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612 AT CA UGIrArA WA GA, P. ~ [Aug.,
for housekeeping in place of roaming in the forest. Her first
knowledge of Christianity was derived from the teaching of
some missionaries who passed through the village. Some time
later P~re Jacques de Lamberville arrived at Gandahonague' and
received orders to establish a mission. Tegakouita felt a strong
desire to become a Christian, but did not make it known, being
afraid of her uncle. In the autumn it was customary for the men
and women to go out and gather in the harvest of maize. That
year a wounded foot kept Tegakouita at home. The father, interrupted in his instructidns by the general exodus to the fields,
took this season for visiting the wigwams, in one of which he
found Tegakouita. He instructed her, and, after seeing he~ overcome many trials, baptized her on Easter day, 1676. She suffered
untold persecutions, until an adopted sister, who was married and
settled in La Frairie de la Madeleine, sent her husband, a zealous
Christian Indian, to conduct Catherine to that haven, where, after
a toilsome journey, she arrived in October, 1677. Catherine had
always shown a most determined aversion to the marriage state,
and had resisted all attempts to induce her to accept a husband;
and her confessor, becoming convinced that she knew her own
mind, permitted her to consecrate herself to God by a vow.*
After visiting scenes hallowed by the traces of the Jesuit
missionaries, and dwelling on the simplicity and poverty of their
early converts, it gives one rather a revulsion of feeling to enter
the luxurious home of Grand Chief Williams-a house giving
evidence of the wealth and good taste of its owner. Here we
were shown a photograph of the band who went to Windsor
Castle to play lacrosse before Queen Victoria, and also another
group of Iroquois photographed in Germany, in which country
Chief Williams' father did considerable business in selling Indian curiosities. The chief's daughter, a pretty child of about
fourteen years, is a very fair musician, and entertained us at her
handsome piano. This young lady is a small princess in the village, and, being an only child, holds very decided sway over her
indulgent father.
On the roadside, as we stroll to the end of the village street,
is a curious-looking old tomb, an erection of earth, stone, and
wood, almost as large as a small cabin. It is grass-grown and
shaded by a tree that has sprung from its foundations. On a
stone let in the fr~nt of this doorless dwelling we read:
* Rev. J. A. cuoq, of the Seminary of St. Sulpice, has written a life of Catherine Te~akouita
in Iroquois for the benefit of her tribe. The same zealous missionary has compiled a valuable
and comprehensive work entitled Lexique de la Langue Iroquoise, avec notes et ap~endices.