backes their legges hanging downe then being returned into their Cabins they set them in this maner vp straight against a stone or some thing else And as in these our parts one giues small feathers and gilt things to little children so they hang quantity of beades and small square toies diuersly coloured in the vpper part of the said boord or plancke for the decking of theirs CHAP. IIII. Of their loue towards their children THat which we haue said euen now is a part of true loue which doth shame the Christian women But after the Children be weaned and at all times they loue them all obseruing this law that Nature hath grafted in the hearts of all creatures except in leaud slippery women to haue care of them And when it is question to demand of them some of their children I speake of the Sâ—â—riquois in whose land we dwelt for to bring them into France they wil not giue them but if any one of them doth yeeld vnto it presents must be giuen vnto him besides large promises We haue alreadie spoken of this at the end of the 17. chapter So then I finde that they haue wrong to be called Barbarous seeing that the ancient Romans were far more Brabarous than they who oftentimes sold their children for to haue meanes to liue Now that which causeth them to loue their children more than we doe in these parts is that they are the maintenance of their fathers in their old age whether it be to helpe them to liue or to defend them from their enemies And nature conserueth wholly in them her right in this respect By reason whereof that which they wish most is to haue number of children to be thereby so much the mightier as in the first age of the world when virginity was a thing reproouable because of Gods commandement to man and women to increase multiply and replenish the earth but after it was filled this loue waxed maruellous cold and children began to be a burthen to fathers and mothers whom many haue had in disdaine and haue verie often procured their death Now is the way open for France to haue a remedy for the same For if it please God to guide and prosper the voyages of New France whosoeuer in these parts shall finde himselfe oppressed may passe thither and there end his daies in rest and that without feeling any pouerty or if any one findeth himselfe ouerburthened with children he may send halfe of them thither and with a small portion they shall be rich and possesse the land which is the most assured condition of this life For we see at this day labor and paine in all vocations yea in them of the best sort which are often crossed through enuy and wants others will make a hundred cappings and crouchings for to liue and yet they doe but pine away But the ground neuer deceaueth vs if we earnestly cherish her Witnesse the fable of him who by his last will and testament did declare to his children that he had hidden a treasure in his Vineyard and as they had well and deepely digged and turned it they found nothing but the yeere being come about they gathered so great a quantity of grapes that they knew not where to bestow them So thorow all the holy Scripture the promises that God maketh to the Patriarches Abraham Isaac and Iacob and afterwards to the people of Israel by the mouth of Moses is that they shall possesse the land as a certaine heritage that cannot perish and where a man hath wherewith to sustaine his familie to make himselfe strong and to liue in innocency according to the speeches of the ancient Cato who did say that commonly Husbandmen or Farmers Sonnes be valiant and strong and doe thinke on no harme CHAP. 5. Of their Religion MAn being created after the image of God it is good reason that he acknowledge serue worship praise and blesse his Creator and that therein he imploy his whole desire his minde his strength and his courage But the nature of man hauing been corrupted by sinne this faire light that God had first giuen vnto him hath beene so darkned that he is becom therby to lose the knowledge of his beginning And for as much as God sheweth not himself vnto vs by a certaine visible forme as a father or a King might doe man finding himselfe ouercome with pouerty and infirmity not setling himselfe to the contemplation of the wonders of this Almighty workman and to seeke him as he ought to be sought for with a base and brutish spirit miserably hath he forged to himselfe gods according to his owne fancy And there is nothing visible in the world but hath beene deified in some place or other yea euen in that rancke and degree imaginary things hath also beene put as Vertue Hope Honour Fortune and a thousand such like things Item infernall gods and sicknesses and all sorts of plagues euery one worshipping the things that he stood in feare of But notwithstanding though Tuliie hath said speaking of the nature of the gods that there is no nation so sauage or brutish nor so barbarous but is seasoned with some opinion of them yet there haue been found in these later ages nations that haue no feeling thereof at all which is so much the stranger that among them there were and yet are Idolaters as in Mexico and Virginia If we will we may adde heereunto Florida And notwithstanding all being well considered seeing the condition both of the one and of the other is to be lamented I giue more praise to him that worshippeth nothing than to him who worshippeth creatures without either life or sense for at least as bad as he is he blasphemeth not and giueth not the glorie due to God to an other liuing indeed a life not much differing from brutishnesse but the same is yet more brutish that adoreth a dead thing and putteth his confidence in it And besides he which is not stained with any bad opinion is much more capable of true adoration than the other being like to a bare table which is ready to receiue what colour soeuer one will giue to it For when any people hath once receiued a bad impressioÌ„ of doctrine one must roote it out from them before another may be placed in them Which is very difficult as well for the obstinacy of men which doe say our fathers haue liued in this sort as for the hindrance that they giue them which doe teach them such a doctrine and others whose life dependeth thereupon who doe feare that their meanes of gain be taken from them euen as that Demetrius the siluer-smith mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles This is the reason why our Sauages of New France wil be found more easie to receiue the Christian doctrine if once the Prouince be thorowly inhabited For that we may begin with them of Canada Iames Quartier in his second relation reciteth that
bringing vp of children of the Women of our time of the ancient Germain Women CHAP. IIII. Of the loue towards Children the Sauage Women loue their children more then the Women of these parts vse to do and the cause why wherein New France is profitable to the ancient France Possession of the land CHAP. V. Of Religion the origine of Idolatrie he which worshipeth nothing is more capable of Christian Religion than an idolater the Canadians Religion People easie to be conuerted the Astorgie and impietie of the Christians of this day the giuing of foode and teaching of Arts is the meanes to conuert Sauage people of the name of God of certaine Sauages already Christians in minde the Religion of the Sauages in Virginia fabulous tales concerning the Resurrection the Simulachers of gods the Floridians religion the error of Belle-forest the Cosmographer the worshipping of the Sunne the kissing of hands the Brasilians vexed by the diuell they haue some obscure knowledge of the generall floud and of some Christian which anciently hath beene among them CHAP. VI. Of the Soothsà iers and Aoutmoins of Priesthood the Idols of the Mexicans the Indian Priests are Phisicions withall pretence of Religion the Aoutmoins subtilties how they call vpon diuels songs to the praises of the diuell the Sabbath of the Sauages Bonefiers vpon Saint Iohns daies Vrim and Thummim the office of Priesthood successiue of the Caraibes deceiuers like to the sacrificers of the Idoll Bell. CHAP. VII Of the Language the Indians be all diuided in languages time bringeth an alteration in the toungs the conformity of them the causes of the change of tongues since when the trade of Beuers hath beene the Sauages pronunciation of the ancient Hebrewes Greeks Latines and of the Parisians the Sauages haue particular tongues not vnderstood by New found land men the Sauages maner of reckoning CHAP. VIII Of learning the inuention of letters is admirable the ancient Germains were without letters the letters and Sciences were among the Gaullois before that either the Greeks or Latins had them the Sarronides were in the old times Diuines and Philosophers among the Gaullois the Bardes were Poets thereuerence that was vsed towards them the reuerence of Mars towards the Muses the king his eldest daughter the Basilicke fastned in the temple of Apollo CHAP. IX Of Clothes and of Haires to what end Garments were made the nakednesse of the ancient Picts of the moderne Aethiopians of the Brasilians the Sauages of New France more honest their Cloakes of skins the ancient Hercules his garment of the ancient Germains of the Gothes the Shooing and Hoseing of the Sauages the couering of the head the Haires of the Hebrewes Gaullois Gothes the Ordinance for the Priests to weare Hats Shauen men CHAP. X. Of the shape and dexterity of the Sauages Mans forme is the most perfit the violence done to Nature the Brasilians be short nosed The rest of the Sauages be handsome men halfe dwarfes the Patagons be Gyants The fauour of the Sauages the description of the Westerly flies Why the Americans are not blacke From whence proceedes the heat of Affrica And the coolenesse of America being in the selfesame degree Of the colour of the haires and of the beard When the Romans began to weare beardes ihe Sauages are not hairy Hairy women The ancient Gaullois and Germans had their haires yellow like gold Their lookes voices eies The women shrew The eies of the men of Taprobane of the Sauages and Scythians Of the lips Monstruous bodies The agility of the body What the Naires of Malebaris doe for to be nimble What people haue agility The Indians skilfulnesse in swimming A sharpe sight The Sauages sense of smelling Their hatred against the Spaniards CHAP. XI Of the ornaments of the body Of the painting of the Hebrewes Romans Affricans c. ancient Englishmen Picts Gothes c. West-Indians Of the markes razings and incisions on their flesh Of the markes of the ancient Hebrewe Tyrons and Christians The reproouing of the painting of the face and other paintings of the body CHAP. XII Of the outward ornaments The two Tyrants of our life The superfluity of the ancient Rome The excesse of Ladies of their wiers and periwigges Colouring of haires Eare-rings Bracelets garters buskins and shooes What pearles are Matachiaz Vignols Esurgni Carkanets of iron and of gold CHAP. XIII Of mariage The Iewes custome The widdowes do blacken their faces the prostituting of Maidens the continency of the Souriquois women the maner to make sute to a maid for mariage the prostituting of maidens in Brasill of the Pox the cure thereof the chastitie of the ancient German women reason for the Sauages continency the Floridians doe loue women Ithyphalles Degrees of consanguinity The Gaulloise women fruitfull Poligamy without Iealousie Diuorce What a man ought to doe hauing a bad wife Abstinency of the widowes The Infidels haue whoredome in abomination CHAP. XIIII Of the Sauages Tabagie or banquet The manner of liuing of the Sauages of the hether lands How the Armouchiquois vse and serue themselues with their Corne the ancient Italians did the like the assembly of the Sauages making their Tabagy the women eat by themselues the honour giuen to women amongst the ancient Gaullois and Germans the bad condition of them among the Romans What they haue beene that haue established the Roman Empire the manner of liuing of the ancient Romans Tartarians Moschouites Getulians Germans Aethiopians of Saint Iohn Baptist of Aemilian Traian Adrian and of the Sauages Salt not altogether necessary the Sauages doe sometimes suffer want their superstition Of their gluttony and of Hercules the Brasilians food Anthropophagy Strange prostituting of maidens communalty of life the Sauages Hospitality of the Gaullois and Germans Of drinking the sirst Romans had no vines the Beere of the ancient Gaullois and Aegyptians the ancient Germans did hate wine How wine is necessary Tabacco the drinking one to another the drinke of the Floridians and Brasilians Hidromel CHAP. XV. Of dances and songes The origine of dances in the honour of God dances and songes in the honour of Apollo Neptune Mars of the Sonne of the Salians Praesul Socrates dance The dances turned into bad vse How much dangerous All Sauages doe vse dancing To what end Orpheus his foolish song Why we sing to God The songes of the Souriquois Of holy people Of the Gaullois Bardes Sonnets made by the commandement of Charolus Magnus The song of the Lacedemonians The dances and songes of the Sauages The orations of their Captaines CHAP. XVI Of the disposition of the body Phthisie The sweatinges of the Sauages the Phisitions and Chirurgions of the Floridians Brasilians and Souriquois Cures made by Charmes A maruellous report of the despising of griefe Triall of constancy Suffering of torments for the honour of Diana and of the Sun the long liues of the Sauages the causes thereof and of the shortning of our daies CHAP XVII The mens exercices of Bowes and arrowes Maces
Bucklers fishing lines Rackets the Sauages Canowes or boates and their fashion Canowes made of willowes of paper of leather of hollowed trees the originall of the fables of the Syrens or Mermaidens long trauels through the woods pottery of Earth the tillage of the ground the ancient Germans had no lands proper or peculiar to them the Sauages are not laborious how they manure the land double sowing and double Haruest How they liue in Winter the Sauages townes of the originall of townes the first builders in the Gaulles of the word Magus Philosophy hath beene first found out by the Barbarians the plaies and games of the Sauages CHAP. XVIII The womens exercices the woman is called pierced or hollowed the women are saued in bringing foorth of Children of purification the hard condition of the women among the Sauages ges of mattes currying and dressing of leather their making of Baskets Purses Dies Dishes Matachiaz Canowes the loue of the Sauage women towards their husbands their chastity A faire obseruation vpon the Hebrew names of the man and of the woman CHAP. XIX Of Ciuilitie the first Ciuilitie is the obedience to God and to the parents the Sauages be Slouenly at their Banquets for want of linnen the repast of the ancient Gaullois and Germains of the arriuing of the Sauages into any place their Greetings likewise of the Greekes Romans and Hebrewes of the saluting in Sneezing Item in the beginning of Letters of the Farewell the Sauages reuerence to their Fathers and Mothers Curse to him which honoreth not his Father and his mother CHAP. XX. Of the Vertues and Vices of the Sauages the Principles of Vertue are invs euen from our birth of force and greatnesse of courage the ancient Gaullois were without feare the Sauages are reuengefull wherin temperance consisteth whether the Sauages are indued therewith wherein Liberalitie consisteth the Sauages Liberality they disdaine the couetous pelting Merchants their Magnificence Hospitality Piety towards their Fathers and Mothers of their Iustice the execution of Iustice the incredible euasion of two Sauages prisoners wherein the Sauages be diligent and slothfull CHAP. XXI Of Hunting the originall thereof to whom it belongeth to what end Kings are chosen hunting the image of War the first end thereof the interpretation of one verse of the 32. Psalme all Sauages doe hunt when and how the discription of the hunting of the Ellan or Stagge the Sauages hounds the Sauages haue Rackets at theirfeet when they hunt their continuance in hunting faire inuention of them for the Kitching their womens duty after the hunting the fishing or hunting of the Beuer the discription of the same her admirable building how she is taken from whence anciently the Beuers did come Of Beares Leopards the discription of the beast called Nibachés Wolues Conies c. the Cattell of France do profit well in New France Maruellous multiplicatin of Beasts of the beasts of Florida and of Brasill the Sauages are truely noble CHAP. XXII Of Hauking the Muses doe delight in hunting hawking is a noble exercise How the Sauages take their fowle Ilands swarming with birds the foules of Port Royall Of a bird called Niridau of glistering flies Turky or Indian Cocks the foules of Florida and of Brasill CHAP. XXIII Of Fishing a comparison betweene Hunting Hauking and Fishing an Emperour delighting himselfe in Fishing Plato his absurdity Fishing permitted to Churchmen the feeding vpon fish is the best and wholesomest food euery Fish dreads the Winter and withdraweth himselfe they returne in the Spring time a manna of Smelts Heerings Pilchers Sturgeons and Salmons the maner of taking of them by the Sauages the abuse superstition of Pythagoras the Sanctorum of New found land fishermen of the shell Fish of Port Royall the fishing of the Codde whether Cods doe sleepe the cause why fishes sleepe not fishes hauing stones in their heads as the Codde doe feare Winter Oile or traine of fish the fishing of the Whale wherein the hardinesse and bouldnesse of the Sauages is to be admired Hippopotames the infinite multitude of Mackerels the Idlenesse of the people of this day CHAP. XXIIII Of the Land which is the good ground Terra Sigillata is in New France the fructifying of Monsieur de Poutrincourts Sowings which is the good Dung of Turkie or Indian Wheat called Mahis how the Sauages doe mend their grounds how they Sowe the temperature of the Aire doth serue to production Barnes vnder ground the cause of the slothfuluesse of the Sauages of the hither lands neere vnto vs Hempe of Vines when they were first planted in Galia of Trees Tabacco and the maner and vse of it the foolish greedinesse after Tabacco the Vertues thereof the error of Belle-forest of the rootes called Afrodiles or ground Nuts a consideration vpon the miserie of many people the tilling of the ground is a most innocent exercise Gloria adorea of the Fruit trees and others of Port Royall of Florida and of Brasill the despising of Mines Fruits to be hoped in new France CHAP. XXV Of the war to what end the Sauages doe make war The Orations of the Sauages Captaines their surprises the maner to foretell the euent of the war the succession of Captaines the Sauages armes of excellent Archers from whence comes the word Militia the cause of the Sauages feare their maner of marching in War a warlike dance how the Sauages doe vse the victory of the Victime sacrifice Punishment the Sauages will not fall into their enemies hands the trophies of their enemies heads of the ancient Gaullois of the moderne Hungarians CHAP. XXVI Of Funerals the lamenting for the dead the burying of them is a worke of humanity the custome of the Sauages in this respect of the preseruing of the dead bodies of the mourning of the Persians Aegyptians Romans Gascons Brasilians Floridians Souriquois Hebrewes Queenes of France Thracians Locrians ancient Christians the burning of the moueable goods of the deceassed a faire lesson to the Couetous the customes of the Phrigians Latins Hebrewes Gaullois Germains and Sauages for this respect the burying of the dead What people doe bury them who burne them and who preserue them Of the funerall gifts shut vp in the sepulchers of the dead the same reprooued the couetousnesse of the Infringers of Sepulchers Noua Francia The three late voyages and plan tation of Monsieur De MONTS of Monsieur Du Pont grauè and of Monsieur De Poutrincourt into the Countries called by the Frenchmen La Cadia lying to the Southwest of Cap Breton together with an excellent seuerall Treatie of all the commodities of the said Countries and maners of the naturall inhabitants of the same CHAP. I. The Patent of the French King to Monsieur DE MONTS for the inhabiting of the Countries of La Cadia Canada and other places in new France HENRY by the grace of God King of France and Naturre To our deare and welbeloued the Lord of Monts one of the ordinarie Gentlemen of our Chamber greeting
nor any wise swadled in cloutes The Cimbres did put their new borne children into the snow to harden them And the Frenchmen did plunge theirs into the riuer Rhine to know if they were legitinate for if they did sinke vnto the bottome they were esteemed bastards and if they did swimme on the water they were legitimate meaning as it were that French-men ought naturally to swim vpon the waters As for our Sauages of New France when that I was there thinking nothing lesse than on this History I tooke not heed of many things which I might haue obserued But yet I remember that as a woman was deliuered of her child they came into our Fort to demand very instantly for some grease or oyle to make the child to swallow it downe before they giue him the dugge or any food they can render no reason for this but that it is a custome of long continuance Whereupon I coniecture that the diuell who hath alwaies borrowed ceremonies from the Church as well in the ancient as in the new law would that his people so doe I call them that beleeue not in God and are out of the Communion of Saints should be anointed like to Gods people which vnction he hath made to be inward because the spirituall vnction of the Christians is so CHAP. II. Of the imposition of names AS for imposition of names they giue them by tradition that is to say they haue great quantity of names which they chuse and impose on their children But the eldest sonne commonly beareth his fathers name adding at the end some diminutiue as the eldest of Membertou shall be called Membertouchis as it were the lesser or the yonger Membertou As for the yonger Son he beareth not the Fathers name but they giue him such name as they list And hee that is borne after him shall beare his name adding a syllable to it as the yonger of Membertou is called Actaudin he that commeth after is called Actaudinech So Memembourré had a sonne named Semcoud and his yonger was called Semcoudech It is not for all that a generall rule to adde this termination ech For Panoniacs yonger Sonne of whom mention is made in Membertous warre against the Armouchiquois which I haue described in the Muses of New France was called Panouiagués so that this termination is done according as the former name requireth it But they haue a custome that when this elder brother or father is dead they change name for to auoid the sorrow that the remembrance of the deceassed might bring vnto them This is the cause why after the decease of Memembourré Semcoud that died this last Winter Semcoudech hath left his brothers name and hath not taken that of his father but rather hath made himselfe to be called Paris because he dwelt in Paris And after Panoniacs death Panoniagues forsooke his name and was by one of our men called Roland which I finde euill and vndiscreetly done so to prophane Christians names and to impose them vpon Infidels as I remember of another that was called Martin Alexander the Great though he was an Heathen would not that any should beare his name vnlesse he should render himselfe woorthy thereof by vertue And as one day a souldier bearing the name of Alexander was accused before him to be voluptuous and lecherous he commanded him either to forsake that name or to change his life The Brasiliens as Iohn De Leri saith whom I had rather follow in that which he hath seene than a Spaniard impose names to their children of the first thing that commeth before them as if a bow and string come to their imagination they will call their child Ourapacen which signifieth a bow and a string and so consequently In regard of our Sauages they haue at this day names without signification which peraduenture in the first imposing of them did signifie some thing but as the tongues do change the knowledge thereof is lost Of all the names of them that I haue knowen I haue learned none sauing that Chkoudun signifieth a Trowt and Oigoudi the name of the riuer of the said Chkoudun which signifieth to see It is very certaine that names haue not beene imposed to what thing soeuer without reason For Adam gaue the name to euery liuing creature according to the property and nature thereof and consequently names haue beene giuen to men signifying something As Adam signifieth Man or that which is made of earth Euah signifieth the Mother of all liuing Abel weeping Cain possession Iesus a Sauiour Diuell a Slanderer Satan an aduersarie c. Among the Romans some were called Lucius because they were born at the breake of day Others Caesar for that the Mothers belly was cut at the birth of him that first did beare this name In like maner Lentulus Piso Fabius Cicero c. all nick-names giuen by reason of some accident like our Sauages names but with some more iudgement CHAP. III. Of the feeding of their Children ALmighty God shewing a true Mothers duty saith by the Prophet Esay Can a woman forget her child and not haue compassion on the Sonne of her wombe This pity which God requireth in Mothers is to giue the brest to their children and not to change the food which they haue giuen vnto them before their birth But at this day the most part make their brests to serue for alurements to whoredome and being willing to set themselues at ease free from the childrens noise do send them into the Country where peraduenture they be changed or giuen to bad nurses whose corruption and bad nature they sucke with their milke And from thence come the changelings weake and degenerate from the right stocke whose names they beare The Sauage women beare a greater loue than that towards their yong ones for none but themselues doe nourish them And that is generall thorowout all the West Indies likewise their brests are no baites of loue as in these our parts but rather loue in those lands is made by the flame that nature kindleth in euery one without annexing any arts to it either by painting amorous poisons or otherwise And for this maner of nursing their children are the ancient German women praised by Tacitus because that euery one did nurse their Children with her owne brests and would not haue suffered that another besides themselues should giue sucke to their children Now our Sauage women do giue vnto them with the dugge meats which they vse hauing first well chawed them and so by little and little bring them vp As for the swadling of them they that dwell in hot Countries and neere the Tropicks haue no care of it but leaue them free vnbound But drawing towards the North the mothers haue an euen smooth boord like the couering of a drawer or cupborod vpon which they lay the child wrapped in a Beauer fur vnles it be too hot and tied thereupon with some swadling band whom they carry on their
said Mill from the time that it is sowed vntill it be ready to be reaped is not aboue three monthes in the ground The six other monthes they suffer the ground to rest They also gather faire Pompians and very good beanes They doe not dung their land onely when they will sow they set the weeds on fire which are growen during the six monthes and burne them all They till their land with an Instrument of wood which is made like to a broad pickaxe wherewith they digg their vines in France They put two graines of mill together When the lands are to be sowed the king commandeth one of his men to call his subiects together euery day to come to labour during the which the king causeth great store of that drinke whereof we haue spoken to bee made In the season that the Corne is gathered it is all carried into the common store-house where it is distributed to euery one according to his qualitie They sowe but so much as they thinke will serue them for six moneths and that very hardly for during the winter they retire themselues three or foure moneths of the yeere into the woods where they make little houses of Palme leaues to lodge themselues in and there doe liue of acornes of fish which they take of oysters of Stagges Turkie hennes and other beasts that they take And seeing they haue townes and houses or Cibanes I may yet well put this among their exercises As for the Towns they be multitudes of Cabins made somwhat Piramide wise others in forme of a cottage others like garden bowres compast as it were with high pales of trees ioined one neere the other euen as I haue set out the town of Hochelaga in my mappe of the great riuer of Canada Furthermore one must not maruel of this shape of a town which might seeme simple seeing that the fairest townes of Moscouie haue no better inclosure The ancient Lacedemonians would haue no other walles then their courage and valour Before the generall sloud Cain did builde a town which he named Henoch I beleeue it was no otherwise made then those of our Sauages but he did feele the wrath of God which pursued him and had lost all assurance Men had but Cabins and Pauillions and as it is written of Iabal the sonne of Hada that he was the father of the dwellers in Tabernacles and of Shepheards After the floud they builded the tower of Babel but this was folly Tacitus writing of the maners of the Germans saith that in his time they had not any vse neither of lime nor stones The English Britons much lesse Our Gaullois were then from many ages before come to ciuility But yet were they along time in the beginning without any other habitations than Cabins and the first Gaullois king that built townes and houses was Magus who succeded his father the wise Samothes three hundred yeeres after the floud eight yeeres after the natiuitie of Abraham and the one and fiftie yeere of the raigne of Ninus as Berosius the Chaldean doth say And although they had buildings they lay notwithstanding on the ground vpon skinnes like to our Sauages And as in the ancient times the names were giuen which contained the qualities and acts of persons Magus was so called because hee was the first builder For in the Scythian and Armenian language from whence our Gaullois came shortly after the floud and in the ancient Gaullois toong Magus signifieth a builder saith the same Author and so hath Iohn Annius of Viterbe very well marked from whence came our names of the Townes of Rothomagus Neomagus Nouiomagus So likewise Samothes signifieth wise and the old Gaullois Philosophers were before the Druides called Samotheans as Diogenes Laertius reporteth who confesseth that Philosophie did begin from them whom the Greeke vanitie did call Barbarous I will adde heere for an exercise of our Sauages their play at hazard whereunto they are so addicted that sometimes they play out all that they haue And Iames Quartier writeth the same of them of Canada in the time that hee was there I haue seene a kind of game that they haue but not thinking then to write this treatie I tooke no heede to it They put some number of beanes coloured and painted of the one side in a platter and hauing stretched out a skinne on the ground they play there vpon striking with the dish vpon this skinne and by that meanes the beanes doe skippe in the aire and doe not all fall on that parte that they be coloured and in that consisteth the chance and hazard and according to their chance they haue a certaine number of quils made of rushes which they distribute to him that winneth for to keepe the reckoning CHAP. XVIII Of the Womens exercises THe woman was giuen in the beginning vnto Man not onely for to aide and assist him but also to be the store house of generation Their first exercise then that I will attribute vnto her after that she is married is to bring foorth goodly children and to assist her husband in this worke for this is the end of marriage And therfore is she very wel and fitly called in hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say pierced because it is meete that she be pierced if shee will imitate our common mother the Earth which in the Spring time desirous to bring forth openeth her bosome for to receaue the raine and dewes which the heauen powreth vpon her Now I find that this exercise shal be requisite for them that will inhabite New France to bring foorth there store of creatures which shall sing the praises of God There is land enough to nourish them so that they be willing to worke and their condition shall not be so miserable as it is with many in these partes which doe seeke to emploie themselues and doe not find wherein and albeit they find it yet very often is their labour vnrewarded and vnfruitfull But in that countrie he that will take pleasure and as it were sport himselfe with sweete labour he shall be assured to liue out of bondage and that his children shall yet be in better state then himselfe was The first exercise then of the woman is to worke in generation which is a labour so faire and so meritorious that the great Apostle S. Paul to consolate them in the paines they take in that labour hath said that the woman shall be saued through bearing of children if they remaine in faith and loue and holinesse with modesty That is to say If she instruct them in such sort that the godlinesse of the mother may be knowen by the good institution of the children This first and chiefest article being mentioned let vs come to the others Our Sauage women after they haue brought foorth the fruite of this exercise by I know not what practise doe obserue without law that which was commanded in the