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Andre (L.)— Continued. 



the exercises of the mission were ended, he pro- 

 ceeded to Ouiebitchiouan, an island in the same 

 lake lying opposite EkaentSton (Manitoulin), 

 where he remained twelve days. After sojourn- 

 ing on the latter island, continuing unremit- 

 tingly his apostolic labors in spite of famine, he 

 finally reached Lake Nipissing, and there spent 

 three months instructing the 8tisk8agami 

 (those-at-the- farthest-lake) . 



As the ice broke up he returned to EkaentS- 

 ton, and for three weeks he preached to the 

 AmikSd, or Beaver nation, who had taken up 

 their abode on the island. Provisions were now 

 more plentiful as the hunt of the orignal had 

 proved successful, and God gave him, as he 

 says, wherewith to "couler doucement la fin de 

 I'hyver." This to all appearances was towards 

 tlie end of the winter 1670-1671. 



The summer months of 1671, Father Andr6 

 passed at the Bale des Puants. "We next find 

 him at Michiliraakinac, where he spent part 

 of the winter with the Etionnontatehronnon 

 HuroiiS and other Indians who had returned 

 there as exiles to their old habitation. 



On the 15th of December, 1671, be set out to 

 return to Green Bay. A^ter a tedious and per- 

 ilou.s journey, owing especially to the ice, he 

 reached his destination and occupied the re- 

 mainder of the winter journeying from village 

 to village and evangelizing the tribes settled in 

 the neighborhood. 



Father Andr^ was stationed at Green Bay in 



1672, and I might say permanently. He had 

 for his companion Father Allouez. 



On the 15th of February, the first day of lent, 



1673, he repaired to the village of Oussouamig- 

 oung, where his labors were crowned with suc- 

 cess. But, owing to a promise he had made 

 Father Allouez, he relunctantly left his neo- 

 phytes, on the 6th of March, to return to the 

 residence at the Bay. Here day after day, from 

 ■morning to sundown, the Indians flocked to his 

 •cabin to be instructed in the Christian faith. 

 On the 24th of March the Indians struck their 

 tents intending to camp nearer the mouth of the 

 river, and on the day following Father Allouez 

 returned from a mission to the Outagamis, or 

 Foxes, thus leaving Father Andr6 at liberty to 

 go on his own annual eight days' retreat, which 

 time he spent in seclusion, prayer, and medita- 

 tion. 



Towards the end of April of this same year, 

 1673, Father Andr6 undertook a mission to the 

 Maloumines or FoUes-Avoines, but he does not 

 specify what length of time he spent among 

 them. 



In the following year, 1674, he returned to 

 the mission of Oua-^satinoun [sic], aul premises 

 by saying that it was his third visit. On the 

 16th of November, the river of the Folles- 

 Avoines or Maloumines being completely frozen 

 over, he was prevented from following the In- 

 -dian bands to the extremity of Cape Illinois, and 

 saw himself in the necessity of patiently await- 

 ing their return at the end of January, 1675. 



Father Andr6, throughout 1677, continued 



Andre (L.) — Continued. 



working assiduously among the Indians of the 

 Bay, and regenerated by baptism one hundred 

 catechumens. 



From 1678 to 1681 we find him still at Green 

 Bay ; in 1782 at Michiliraakinac. In 1683 he was 

 with the InT.ians at Kiskakin. This was the 

 last 5'ear of liis missionary labor in the "West. 



He was now in his sixtieth year, and was re- 

 called to Quebec, no doubt with the intention 

 of aff'ording him a little rest after many years 

 of hardship and apostolic toil. He was then 

 named professor of philosophy in the Jesuits' 

 College, at Quebec, a post he occupied in 1684 

 and 1685. A nd, though venerable in years, he 

 did not think it beneath him to accept an ap- 

 pointment as professor in the lower forms of 

 Quebec College. This duty he fulfilled from 

 1686 to 1690. But his superiors no doubt had 

 an ulterior object in view in this appointment. 

 It was, we may presume, to afford him an ap- 

 portunity and leisure of turning to account for 

 the benefit of future missionaries his thorough 

 knowledge of the Algonquin language. His 

 Algonquin dictionary bears no date, but the 

 compendium [see Collectio, first Andr6 title 

 above], written, to all external appearance, 

 about the same time, furnishes us with a clue. 



Claude Allouez landed the 11th of July, 

 1658, and died the 27th of August, 1689, giving 

 an interval of thirty-one years between his ar- 

 rival and his death, so that the compendium 

 was not certainly written before 1688, thoxigh 

 it might have been written after, as Father Al- 

 louez died after about thirty year^ of mission- 

 ary life. 



Besides the dictionary and the collection of 

 precepts, etc., there were other of his works 

 which survived him but which I have not yet 

 been able to-discover. "We are informed of this 

 by the following inscription in a strange hand 

 written on the inside of the paper cover of the 

 compendium: 



"Collectio sequens est conscripta a P. Ludo- 

 vico Andre, qui fuit Silvicolarum Montanorum, 

 missionarius ad ann. M. D. C. XCIII. 



' 'Aliamanuscripta ejusd. scil. Catechismus, 

 rudimentum, et exhortationes servantur in 

 Archiv. Tadussakensi, sub No. ..." 



The archives of Tadoussac have long since 

 disappeared. 



In 1691 Andr6 was again on the missions ; this 

 time at St. Francis Xavier (Chicoutimi) and 

 Lake St. Peter. This was in the lower Algon- 

 quin mission. 



In 1692 he was still in the Montagnais mis- 

 sion, with the Papiuacheois and at Chicoutimi. 

 In 1693 and 1694 we-find him back amidst civili- 

 zation and stationed at Montreal. 



From 1696 to 1699, inclusive, he is not men- 

 tioned in the catalogues, save in the erroneous 

 statement at the end of 1696: "Obiit P. Andr6 

 Cadomis (at Caen). 20 Apr., 1696." This cer- 

 tainly referred to some other F. Andr6, for we 

 shall see by the sequel that the sturdy veteran 

 was not ready yet to shake off his mortal coil. 

 He appears again in 1700 ; where he was in the 



