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1696-1702] CARHEIL TO CALLlkRES 211 necessity of sending any among the savages than that of keeping garrisons there, which must be Commanded by some one — it is perfectly useless to Send any; because the garrisons themselves are quite unnecessary, except for the trade of the Comman¬ dants and their own trade. They are necessary only for those two trades; as regards all the Rest, they are of no use either to the savages or to the voyageurs, to whom the trade belongs, or to the missionaries. In the first place, they are of no use to the savages as regards war, either in their villages or outside them: in the villages they are Useless, because the method common to all these barbarous nations of carrying on warfare does not consist, Like ours, in going to assault one another's Villages, because they will never expose themselves to the danger of losing men Which is unavoidable in Such assaults. They carry on war only by surprises, by Ambushes, by Secret approaches, and by sudden and unforeseen discharges in the Fields, in the woods, while fishing and hunting, and everywhere else when they can discover one another outside their Villages. So, for That Reason, the garrisons are Useless to them as support; and are still more so outside the villages—-where the garrisons not only would not follow them, but cannot do so. For the soldiers are Unable to perform the movements that the savages perform in the woods, and in all sorts of places that are impracticable to all but themselves and the animals; and the soldiers are far from being able to assist them. On the Contrary, the savages themselves would have to help extricate them from the difficulties in which they would be placed on expeditions As difficult as Those through The Thick
Object Description
Page Title | Letter by Reverend Father Etienne de Carheil to Monsieur Louis Hector de Callieres, governor [on conditions in the Upper Lakes in 1702] |
Author | Carheil, Etienne de, 1633-1726 |
Place of Publication | Cleveland |
Source Publisher | Burrows Brothers Co. |
Source Creation Date | 1900 |
Language | English |
Digital Format | XML |
Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Rights | We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. |
Electronic Publication Date | 2004 |
Digital Identifier | TP016000 |
Description | Father Carheil explains -- at times in graphic detail -- how lust and greed corrupted nearly everyone connected with the fur trade at the western posts. Fur trade voyageurs, hunters, explorers and merchants have been romanticized so often that we benefit from seeing its dark side through his eyes. Carheil reveals how French colonialism affected the everyday lives of young French clerks, teenage Indian girls, hardened soldiers, and tribal elders, and asks the government to end the excesses. We have digitized here only the English translation, on the odd-numbered pages, and omitted the facing French text. |
Owner | Wisconsin Historical Society Library |
Format | Text |
Recommended Citation | Carheil, Etienne de. "Letter ... to Monsieur Louis Hector de Callières, governor [on conditions in the Upper Lakes in 1702]." The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents...(Cleveland: 1895), vol. LXV: 188-253); online facsimile at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=16 |
Document Number | TP016 |
Size | p. 189-253 ; 23 cm. |
URL | http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=16 |
Owner Collection | Stacks |
Owner Object ID | F1030.7 C96 |
Series | The Jesuit relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 |
Genre | Jesuit relation; letter; translation |
State/Province | Wisconsin |
Race and Ethnicity | Native Americans; French Americans; |
Sub-Topic | The French Fur Trade; Colonialism Transforms Indian Life; |
Event Date | 1702 |
Event Years | 1702 |
Politics | Indians of North America Government relations; |
Recreation | Gambling; Leisure activities; |
Religion | Missions; Clergy; Missionaries; Priests; Religious education; Rites and ceremonies; |
Social Relations | Race relations; |
Manufacturing and Industry | Fur trade |
War | War; Soldiers; |
Service Industries | Prostitution; |
Type | Text |
Description
Page Title | 211 |
Author | Carheil, Etienne de, 1633-1726 |
Place of Publication | Cleveland |
Source Publisher | Burrows Brothers Co. |
Source Creation Date | 1900 |
Language | English |
Digital Format | JPG |
Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Rights | We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. |
Electronic Publication Date | 2004 |
Digital Identifier | TP016012 |
Owner | Wisconsin Historical Society Library |
Format | Text |
Size | 23 cm. |
Owner Collection | Stacks |
Owner Object ID | F1030.7 C96 |
Series | The Jesuit relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 |
Full Text | 1696-1702] CARHEIL TO CALLlkRES 211 necessity of sending any among the savages than that of keeping garrisons there, which must be Commanded by some one — it is perfectly useless to Send any; because the garrisons themselves are quite unnecessary, except for the trade of the Comman¬ dants and their own trade. They are necessary only for those two trades; as regards all the Rest, they are of no use either to the savages or to the voyageurs, to whom the trade belongs, or to the missionaries. In the first place, they are of no use to the savages as regards war, either in their villages or outside them: in the villages they are Useless, because the method common to all these barbarous nations of carrying on warfare does not consist, Like ours, in going to assault one another's Villages, because they will never expose themselves to the danger of losing men Which is unavoidable in Such assaults. They carry on war only by surprises, by Ambushes, by Secret approaches, and by sudden and unforeseen discharges in the Fields, in the woods, while fishing and hunting, and everywhere else when they can discover one another outside their Villages. So, for That Reason, the garrisons are Useless to them as support; and are still more so outside the villages—-where the garrisons not only would not follow them, but cannot do so. For the soldiers are Unable to perform the movements that the savages perform in the woods, and in all sorts of places that are impracticable to all but themselves and the animals; and the soldiers are far from being able to assist them. On the Contrary, the savages themselves would have to help extricate them from the difficulties in which they would be placed on expeditions As difficult as Those through The Thick |
Event Date | 1702 |
Event Years | 1702 |
Type | Text |