1632, 1633.

PAUL LE JEUNE.


LE JEUNE'S VOYAGE.--HIS FIRST PUPILS.--HIS STUDIES.--
HIS INDIAN TEACHER.--WINTER AT THE MISSION-HOUSE.--
LE JEUNE'S SCHOOL.--REINFORCEMENTS.


In another narrative, we have seen how the Jesuits, supplanting the
Recollet friars, their predecessors, had adopted as their own the rugged
task of Christianizing New France. We have seen, too, how a descent of
the English, or rather of Huguenots fighting under English colors,
had overthrown for a time the miserable little colony, with the mission
to which it was wedded; and how Quebec was at length restored to France,
and the broken thread of the Jesuit enterprise resumed. [ "Pioneers of
France." ]

It was then that Le Jeune had embarked for the New World. He was in his
convent at Dieppe when he received the order to depart; and he set forth
in haste for Havre, filled, he assures us, with inexpressible joy at the
prospect of a living or a dying martyrdom. At Rouen he was joined by De
Noue, with a lay brother named Gilbert; and the three sailed together on
the eighteenth of April, 1632. The sea treated them roughly; Le Jeune
was wretchedly sea-sick; and the ship nearly foundered in a gale.
At length they came in sight of "that miserable country," as the
missionary calls the scene of his future labors. It was in the harbor of
Tadoussac that he first encountered the objects of his apostolic cares;