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The festins
Radisson knew that the Indians had implicit faith in dreams; so Radisson had a dream. He realized as critics of Indian customs fail to understand that the fearful privations of savage life teach the crime of waste. The Indian will eat the last morsel of food set before him if he dies for it. He believes that the gods punish waste of food by famine. The belief is a religious principle and the feasts festins
I have seen our whole noblesse at one of these festins, kept on the highway in summer, mingled with an immense crowd of peasants, mules, and asses, covered with dust, and sweating at every pore with the excessive heat of the weather.
"To judge by his expression, the man seems ambitious of 'les succes de salon, also. Where did he import his manners from, I wonder? they have a sort of bright, new look, as if he had not yet worn the gloss off." "Don't laugh at him; he gives excellent dinners." "Does he? Can't you introduce me, immediately? 'Ici l'ont fait noces et festins. I seem to smell the turtle-soup, already."
Et, apres en avoir rendu louange a Dieu, les mena en sa pauvre maisonnette, et leur monstra de quoy elle vivoit durant sa demeure; ce que leur eust este incroiable, sans la congnoissance qu'ilz avoient que Dieu est puissant de nourrir en un desert ses serviteurs, comme au plus grandz festins du monde.
Speaking of one of the four nations of which the Hurons were composed, he says: "Ils ont vne douceur et vne affabilite quasi incroyable pour des Sauuages; ils ne se picquent pas aisement. . . . Ils se maintiennent dans cette si parfaite intelligence par les frequentes visites, les secours qu'ils se donnent mutuellement dans leurs maladies, par les festins et les alliances. . . . Ils sont moins en leurs Cabanes que chez leurs amis. . . S'ils ont vn bon morceau, ils en font festin a leurs amis, et ne le mangent quasi iamais en leur particulier," etc.
"De vostre Reuerence tres-humbles et tres-affectionnez seruiteurs en Nostre Seigneur, "En la Residence de la Conception, a Ossossane, ce 28 Octobre. The imperilled Jesuits now took a singular, but certainly a very wise step. They gave one of those farewell feasts festins d'adieu which Huron custom enjoined on those about to die, whether in the course of Nature or by public execution.
"Ce sont des richesses que nous possedons en abondance & vos festins ne se peuuent pas termíner plus agreablement que par nos dragées de Verdun en vos quartiers. Elles ont parmy les charmantes delicatesses de leur succre, de leur canelle, & de leur anis, vne douce & suaue odeur qui égale celles de l'air de nos Canaries, c'est
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