etarita

Updated: July 5, 2025

By ill luck, the Iroquois captured a Tobacco Indian and his squaw, straggling in the forest not far from St. Jean; and the two prisoners, to propitiate them, told them the defenceless condition of the place, where none remained but women, children, and old men. The delighted Iroquois no longer hesitated, but silently and swiftly pushed on towards the town. Jean was Etarita; and that of St.

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century