ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1914, . tes Sagard. It was because of his intimate familiaritywith the Huron language that he was selected to be the companion of FatherBrebeuf on the mission to the Attiwandarons whose speech was that of the Hurons-though differing in dialect. Joseph Chaumonot was a man whose nature was-childlike even to credulity, timid even unto fear; an intellect incapable ofhigh development, a character in which there was nothing striking, yet a manwho, under the divine influence of grace and by the austere practice of thehighest virtues, became one of the most beautiful fi
ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1914, . tes Sagard. It was because of his intimate familiaritywith the Huron language that he was selected to be the companion of FatherBrebeuf on the mission to the Attiwandarons whose speech was that of the Hurons-though differing in dialect. Joseph Chaumonot was a man whose nature was-childlike even to credulity, timid even unto fear; an intellect incapable ofhigh development, a character in which there was nothing striking, yet a manwho, under the divine influence of grace and by the austere practice of thehighest virtues, became one of the most beautiful figures in the early missionarvlife of Canada. (Eochemonteix, vol. Ill, p. 399.) In the first week of Novem-ber, 1640. the two missionaries, Brebeuf and Chaumonot, bade farewell to theirpriestly companions at Sainte Marie of the Hurons and after a trying experienceextending over a period of five days arrived at the frontier Neutral village ofKandoucho which they named .-Ml Saints. Almost at once the devoted men 12 AKCIlvEOLOGICAL John de Bb^jbeuf, Missionary to the Attiwandaions. AllClI^OLOGlCAL REPOKT. 13 encountered ;i sloiiii of dppdsilion. The detiiils coverinfi; their experiences andobservations are recorded in the Ilelalion of 1()41, wliere we read that theNeutral nation occupied about forty towns inhal)ited by twelve thousand souls.* Hardly had the missionaries crossed into Att ivvaiwhiron territory when theyencountered a serious opposition and an open hostility unforeseen and messengers, carrying to the Neutral chiefs valuable gifts and some Frenchaxes, had entered the territory before the missionaries, and warned the warriorsto be on their guard against the black-gowns if they wished to save their is hard to credit, writes Lalemant, the tremendous effect produced uponthese poor savages by the stories of the Ilurons. The report circulated amongthem of our great power for evil wrought upon their naturally defiant andcourageous spirit
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