 

 in this country, which the French king 

 gave them. At Montreal ihty 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 Vv'ith the emo- 

 luments ariting from them, to the priefts. 

 All their bufinefs 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 Jcfuits, who take great care that they 

 may not return to paganifm, but live as 

 Chriftians ought to do. Thu^ there are 

 Jefuits with the i-i averted Indians in Ta- 

 doujfac, Lcrette, Becancourt, St. Frangoisy 

 Satit St. LoiiiSf and all over Canada. There 

 are likewife Jefuit mifiionaries 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 occafions to convert. In winter he 

 goes on their great hunts, where he is fre- 

 quently obliged to fuff-r 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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