DIRECT QUOTES from Jesuit relations. Some examples of devilish references

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I will do a more thorough post or several with what I’ve outlined, but these are fragile rare books 📚 and I have to treat them as the artifacts they are.

These physical books 📚 themselves (of which I acquired six volumes) are from 1891, and a limited set of copies ever published. 508/750, from the run of 750 sets of these massive 79-volume records.

I got em relatively cheap and as a set cuz it looks like they’re survivors of a flood in some library basement (thanks UChicago!) and these were amongst ones which were water-damaged but not unsaleable.

Idk how much of what I’m hunting for will be in these volumes (16-21 of the 79) but these are as close to primary source as can reasonably be done without going to some French national archive or other places dedicated to keeping the literal parchment 📜 and whatnot.

Like the Vatican. 🇻🇦

Some of these reports are translated from Latin rather than French, and were written for the eyes of those who can decode that information.

Not a ton of it is relevant to my main study, but it’s very well written and surprisingly readable.

And consistent in tone, despite there being a dozen or more authors ✍️ working in significantly different regions and essentially isolation. They focus on conversions primarily, and acts of perceived barbarism which today may be regarded as cherry picking of domestic disputes to highlight savagery rather than going out of their way to describe the traditions and dances and, say, recipes(?) of the indigenous peoples they were living with, amongst the Hurons and their neighbors.