de la croix, et prend elle-meme de l'eau benite; et une fois se mit a
crier, sortant de la Chapelle, a cause que sa mere qui la portoit ne lui
avoit donne le loisir d'en prendre. Il l'a fallu reporter en prendre."--
Lettres de Garnier, MSS. ]

As the town of Ihonatiria, where the Jesuits had made their first abode,
was ruined by the pestilence, the mission established there, and known by
the name of St. Joseph, was removed, in the summer of 1638, to
Teanaustaye, a large town at the foot of a range of hills near the
southern borders of the Huron territory. The Hurons, this year, had had
unwonted successes in their war with the Iroquois, and had taken, at
various times, nearly a hundred prisoners. Many of these were brought to
the seat of the new mission of St. Joseph, and put to death with
frightful tortures, though not before several had been converted and
baptized. The torture was followed, in spite of the remonstrances of the
priests, by those cannibal feasts customary with the Hurons on such
occasions. Once, when the Fathers had been strenuous in their
denunciations, a hand of the victim, duly prepared, was flung in at their
door, as an invitation to join in the festivity. As the owner of the
severed member had been baptized, they dug a hole in their chapel,
and buried it with solemn rites of sepulture. [ Lalemant, Relation des
Hurons, 1639, 70. ]




CHAPTER XII.

1639, 1640.