. A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, sorbed those of their inhabitantswho were spared. The meaning of the name Iroquois is uncertain. Char-levoix says that the name is from hiro, I have spoken, a word withwhich these Indians close all their speeches, and kowey which when longdrawn out is a cry of sorrow, and when briefly uttered is an exclamation ofjoy. Hale, however, a most excellent authority, derives it from Jerokzua,meaning Tobacco People. Fide Histoire de la Nou
. A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, sorbed those of their inhabitantswho were spared. The meaning of the name Iroquois is uncertain. Char-levoix says that the name is from hiro, I have spoken, a word withwhich these Indians close all their speeches, and kowey which when longdrawn out is a cry of sorrow, and when briefly uttered is an exclamation ofjoy. Hale, however, a most excellent authority, derives it from Jerokzua,meaning Tobacco People. Fide Histoire de la Nouvelle France, Charle-voix, Paris, 1744, tome i, p. 421; Iroquois Book of Rites, Hale, pp. 9-12,51, 171; Mceurs des Sauvages, Lafitau, tome i, p. 32. 3 This island in the St. Lawrence, near Bic, is to-day known as Heau Massacre, which name was given it many years ago on account of thediscovery in a cave thereon of a large quantity of human bones. An ex-amination has proved these bones to be those of men, women, and has led to the belief that they were the relics of Donnaconas peopleand attest the truth of his story. 4 Honguedo. The present w SECOND VOYAGE out killed them all except five who escaped, for thewhich undoing they still greatly lamented, showingus that they would have vengeance for it; after whichthings we returned to our ships. OF THE MANNER OF LIVING OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SAIDLAND, AND OF CERTAIN CONDITIONS, BELIEF, AND MAN-NER OF MAKING WHAT THEY HAVE The said people have not any belief in God whichmay avail, for they believe in one whom they callCudouagny, and they say that he speaks frequently tothem and tells them what the weather should say also that when he is angry with them hethrows dirt in their eyes. They believe also thatwhen they depart they go to the stars, then go de-clining to the horizon like the said stars, then passinto fair fields toward plains of beautiful trees, flowers,and sumptuous fruits.^ After they had given us
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