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The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents
Travels and Explorations
of the Jesuit Missionaries
in New France
1610-1791.
THE ORIGINAL FRENCH, LATIN, AND ITALIANTEXTS, WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONSAND NOTES; ILLUSTRATED BYPORTRAITS, MAPS, AND FACSIMILES
EDITED BY
REUBEN GOLD THWAITES
Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Vol. I.
Acadia: 1610-1613
CLEVELAND: The Burrows Brothers
Company, PUBLISHERS, M DCCCXCVI
Copyright, 1896
by
The Burrows Brothers Co
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,
The Imperial Press, Cleveland
| Editor | Reuben Gold Thwaites |
| Translator from the French | John Cutler Covert |
| Assistant Translator from the French | Mary Sifton Pepper |
| Translators from the Latin | { William Frederic Giese |
| { John Dorsey Wolcott | |
| Translator from the Italian | Mary Sifton Pepper |
| Assistant Editor | Emma Helen Blair |
The story of New France is also, in part, thestory of much of New England, and of States whoseshores are washed by the Great Lakes and the MississippiRiver. It may truly be said that the historyof every one of our northern tier of commonwealths,from Maine to Minnesota, has its roots in the Frenchrégime. It is not true, as Bancroft avers, that theJesuit was ever the pioneer of New France; we nowknow that in this land, as elsewhere in all ages, thetrader nearly always preceded the priest. But thetrader was not often a letter-writer or a diarist:hence, we owe our intimate knowledge of NewFrance, particularly in the seventeenth century,chiefly to the wandering missionaries of the Societyof Jesus. Coming early to the shores of NovaScotia (1611), nearly a decade before the landing ofthe Plymouth Pilgrims, and eventually spreadingthroughout the broad expanse of New France, everclose upon the track of the adventurous coureur debois, they met the American savage before contactwith civilization had seriously affected him. Withheroic fortitude, often with marvellous enterprise,they pierced our wilderness while still there werebut Indian trails to connect far-distant villages ofsem