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Excerpt from The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 18: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791; The Original French, Latin, and Italian Text, With English Translations and Notes; Illustrated by Portraits, Maps, and Facsimiles
Le Jeune praises the virtue and piety of the colo nists. He relates that a plague of grasshoppers and other insects was immediately driven away by some prayers and processions. The people enjoy good health; the soil is prolific; peace and content pre vail. By way of diversion for the people, and honor to the infant Dauphin of France, Montmagny has a miracle play or tragi-comedy performed, under the charge of Martial Piraube. For the benefit of the savages, there is introduced therein the soul of an unbeliever, pursued by two demons, who finally hurl it into a hell which vomits forth ?ames. The struggles, cries, and shrieks of this soul-and of these demons, who speak in the Algonquin tongue, so deep ly penetrates the hearts of some, that a savage, two days later, tells of hideous dreams, inspired by the spectacle.
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