File:Jacques Cartier setting up a cross at Gaspé (2).jpg

Identifier: indianhistoryfor00drak (find matches)
Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
es at their village of Stadacona, now Quebec ; the two natives Cartier had carried off, and who had been kindlytreated, acting as interpreters. He next ascended the river to the chiefIndian settlement of Hochelaga, the modern Montreal, which takes itsname from the neighboring elevation which they christened Mount Royal. Kvery artifice had been made use of by the Indians to prevent theirjourney to this place. They were jealous lest some of the knives, look-ing-glasses, and other trinkets should fall into the hands of the rival chief-tain and his people. Three of them, dressed as devils, wrapped in huge skins, white andblack, their faces besmeared and black as coals, an,d with horns on theirheads more than a yard long, tried to frighten Cartier, and after holdinga long powwow, declared to him that their god had spoken, and that therewas so much ice and snow at Hochelaga that whoever went thither shoulddie. The Frenchman only laughed at this trick, and told them that theirgod was a fool.
Text Appearing After Image:
JACQUES CARTIER ERECTS A CROSS EARLY EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE WITH THE INDIANS. 55 The Indian capital they found encompassed by a triple row of highpalisades of heavy timber, and having only a single gate of entrance.Over this, and elsewhere on the walls, were platforms for its defenders,provided with ladders and with stones for its defence. It contained some I Ife : A • • i B 1 , , I ^.^rx - ;,---;! i^viv fc-^t; > -

Note About Images