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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)
f their river for his abode, resolved to persevere, in the vain hope of infusing into their savage nature the gentler spirit of civilization. The Onondagas were more sincere; and when Chap. XX.} Chaumonot, an Italian priest, long a missionary 1655. among the Hurons, left Quebec for their territory, he was accompanied by Claude Dablon, a missionary, Journal de Dablon who had recently arrived from France. They were Dablon hospitably welcomed at Onondaga, the principal village of the tribe. ned a band of the Ottawas, or other Algonquins, and, in their little gondolas of bark, ventured on a voyage of five hundred leagues. After two years, they reappeared, accompanied by a fleet of fifty canoes, urged forward by five hundred Relation 1655, 6, c. XIV. XV. XVI. arms. The natives ascend the cliff of St. Louis, comed by a salute from the ordnance of the castle Chap. XX.} They describe the vast lakes of the west, and the numerous tribes that hover round them; they speak of the Kniste
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
eams, was universal. On Lake Superior, the nephew of a Chippewa squaw having dreamed that he saw a French dog, the woman travelled four hundred leagues, Relation 1655, 1656, p. 97. in midwinter, over ice and though snows, to obtain it. Life itself was hazarded, rather than fail to listen 1654, 1655, 96-99. to the message convey1655, 96-99. to the message conveyed through sleep; and, if it could not be fulfilled, at least some semblance would be made. Happy was the hunter who, as he went forth to the chase, obtained a vision of the great spirit of the animal which he was to pursue; the sight was a warrant of success. But if the dream should be threaten ing, the savage would rise in thedear. We raise not our thoughts, they would say to the missionaries, to your heaven; we desire only the paradise of our ancestors. To the doctrine of a Relation 1655, 1656, p. 95 future life they listened readily. The idea of retribution, as far as it has found its way among them, was derived from Europeans. The future life w