This Scene Presents An Admirable Contrast, With
Another Taking Place Close By; An Indian Warrior Is Seen Giving,
Imperiously, His Orders To A Squaw, - His Wife Mayhap - But Who, From Her
Downcast And Humble Look, Seems More Like His Slave.
A short distance from
this group, a missionary, (Father Jerome Lalemant) after visiting some
wigwams, erected around the house of Madame de la Peltrie, is threading a
narrow path leading to the depths of the forest.
The most attractive
feature about the painting is a group of young children, listening
attentively to the teachings of a nun, seated on the right, under the
shade of an ash tree. The impression created by this antique painting, is
the more delightful and vivid, because on turning one's gaze, at present,
from the picture, to the interior of the cloister, may still be seen the
hoary head of an old ash tree, under which tradition shows us the
venerable Mother de l'Incarnation, catechising the Indian children
and teaching the young girls of the colony." [46] After more than two
centuries of existence, the old ash tree succumbed lately to a storm.
Laval, Attorney-General Ruette D'Auteuil, Louis de Buade, Ste. Helene (†)
seem to come back to life in the ancient streets of the same name, whilst
Frontenac, Iberville, Piedmont, are brought to one's recollection, in the
modern thoroughfares. The old Scotch pilot, Abraham Martin, (who according
to the Jesuits' Journal, might have been a bit of a scamp, although
a church chorister, but who does not appear to have been tried for his
peccadiloes,) owned a domain of thirty-two acres of land in St. John's
suburbs, which were bounded towards the north, by the hill which now bears
his name (La Cote d'Abraham.)
Mythology has exacted a tribute on a strip of ground in the St. Louis
suburbs.
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