The Jesuit Missions —— A Chronicle of the Cross, in the Wilderness

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ISBN: 9781331936237 出版年：2016 页码：185 Thomas Guthrie Marquis Forgotten Books

When the friars reached Quebec they arranged a division of labour in this manner: Jamay and Du Plessis were to remain at Quebec; d'olbeau was to return to Tadoussac and essay the thorny task of converting the tribes round that fishing and trading station while to Le Caron was assigned a more distant field, but one that promised a rich harvest. Six or seven hundred miles from Quebec, in the region of Lake Simcoe and the Georgian Bay, dwelt the Hurons, a sedentary people living in villages and practising a rude agridestruct.