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Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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d intimidation. Three devils — cunning ofIndian devils — came out to the ships, wrapped in hogges t^^ ravages.skins white and blacke, their faces besmeered as blacke as any coales, 1 Charlevoix (History of New France), asserts that the St. Croix and the St. Charlesare not the same. For the evidence and authorities that they are identical, see Sheasnotes to Charlevoix, vol. ii.,pp. 116, 117, and Parkmans Pioneers of New France, p. 185. 184 FRENCH DISCOVERIES. (Chap. VIII. with homes on their heads more than a yard long. ^ A crowd ofnatives followed howling and shrieking, and then with a hideous up-roar retreating to the woods. Taignoagny and Domagaia, in real orpretended fright, with clasped, uplifted hands, and eyes raised toheaven, cried out, Jesu! Jesu! Jesu Maria! declaring that thesedevils had come from Hochelaga, sent by the god of that people tosay that all should perish in the ice and snow who ventured thither.But the Christians could answer prophecy with prophecy, and beat
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Donnaconas Strategy. the heathen at their own game. The devilsthey only mocked at, and as for the Indiangod, Cudruaigny, he was declared to be noth-ing but a fool and a noddie. His messen-gers, they said, might take him word thatChrist would defend from the cold all who be-lieved in him, and though the French captainhad not himself talked with Jesus upon this subject, the priests had,and received from him a promise of fair weather. There was nothingcartier pro- T^^OYe to be Said. The devils were ignominiously defeated;st^Law^ ^^^ ^^^ worshippers of Cudruaigny gave three great shrieks inrence. tokcu of their acceptance of his discomfiture, and fell to sing- ing and dancing on the beach after their usual mad fashion. Cartier, 1 Narration of Cartier s Voyages, Hakluyt, vol. iii. 1535.) CARTIER AT HOCHELAGA. 185 with the smallest of his vessels, a pinnace, and two boats, started thenext day for Hochelaga. For thirteen days they sailed leisurely along the pleasant banks ofthe river, noting

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