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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
the reward for his torments, a crowd of souls, redeemed from purgatory, were his honoring escort into heaven. Not a year elapsed, when, in the dead of a Cana- 1649. March 16. dian winter, a party of a thousand Iroquois fell, before dawn, upon the little village of St. Ignatius. It was sufficiently fortified, but only four huof the fallen, there were never wanting heroism and enterprise in behalf of the cross and French dominion. It was intended to collect the scattered remnants of 1649. the Hurons in the Grand Manitoulin Isle, which was chosen to be the centre of the western missions. We Relation 1648-9, p. 92. shall be nearer, wrote Rageneau, 9, p. 92. shall be nearer, wrote Rageneau, cheeringly, to the Algonquins of the west; and, as the way to Quebec, even by the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence, was no longer safe, it was thought that, through the remote Ibid. 93. wilderness, some safe avenue might yet be opened. But the Hurons, destined to be scattered through the widest regions, hovered, for a season, round th