Onontio, you are good: we are bad. But our anger is gone; I have no heart but for peace and rejoicing."Previously in The Jesuits in North America in
Villemarie
The captives were bound with the usual rigor; and the Hurons taunted and insulted them, to please their dangerous companions.Previously in The
Parkman Vol 2 Chapter 18
Peace and harmony reigned within the little fort.Previously in The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century.Our special project
Joseph Bressani’s Ordeal
The perils which beset the missionaries did not spring from the fury of the Iroquois alone, for Nature herself was armed with terror in this stern
Parkman Vol. 2 Chapter 17
These Canadian tribes were undergoing that process of extermination, absorption, or expatriation, which, as there is reason to believe, had for many
Jogues Escapes
His desperation gave him strength; and, by working the boat to and fro, he pushed it at length, little by little, into the water, entered it, and
Captive and Missionary
He went from town to town, giving absolution to the Christian captives, and converting and baptizing the heathen.Previously in The Jesuits in North
Mohawks Torture Jogues
The children now profited by the examples of their parents, and amused themselves by placing live coals and red-hot ashes on the naked bodies of the
Parkman Vol. 2 Chapter 16
In the early morning of the second of August, 1642, twelve Huron canoes were moving slowly along the northern shore of the expansion of the St.