ain left Canada, and
took up his residence among the Mohawks. He indulged in the largest
expectations of converting them to popery, but the Mohawks with their
hatchets put him to a violent death. They then brought and presented to
me his missal and breviary together with his underclothing, shirts and
coat. When I said to them that I would not have thought that they would
have killed this Frenchman, they answered, that the Jesuits did not
consider the fact, that their people (the French) were always planning
to kill the Dutch.

In the year 1644 our Indians again took captive a Jesuit,(1) who had
been treated in the same manner as to his hands and fingers as the
above mentioned. The Jesuit was brought to us naked, with his maimed
and bloody fingers. We clothed him, placed him under the care of our
surgeon, and he almost daily fed at my table. This Jesuit, a native of
Rouen,(2) was ransomed by us from the Indians, and we sent him by ship
to France. He also returned again from France to Canada. He wrote me a
letter, as the previously mentioned one had done, thanking me for the
benefits I had conferred on him. He stated also that he had not argued,
when with me, on the subject of religion, yet he had felt deeply
interested in me on account of my soul, and admonished me to come again
into the Papal Church from which I had separated myself. In each case I
returned such a reply that a second letter was never sent me.

(1) Father Giuseppe Bressani (1612-1672).

(2) Of Rome, in fact.

The French have now for some time been at peace with our Indians. In
consequence thereof, it has happened that several Jesuits have again
gone among our Indians, who are located about four or five days' journey
from Fort Orange. But they did not permanently locate themselves there.
All returned to Canada except one, named Simon Le Moyne. He has several
times accompanied the Indians out of their own country, and visited
Fort Orange. At length he came here to the Manhattans, doubtless at the
invitation of Papists living here, especially for the sake of the French
privateers, who are Papists, and have arrived here with a good prize.

He represented that he had heard the other Jesuits speak much of me, who
had also highly praised me for the favors and benefits I had shown them;
that he therefore could not, while present here, neglect personally to
pay his respects to me, and thank me for the kindness extended to their
Society. 1. He told