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the English translation, a convenience for those who wish to check 

 the original. In general, the indexes in these sources are inadequate. 

 To compensate for this deficiency and to increase the usefulness of 

 this compendium, the source citations are extensive and may serve as 

 an index. The sources and the abbreviations used in the citations are 

 as follows : 



C=H. P. Biggar (ed.), The Works of Samuel de Champlain. Vol. 3. (Toronto : 



The Champlain Society, 1929.) 

 S=G. M. Wrong (ed.), Father Gabriel Sagard, The Long Journey to the Country 



of the Hurons. (Toronto : The Champlain Society, 1939. ) 

 JR=Reuben Gold Thwaites (ed.), The Jesuit Relatione and Allied Doouments. 



(73 vols. ; Cleveland : Burrows Bros., 1896-1901.) 



Each citation in the text refers to the material between it and the 

 preceding citation in the same paragi'aph. Because with few excep- 

 tions a section in the documents is cited only once, similar material 

 may occasionally be found in other parts of the text. 



For readibility I have paraphrased the statements in these docu- 

 ments and have used direct quotes only (1) when I wished to indicate 

 that an awkward or obscure phrase has not been paraphrased or (2) 

 to set off material that was recorded as actual Indian discourse. These 

 latter statements have been reworded so that they are not direct quotes 

 from the sources. I have left them as quotations for the same reason 

 that the original authors did: to give vividness to the description. 

 Parentheses in a statement which the citation attributes to Sagard 

 indicate additions which he made to "Histoire du Canada" (1636), 

 a later edition of "Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons" ("The 

 Long Journey to the Country of the Hurons") (1632). Brackets in- 

 dicate my additions. 



Throughout, certain consistent changes in wording have been made. 

 For example, "chief" has been used in place of "captain" ; "wampum," 

 for "porcelain"; "house," for "cabin"; "spirit," for "demon" and 

 "devil"; and "you," for "thee." The current names of the Iroquois 

 tribes have been used, not those the French give. The spelling of 

 certain Huron words in some accounts has been changed for the sake 

 of consistency. For linguistic purposes, the alternate spellings and 

 references to these are cited when the Huron word is first used. 



The orthography of the word "Algonquin" has not been changed, 

 except to alter "Algonquain" spellings to "Algonquin." The term 

 probably usually refers to a number of politically independent groups 

 which spoke the same language or very closely related languages, in- 

 cluding such peoples as the Nipissing and Ottawa (all of whom lived 

 near the Huron) , and perhaps also occasionally to such others as the 

 Potawatomi. The word probably does not usually refer to speakers 

 of other Algonquian languages, as, for example, the Montagnais. 



