You Have Heard Above Said How The Ffathers Inhabited The Hurron Country To
Instruct Them In Christian Doctrine.
They preach the mighty power of the
Almighty, who had drowned the world for to punish the wicked, saving onely
our father Noe with his familie was saved in an arke.
One came bringing
Indian corne, named Jaluck, who escaped the shipwrake that his countrymen
had gone, being slave among us. He received such instructions of those
deale boords, & reflected soundly upon the structure that he thought verily
they weare to make an other arke to escape their hands, and by our
inventions cause all the rest to be drowned by a second deluge. They
imputing so much power to us, as Noe had that grace from God, thought that
God at least commanded us so to doe. All frightened [he] runns to his
village. This comes back makes them all afraid. Each talkes of it. The
elders gathered together to consult what was to be done. In their councell
[it] was concluded that our fort should be visited, that our fathers should
be examined, & according to their answers deliberation should be taken to
preserve both their life and countrey. We had allwayes spyes of our side,
which weare out of zele and obedience. The ffathers Jesuits and others
voluntarily ventured their lives for the preservation of the common
liberty. They remaine in the village of those barbars to spie what their
intent should be, houlding correspondence with some of those of the
councell by giving them guifts, to the end that we might know what was
concluded in the Councell & give us advise with all speede.
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