ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1914, . has, we are satisfied, mistaken the Kandoucho of Brebeuf andChaumonots time, named by them—1640—All Saints. This first village is notmentioned by name in Daillons letter or by Le Clercq or Sagard. 10 ARCH^OLOGICAL REPORT. melancholy people, who live only on snakes and poison: that we eat thunder,which they imagine to be an unparalleled chimera, relating a thousand strangestories about it; that we all had tails like animals; that the women had onlyone nipple in the centre of the breast; that they bare five or six children at atime: adding a thousand other
ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1914, . has, we are satisfied, mistaken the Kandoucho of Brebeuf andChaumonots time, named by them—1640—All Saints. This first village is notmentioned by name in Daillons letter or by Le Clercq or Sagard. 10 ARCH^OLOGICAL REPORT. melancholy people, who live only on snakes and poison: that we eat thunder,which they imagine to be an unparalleled chimera, relating a thousand strangestories about it; that we all had tails like animals; that the women had onlyone nipple in the centre of the breast; that they bare five or six children at atime: adding a thousand other absurdities to make us hated by them, and preventthem trading with us, so that they might have the trade with the French tothemselves exclusively, which is very profitable to them. They also assertedthat the priest was a great sorcerer, that when among the Hurons he introducedthe plague which destroyed hundreds. By his sorcery, they contended, he wouldpoison their streams, drive away the game and destroy their crops. The Neutrals. Aboriginal Deer Hunting, Chauiplaiii. were overcome with fear. A sorcerer was, of living men, the most malignant,most powerful for evil and the most dreaded. Sorcerers were remorselessly the accusation had been brought home to one of their own he would haveperished that night. They dared not slay the priest for they dreaded the ven-geance of the French. But from the hour the charge was brought against liirahe became a victim of abuse, insult, scorn and contumely. His mission was afailure, his hopes dead, his expectations buried. He returned to the Huron country and there, on July 18, 16^7, in theIndian town of Toanche, wrote his valuable letter. In this letter he recordshis own experience with the tribe, tells of wdiat he saw and heard, expresseshopes for their conversion and declares himself to be The most humble servant ARCH^OLOGICAI. KEPOKT. u of our Lord,—Joseph de Lii Hoche dAillon. Father Daillon left the Huron country in the aut
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