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A05339	Noua Francia: or The description of that part of Nevv France, which is one continent with Virginia Described in the three late voyages and plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Graué, and Monsieur de Poutrincourt, into the countries called by the Frenchmen La Cadie, lying to the southwest of Cape Breton. Together with an excellent seuerall treatie of all the commodities of the said countries, and maners of the naturall inhabitants of the same. Translated out of French into English by P.E.; Histoire de la Nouvelle France. English. Selections	Lescarbot, Marc.; Erondelle, Pierre, fl. 1586-1609.	1609 (1609)	STC 15491; ESTC S109397	246,659	330

which I haue said a little before in these words which are not heere laied downe in the former Booke This said people saith he hath not any beleefe of God that may be esteemed for they beleeue in one whom they call Cudoüagni and say that he often speaketh to them and telleth them what weather shall fall out They say that when he is angry with them hee casteth dust in their eies They beleeue also that when they die they goe vp into the starres and afterwards they goe into faire greenefields full of faire trees flowers and rare fruits After they had made vs to vnderstand these things wee shewed them their error and that their Cudoüagni is an euill Spirit that deceiueth them and that there is but one God which is in Heauen who doth giue vnto vs all and is Creator of all things and that in him we must onely beleeue and that they must be baptised or goe into hell And many other things of our faith were shewed them which they easily beleeued and called their Cudoüagni Agoiuda So that many times they requested our Captaine to cause them to be baptized and the said Lord that is to say Donnacona Taiguragni Domagaia with all the people of their towne came thither for that purpose but because we knew not their intent and desire and that there was no body to instruct them in the faith wee excused our selues to them for that time and bad Taiguragni and Domagaia to make them vnderstand that we would returne another voyage and would bring Priests with vs and Chréme telling them for an excuse that one cannot be baptized without the said Chréme which they did beleeue And they were very glad of the promise which the Captaine made them to returne and thanked them for it Monsieur Champlein hauing of late made the same voyage which the Captaine Iames Quartier had made did discourse with Sauages that be yet liuing and reporteth the speeches that were betweene him and certaine of their Sagamos concerning their beleefe in spirituall and heauenly things which I haue thought good being incident to this matter to insert heere his words are these The most part of them be people without law according as I could see and informe my selfe by the said great Sagamos who told mee that they verily beleeue there is one God who hath created all things And then I asked him seeing that they beleeue in one onely God by what meanes did hee place them in this world and from whence they were come He answered mee that after God had made all things he tooke a number of arrowes and did sticke them into the ground from whence men and women sprung vp which haue multiplied in the world vntill now and that mankinde grew by that meanes I answered him that what he said was false But that indeed there was one onely God who had created all things both in Heauen and Earth Seeing all these things so perfect and being no body that did gouerne in this world he tooke slime out of the Earth and created thereof our first father Adam And while he did sleepe God tooke one of his ribes and formed Euah thereof whom hee gaue to him for company and that this was the truth that both they and we were made by this meanes and not of arrowes as they did beleeue He said nothing more to me but that he allowed better of my speech than of his owne I asked him also if he beleeued not that there were any other but one onely God He said vnto me that their beleefe was There was one onely God one Sonne one Mother and the Sunne which were foure Notwithstanding that God was ouer and aboue all but that the Sonne was good and the Sunne by reason of the good which they receiued of them As for the Mother shee was naught and did eat them and that the Father was not very good I shewed him his error according to our faith whereunto he gaue some credit I demanded of him if they neuer saw nor heard their ancestors say that God was come into the world He told me hee had not seene him but that anciently there were fiue men who trauelling towards the setting of the Sunne met with God who demanded of them Whither go yee They answered We goe to seeke for our liuing God answered them You shall finde it heere But they passed further not making any account of that which God had said vnto them who tooke a stone and therewith touched two of them who were turned into stones And he said againe to the three others Whither goe yee and they answered as at the first time and God said vnto them a gaine Passe no further you shall finde it heere and seeing that they found no food they passed further And God tooke two staues and touched therewith the two formost who were transformed into staues But the fift man staied and would passe no further And God asked him againe Whither goest thou Who made answer I go to seeke for my liuing and God told him Tarry and thou shalt finde it and he staied without passing any further And God gaue him meat and he did eat of it and after he had made good cheare he returned among the other Sauages and told them all that you haue heard He also told me that at another time there was a man who had store of Tabacco which is an hearbe the smoke whereof they take and that God came to this man and asked him where his pipe was The man tooke his Tabacco pipe and gaue it to God who dranke very much Tabacco After he had taken well of it God brake the said Tabacco-pipe into many peeces and the man asked him Why hast thou broken my Tabacco-pipe and thou seest well that I haue none other And God tooke one which he had and gaue it him saying vnto him Lo heere is one which I giue to thee carry it to thy great Sagamo let him keepe it and if he keepe it wel he shall not want any thing nor any of his companions The said man tooke the Tabacco-pipe which he gaue to his great Sagamo who whilest he had it the Sauages wanted for nothing in the world But that since the said Sagamo had lost this Tabacco-pipe which is the cause of the great famine which sometimes they haue among them I demanded of him whether he did beleeue all that he told me yes that it was true Now I beleeue that that is the cause why they say that God is not very good But I replied and said vnto him that God was all good and that without doubt it was the Diuell that had shewed himselfe to those men and that if they did beleeue in God as we doe they should want nothing that should be needfull for them That the Sunne which they saw the Moone and the Starres were created by the same great God who hath made both Heauen and Earth

signe of diuinitie in a mortall man to helpe and aide an other mortall man These people then enioying the fruits of the vse of trades and tillage of the ground will beleeue all that shall be told them in auditum auris at the first voice that shal sound in their eares and of this haue I certain proofes because I haue knowen them wholly disposed thereunto by the communication they had with vs and there bee some of them that are Christians in minde do performe the acts of it in such wise as they can though they be not baptised among whom I will name Chkoudun Captaine alias Sagamos of the riuer of Saint Iohn mentioned in the beginning of this worke who whensoeuer he eateth lifteth vp his eies to heauen and maketh the signe of the crosse because he hath seene vs doe so yea at our praiers he did kneele downe as we did And because he hath seene a great crosse planted neere to our fort he hath made the like at his house and in all his cabins and carieth one at his brest saying that he is no more a Sauage and acknowledging plainly that they are beasts so hee saith in his language but that he is like vnto vs desiring to be instructed That which I say of this man I may affirme the same almost of all the others And though he should be alone yet hee is capable being instructed to bring in all the rest The Armouchiquois are a great people which haue likewise no adoration and being setled because they manure the ground one may easily make a congregation of them and exhort them to that which is for their saluation They are vicious and bloody men as we haue said heeretofore but this insolencie proceeds for that they feele themselues strong by reason of their multitude and because they liue more at ease than the others reaping the fruits of the earth Their countrie is not yet well knowen but in that small part that wee haue discouered I finde they haue conformitie with them of Virginia except in the superstition error in that which concerneth our subiect for as much as the Virginians doe begin to haue some opinion of a superior thing in nature which gouerneth heere this world They beleeue in many gods as an English Historian that dwelt there reporteth which they call Montóac but of sundry sorts and degrees One alone is chiefe and great who hath euer beene who purposing to make the world made first other gods for to be meanes and instruments wherewith he might serue himselfe in the Creation and in the gouernment Then afterwards the Sunne the Moone and the Starres as demy gods and instruments of the other Principall order They hold that the woman was first made which by coniunction with one of the gods had children All these people doe generally beleeue the immortality of the soule and that after death good men are in rest and the wicked in paine Now them that they esteeme to be the wicked are their enemies and they the good men In such sort that in their opinion they shall all after death be well at ease and specially when they haue well defended their country and killed many of their enemies And as touching the resurrection of the bodies there are yet some nations in those parts that haue some glimpse of it For the Virginians doe tell tales of certaine men risen againe which say strange things As of one wicked man who after his death had beene neere to the mouth of Popogusso which is their Hell but a god saued him and gaue him leaue to come againe into the world for to tell his friends what they ought to doe for to auoide the comming into this miserable torment Item that yeare that the English men were there it came to passe within 60. leagues off from them as said the Virginians that a body was vnburied like to the first and did shew that being dead in the pit his soule was aliue and had trauelled very farre thorow a long and large way on both sides of which did grow very faire and pleasant trees bearing the rarest fruits that can be seene and that in the end he came to very faire houses neere to the which he found his father which was dead who expresly commanded him to returne backe and to declare vnto his frinds the good which it behooued them to doe for to enioy the pleasures of this place And that after he had done his message he should come thither againe The generall History of the West Indies reporteth that before the comming of the Spaniards into Perou they of Cusco and thereabout did likewise beleeue the resurrection of the bodies For seeing that the Spaniards with a cursed auarice opening the sepulchers for to haue the gold and the riches that were in them did cast and scatter the bones of the dead heere and there they praied them not to scatter them so to the end that the same should not hinder them from rising againe which is a more perfect beleefe than that of the Sadduces and of the Greekes which the Gospell and the Acts of the Apostles witnesse vnto vs that they scoffed at the resurrection as also almost all the heathen antiquity hath done Some of our Westerne Indians expecting this resurrection haue esteemed that the soules of the good did got into heauen them of the wicked into a great pit or hole which they thinke to be far off towards the Sunne setting which they call Popogusso there to burne for euer and such is the beleefe of the Virginians The others as the Brasilians that the wicked goe with Aignan which is the euill spirit that tormenteth them but as for the good that they went behinde the Mountaines to dance and make good cheere with their fathers Many of the ancient Christians grounded vpon certaine places of Esdras of S. Paul and others haue thought that after death our soules were sequestred into places vnder the earth as in Abrahams bosome attending the iudgement of God And there Origen hath thought that they are as in a Schoole of soules and place of instruction where they learne the causes and reasons of the things they haue seene on the Earth and by reasoning make iudgements of consequences of things past and of things to come But such opinions haue beene reiected by the resolution of the Doctours of Sorbone in the time of King Philip the faire and since by the Councell of Florence Now if the Christians haue held that opinion is it much to these poore Sauages to bee entred in those opinions that we haue recited of them As concerning the worshipping of their gods of all them that be out of the Spanish dominion I finde none but the Virginians that vse any diuine seruice vnlesse we will also comprehend therein that which the Floridians doe which we will recite heereafter They then represent their gods in the shape of a man which they call

Their wilde-boares are very leane and vnfleshie and they haue a fearefull grunting and crie But there is in them a strange deformity which is that they haue a hole vpon the backe through which they blow and breath Those three be the biggest beasts of Brasill As for small ones they haue seuen or eight sorts of them by the taking whereof they liue and also of mans flesh and are better and more prouident husbands then ours For one cannot find them vnprouided but rather hauing alwaies vpon the Boucan that is to say a wooden grate somewhat high built vpon foure forks some venison or fish or mans flesh and with that they liue merrily and without care Now leauing there those Anthropophages Brasilians let vs returne to our New France where the Men there are more humane and liue but with that which God hath giuen to Man not deuouring their like Also wee must say of them that they are truely noble not hauing any action but is generose whether we consider their hunting or their employment in the warrs or that one search out their domesticall actions wherein the women doe exercise themselues in that which is proper vnto them and the men in that which belongeth to armes and other things befitting them such as we haue said or will speake of in due place But heere one must consider that the most parte of the world haue liued so from the beginning and by degrees men haue beene ciuilized when that they haue assembled themselues and haue formed common-wealths for to liue vnder certaine lawes rule and policie CHAP. XXII Of Hawking SEeing that wee hunt on the land let vs not ouerstray our selues least if wee take the sea wee lose out fowles for the wise man saith that in vaine the net is spred before the eies of all that haue wings If hunting then be a noble exercise wherein the very Muses themselues take delight by reason of silence and solitarinesse which brings foorth faire conceits in the minde in such sort that Diana saith Pliny doth not more frequent the mountaines then Minerva If I say hunting be a noble exercise hauking is farre more noble because it aymeth at an higher subiect which doth participate of Heauen seeing that the inhabitants of the aire are called in the sacred Scripture Volucres coeli the foules of the aire Moreouer the exercise therof doth belong but to kings to the nobles aboue which their brightnesse shineth as the Sunnes brightnesse doth aboue the starres And our Sauages being of a noble heart which maketh no account but of hunting and martiall affaires may very certainly haue right of vsage ouer the birds that their land doth affoord them Which they doe likewise but with much difficulties because they haue not as we haue the vse of guns They haue enough and too many birds of pray as Eagles Laynards Faulcons Tiercelets Sparow-haukes and others which I haue specified in my farewell to New France but they haue neither the vse nor industrie to bring them to seruice as the French Gentlemen and therefore they loose much good fowle hauing no other meanes to seeke after them or to take them but onely with the Bowe and arrowes with which instruments they doe like vnto them who in France shoote at the Geay in time of middle-lent or creepe along the grasse and go to assaile the Outardes or wild Geese which doe graze in the Spring time and in Summer along the medowes Sometimes also they carrie themselues softly and without making any noise in their canowes and light vessels made with barkes of trees euen to the shores where the Malards and other water fowle are and there strike them downe But the greatest abundance they haue come from certaine Ilands where such quantitie of them are to wit of Malards Margaux Roquettes Outards or wilde Geese Curlies Cormorants and others that it is a woonderfull thing yea that which captaine Iames Quartier reciteth will seeme to some altogether vncredible When we were vpon our returne into France being yet beyond Campseau wee passed by some of those Ilands where in the space of a quarter of an houre we laded our barke with them wee had no need but to strike downe with staues and not to go about to gather vntill one were wearie a striking If any man doth aske why they flie not away one must consider that they be birds onely of two three or fower moneths old which haue beene there hatched in the spring time and haue not yet wings great enough to take slight though they be well fleshie and in good plight As for the dwelling of Port Royall we had many of our men that furnished vs with them and particularlie one of Monsieur de Monts his houshold seruants called François Addeni whose name I insert heere to the end he be had in memorie beecause he alwaies prouided for vs abundantly with it During the winter he made vs to liue onely of Mallards Cranes Hernes Woodcocks Partriges Blackbirds some other kinds of that country birds But in the spring time it was a sport to see the gray Geese and the bigge Outardes a kinde of wilde Geese to keepe their Empire and dominion in our meddowes and in Autumne the white Geese of which some did alwaies remaine for a pawne then the sea Larks flying in great flocks vpon the shores of the waters which also very often were paied home Touching the birds of pray some of our men tooke from the nest an Eagle from the top of a Pine-apple tree of the monstrousest height that euer I saw any tree which Eagle Monsieur de Poutrincourt did breed for to present her to the king but she brake her ties seeking to take her flight and lost her selfe in the sea comming home The Sauages of Campseau had six of them pearched neere to their cabins at our comming thither which wee would not trucke for because they had pulled off their tailes to to feather their arrowes There bee such a quantitie of them in those parts that often they did eat our pigeons and it did behooue vs to looke narrowly to them The birds that were knowen vnto vs I haue enrowled them as I haue said in my farwell to New France but I haue omitted many of them because I knew not their names There also may be seene the description of a little small bird which the Sauages doe call Niridau which liueth but with flowers and she did come noising in my eares passing inuisibly so small is shee when in the morning I went to take a walke in my garden There will be seene also the discription of certaine flies shining in the euening in the spring time which doe flie vp and downe the woods in such a multitude that it is woonder For the birds of Canada I also refer the Reader to the report of Captaine Iames Quartier The Armouchiquois haue the same birdes whereof there are many which are not knowen vnto