. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, absolutely free and did that which seemed to him bestfeu- his own interests. Each mans, and womans, liberty was absolute and in-violable. A Xijiissing came as lUar as f<--ilc 1 iioiisseaus ])erfect and • idealman. lie was untainted by civilization, did what be liked, Avas moved only bynatural imj^idses. a]id if (according to the French deist. Vliomme qui rcflccliif rstvn aniiinil dipntre—the man who meditates is a brute.) the Xipissing was not afree and inde])endent man. tbeii there was no absolute rieedum or inilependence onearth. ? LAlilte .T. A
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, absolutely free and did that which seemed to him bestfeu- his own interests. Each mans, and womans, liberty was absolute and in-violable. A Xijiissing came as lUar as f<--ilc 1 iioiisseaus ])erfect and • idealman. lie was untainted by civilization, did what be liked, Avas moved only bynatural imj^idses. a]id if (according to the French deist. Vliomme qui rcflccliif rstvn aniiinil dipntre—the man who meditates is a brute.) the Xipissing was not afree and inde])endent man. tbeii there was no absolute rieedum or inilependence onearth. ? LAlilte .T. A. ru()<;s L(xi<|ue do la laii^ue Al^oinniiiic — Dictionary of Uio Alu(iiM|iiiilaiifiuago —is built from llio Xij^ssiiifi tlialect, a root laii<iuas alouo ro])rosoiilcil llnoriginal type of the Algonquin stor-k and langnago. 18 AECH^OLOGICAL EEPOET. ^=H ^ -> ^ ^. >i gi, B^^|*J^j m ^ jj^bMD f * a, ^TjBji^ ^. AECH.^OLOGICAL EEPOET. 19 Co:nixG OF THE Missionaries. When the two Jesuit priests, Claude Pijart and Charles Eaymbault, in IGiO,came to the shores of Lake Nipissing and looked out upon its pleasant waters, anumerous band of Xipissings villaged on land lying between Trout Lake and LakeXipissing. The habits, traits of character, customs and manners of the Nipissings,with whom the early missionaries came into immediate contact, were those of alltheir Algonquin kinsmen, in their primitive state, from Isle des Allumettes on theOttawa Eiver to Sault Sainte Marie, Lake Superior. The Nipissings then dweltin cabins of rude construction, and were grouped together in scattered villages, ormore often in scattered bourgs. These wretched squattings were but temporaryabodes; for when conditions were unfavourable, or a contagious disease threatenedthe lives of the community, they burned their shacks and chose another site. Theirmiserable shelters were always temporary cabins, which were raised or ta
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