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      THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS

  VOL. III




               The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents

   TRAVELS AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE JESUIT MISSIONARIES IN NEW FRANCE

                               1610-1791

      THE ORIGINAL FRENCH, LATIN, AND ITALIAN TEXTS, WITH ENGLISH
      TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES; ILLUSTRATED BY PORTRAITS, MAPS, AND
                               FACSIMILES

                               EDITED BY

                          REUBEN GOLD THWAITES
         Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

                                Vol. III
                           ACADIA: 1611-1616


  CLEVELAND: =The Burrows Brothers Company=, PUBLISHERS, M DCCC XCVII




                            COPYRIGHT, 1897
                                   BY
                        THE BURROWS BROTHERS CO

                          ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

                    _The Imperial Press, Cleveland_




EDITORIAL STAFF

  Editor                               REUBEN GOLD THWAITES

  Translator from the French           JOHN CUTLER COVERT

  Assistant Translator from the French MARY SIFTON PEPPER

  Translator from the Latin            WILLIAM FREDERIC GIESE

  Translator from the Italian          MARY SIFTON PEPPER

  Assistant Editor                     EMMA HELEN BLAIR




CONTENTS OF VOL. III


  PREFACE TO VOLUME III                                              1

  DOCUMENTS:--

  XIII. Epistola ad Reverendissimum Patrem Claudium Aquavivam,
  Præpositum Generalem Societatis Jesu, Romæ. _Pierre Biard_;
  Amiens, May 26, 1614.                                              3

  XIV. Relation de la Novvelle France, de ses Terres, Natvrel du Pais,
  & de ses Habitans. [Chapters i-xxv.] _Pierre Biard_; Paris, 1616  21

  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA: VOLUME III                                 285

  NOTES                                                            291




[Illustration]

ILLUSTRATION TO VOL. III


  Photographic facsimile of title-page, Biard's _Relation_ of 1616   24




PREFACE TO VOL. III


Following is a synopsis of the documents contained in the present
volume:

XIII. Biard writes from Amiens (May 26, 1614) to the general of the
order, reporting the planting of St. Sauveur mission, the attack by
Argall, the captivity of the Jesuit missionaries, and their safe return
to France.

XIV. Biard's _Relation_ of 1616 opens with an historical sketch of
French discoveries in New France. The climate of the country, its
forests, and its inhabitants, are described; the writer discourses
on the mode of life among the savages, their dwellings, tribal
organization, polity, women, marriage, medicine, practices of
witchcraft, burials, etc. As a basis for missionary work, he advocates
the establishment of a colony which shall be properly supported in
France, and to this end appeals to the sympathies of Catholics at home.
Much space is devoted to answering the attacks on the Jesuit missions
of New France, made by an anonymous pamphleteer, who has been supposed
to be Lescarbot himself. Continuing with a report of his own movements,
Biard describes the voyage made by himself and Biencourt as far as the
Kennebec River, and the privations and hardships of the colony during
the ensuing winter (1611-12). He again recounts the manner in which
Mme. de Guercheville obtained a grant of New France, and sent a colony
to St. Sauveur, on Mt. Desert Island; the disputes between Biencourt
and the Jesuits; the stay of Massé among the savages on St. John
River; his own trip to Chignectou, with Biencourt; and the hardships
endured by both, as also those of the entire colony, during the winter
of 1612-13. The Jesuits, during this winter, build a boat, and are
thus enabled to go fishing. La Saussaye arrives at Port Royal under
Mme. de Guercheville's auspices, and takes the Jesuits away with him
to St. Sauveur. The settlement there is well begun, when Argall comes
upon it, and takes the French captive. Owing to the great length of
this _Relation_, we have space in the present volume but for the first
twenty-five chapters; the remaining twelve will form the opening part
of Volume IV.

  R. G. T.

  MADISON, WIS., November, 1896.




                                  XIII

                            BIARD'S EPISTOLA

              ad Reverendissimum Patrem Claudium Aquavivam

                            (26 Maii, 1614)

SOURCE: We follow Father Martin's apograph (in the Archives of St.
Mary's College, at Montreal) of the original Latin MS. in the Archives
of the Gesù, at Rome.




Epistola Patris Petri Biardi ad Reverendissimum Patrem Claudium
Aquavivam, Præpositum Generalem Societatis Jesu, Romæ.