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permanent mission. A council was held. We will embrace you, said they, as brothers; we will derive profit from your words. After finishing this excursion, Raymbault designed to rejoin the Algonquins of Nipissing, but the climate forbade; and late in the season, he returned to the harbor of the Huron missions, wasting away with consump- Relation 1642, p. 167. tion. In midsummer of the next year, he descended 1642-3, p. 271. to Quebec. After languishing till October, the self- 1642. Oct. 22. denying man, who had glowed with the hope of bearing the gospel across the continent, through all the American Barbary, even to the ocean that divides America from China, ceased to live; and the body of this first apostle of Christianity to the tribes of Michigan was buried in the particular sepulchre, Relation 1642, 1643, p. 27. which the justice of that age had erected expressly to honor the memory of the illustrious Champlain. Thus the climate made one martyr;—the companion of Raymb