De Monts, with one of his vessels, sailed from Havre de Grace on the seventh of April, 1604. Pontgrave, with stores for the colony, was to follow in a few days.
IROQUOIS PRISONERS. - PISKARET. - HIS EXPLOITS. - MORE PRISONERS. - IROQUOIS EMBASSY. - THE ORATOR. - THE GREAT COUNCIL. - SPEECHES OF KIOTSATON. - MUSTER OF SAVAGES. - PEACE CONFIRMED.
LE JEUNE JOINS THE INDIANS. - THE FIRST ENCAMPMENT. - THE APOSTATE. - FOREST LIFE IN WINTER. - THE INDIAN HUT. - THE SORCERER. - HIS PERSECUTION OF THE PRIEST. - EVIL COMPANY. - MAGIC. - INCANTATIONS. - CHRISTMAS. - STARVATION. - HOPES OF CONVERSION. - BACKSLIDING. - PERIL AND ESCAPE OF LE JEUNE. - HIS RETURN.
UNCERTAINTIES. - THE MISSION OF JOGUES. - HE REACHES THE MOHAWKS. - HIS RECEPTION. - HIS RETURN. - HIS SECOND MISSION. - WARNINGS OF DANGER. - RAGE OF THE MOHAWKS. - MURDER OF JOGUES.
PLANS OF CONVERSION. - AIMS AND MOTIVES. - INDIAN DIPLOMACY. - HURONS AT QUEBEC. - COUNCILS. - THE JESUIT CHAPEL. - LE BORGNE. - THE JESUITS THWARTED. - THEIR PERSEVERANCE. - THE JOURNEY TO THE HURONS. - JEAN DE BREBEUF. - THE MISSION BEGUN.
MOHAWK INROADS. - THE HUNTERS OF MEN. - THE CAPTIVE CONVERTS. - THE ESCAPE OF MARIE. - HER STORY. - THE ALGONQUIN PRISONER'S REVENGE. - HER FLIGHT. - TERROR OF THE COLONISTS. - JESUIT INTREPIDITY.
THE HURON MISSION-HOUSE. - ITS INMATES. - ITS FURNITURE. - ITS GUESTS. - THE JESUIT AS A TEACHER. - AS AN ENGINEER. - BAPTISMS. - HURON VILLAGE LIFE. - FESTIVITIES AND SORCERIES. - THE DREAM FEAST. - THE PRIESTS ACCUSED OF MAGIC. - THE DROUGHT AND THE RED CROSS.
MISCOU. - TADOUSSAC. - JOURNEYS OF DE QUEN. - DRUILLETES. - HIS WINTER WITH THE MONTAGNAIS. - INFLUENCE OF THE MISSIONS. - THE ABENAQUIS. - DRUILLETES ON THE KENNEBEC. - HIS EMBASSY TO BOSTON. - GIBBONS. - DUDLEY. - BRADFORD. - ELIOT. - ENDICOTT. -
HURON GRAVES. - PREPARATION FOR THE CEREMONY. - DISINTERMENT. - THE MOURNING. - THE FUNERAL MARCH. - THE GREAT SEPULCHRE. - FUNERAL GAMES. - ENCAMPMENT OF THE MOURNERS. - GIFTS. - HARANGUES. - FRENZY OF THE CROWD. - THE CLOSING SCENE. - ANOTHER RITE. - THE CAPTIVE IROQUOIS. - THE SACRIFICE.