but I can assure you their counmuch mildness that my What appeared to me most endearing in all this was that all our Huron Christians and the captive women, lighted this fire which melts the hearts of the Iroquois. They told them so much tenances told more than their tongues, and expressed joy mingled with so

heart was full.

good of us, and spoke so often of the great value of the Faith, that they prize it without being acand they love us in the hope that we shall be for them what we have been for the

quainted with it Indians.

;

To return to the Father's Journal

The 11th day of August. occurred, however,

at night.

There is nothing but feasts and rejoicings every where. A misfortune A cabin catching fire, no one knew how, an impetuous wind drove

the flames to the others, and in less than two hours more than twenty were reduced to ashes, and God preserved all hearts however in the remainder of the village was in danger of being burnt. the joy of the preceding day, and their dispositions as calm towards me as if this misfortune had

never happened.

Our Christian captives wishing to confess before my departure gave me employment, I reI baptized a little girl of four years who was dying. or rather repose which I wished for.

The 12th.

covered from the hands of these barbarians, the New Testament of the late Father Jean de Brebouf, whom they put to a cruel death five years ago, and a small book of devotion which was used by the late Father Charles Gamier