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[English translation]
on the water, with our sails as a protection against the Mosquitoes and the rays of the Sun. While drifting down with the current, in this condition, we perceived on land some Indians armed with guns, who awaited us. I at once offered them my plumed Calumet, while our Frenchmen prepared for defense, but delayed firing, that the savages might be the first to discharge their guns. I spoke to them in Huron, but they answered me by a word which seemed to me a declaration of war against us. However, they were as frightened as we were; and what we took for a signal for battle was an Invitation that they gave us to draw near, that they might give us food. We therefore landed, and entered their cabins, where they offered us meat from bison and Bear's grease, with white plums, which are very good. They have guns, hatchets, hoes, knives, beads, and flasks of double glass, in which they put their powder. They wear their hair long, and tattoo their bodies after the Iroquois fashion. The women wear head-dresses and garments like those of the Huron women. They assured us that we were no more than ten days' journey from the sea; that they bought cloth and all other goods from the Europeans who lived to the east; that these Europeans had rosaries and pictures; that they played upon Instruments; that some of them looked like me,
[OCR of French page; consult page images for accurate text]
14 Dkouverte ^ant avec iibs voiles pour nous mettre a ecu vert im Maringoiiins Sc des rayons du Soleil. Comma iaous nous laiffons aller en cet eftat au gre de i'eau, nous apperceufmes A terre des Sauvages armez de fuzils, avec lefquels ils nous atten¬ doient; je leur prefentay d%ord men Calumet empanache, peiidant que nos Francois fe met-, tent en deffenfe, & attendoient a tirer que Ies Sauvages eulFent fait^a premiere defcharge 5 je leur parlai en Huron,mais ils ne repondirent pas un mot, ce qui me parut nous declarer la guer¬ re ; ils avoient neantmoins autant de peur que nous ,&; ce que nous prenions pour fignal de guerre eftoit une invitation qu'ils faifo'ient de lions approcher pour nous donner a manger. Nous debarquons done Sc nous entrons dans leurs cabannes oil ils noiis prefentent da bosuf faifvage & de Fhuile d'Ours, avec des pru* nes blanches, qui font excellentes ; ils ont des jflizils,des baches, Sc des holies, des coufteaux, de la rafade, des bouteilles de verre double, oii ils mettent leur poudre ; Ils ont les chcveux longs & fe marqucnt a la fagon des Iroquois, IcsiTemmes font veftucs & coifFees comme des Hurones; ils nous affeurent quil n'y a plus que dix journees jufqueS ala mer, qif ils achetoienr les eftofRs des Europeans qui eftoient du cofte de FEft; que les Europeans avoient des Images ^ des Chapelets, qifils jolioient des inftru¬ ments, qu'ily en avoit defiiitscouimc moy^
Object Description
Page Title | Découverte de quelques pays et nations de l´Amerique Septentrionale [The Discovery of Several Countries and Nations in North America] |
Author | Thevenot, Melchisedec, 1620-1692 |
Place of Publication | Paris |
Source Publisher | Estienne Michallet |
Source Creation Date | 1681 |
Language | French |
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 | TP013000 |
Description |
After Joliet and Marquette returned from their 1673 Mississippi voyage, French officials refrained from publishing their findings. Several manuscripts telling their story circulated in Paris, however, based on a report by Fr. Claude Dablon of an interview with Joliet. Melchisédec Thévenot, an editor who specialized in printing voyages to exotic places, secured one of these unauthorized manuscripts and adapted Marquette's text for the little volume excerpted here. To make it appeal to audiences who were not fond of the Jesuits, he stripped out virtually all Marquette's religious remarks and turned it into a purely geographical account like the other's he had published. Thevenot's book printed the news of the Marquette and Joliet voyage for the first time, and also published the first map to show the full course of the Mississippi (given elsewhere at Turning Points). We provide here images of the original French pages from 1681 for students who might like to stretch their language skills, as well as an English translation. To see the English text of any French page, click "Page & Text." |
Owner | Wisconsin Historical Society Library |
Format | Text |
Recommended Citation | Thevenot, Melchisedec. "Découverte de quelques pays et nations de l´Amerique Septentrionale [par le P. Marquette]" in Recueil de Voyages de Mr Thevenot. ... (Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1681); online facsimile at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=13 |
Document Number | TP013 |
Size | p. 1-43 ; 18 cm. |
URL | Thevenot, Melchisedec. "Découverte de quelques pays et nations de l´Amerique Septentrionale [par le P. Marquette]" in Recueil de Voyages de Mr Thevenot. ... (Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1681); online facsimile at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=13 |
Owner Collection | Rare Book Collection |
Owner Object ID | G159 T38 |
Genre | travel narrative |
County | Brown County; Columbia County; Crawford County; Dane County; Grant County; Green Lake County; Iowa County; Marquette County; Outagamie County; Richland County; Sauk County; Winnebago County; |
State/Province | Wisconsin; Arkansas; Illinois; Iowa, Kentucky; Mississippi; Missouri; Tennessee |
Gender | male |
Race and Ethnicity | Native Americans; French Americans; |
Sub-Topic | Arrival of the First Europeans; Wild Rice Harvesting |
Event Date | 1673 |
Event Years | 1673 |
Agriculture | Corn; Fruit; Wild Rice |
Animals | Birds; Insects; Mammals; Marine Animals |
Archaeology | Rock Paintings |
Art | Indian dance; Jewelry; |
Buildings | Dwellings; |
Domestic Life | Clothing and dress; Food; Implements, utensils, etc.; |
Religion | Missionaries; Priests; Rites and ceremonies |
Topography | Prairie; Rivers |
Transportation | Canoes and canoeing |
Indian Tribe | Illinois; Kickapoo; Mascouten; Menominee; Miami; Shawnee |
Type | Text |
Description
Page Title | 34 |
Author | Thevenot, Melchisedec, 1620-1692 |
Place of Publication | Paris |
Source Publisher | Estienne Michallet |
Source Creation Date | 1681 |
Language | French |
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 | TP013035 |
Owner | Wisconsin Historical Society Library |
Format | Text |
Size | 18 cm. |
Owner Collection | Rare Book Collection |
Owner Object ID | G159 T38 |
Full Text |
[English translation]
on the water, with our sails as a protection against the Mosquitoes and the rays of the Sun. While drifting down with the current, in this condition, we perceived on land some Indians armed with guns, who awaited us. I at once offered them my plumed Calumet, while our Frenchmen prepared for defense, but delayed firing, that the savages might be the first to discharge their guns. I spoke to them in Huron, but they answered me by a word which seemed to me a declaration of war against us. However, they were as frightened as we were; and what we took for a signal for battle was an Invitation that they gave us to draw near, that they might give us food. We therefore landed, and entered their cabins, where they offered us meat from bison and Bear's grease, with white plums, which are very good. They have guns, hatchets, hoes, knives, beads, and flasks of double glass, in which they put their powder. They wear their hair long, and tattoo their bodies after the Iroquois fashion. The women wear head-dresses and garments like those of the Huron women. They assured us that we were no more than ten days' journey from the sea; that they bought cloth and all other goods from the Europeans who lived to the east; that these Europeans had rosaries and pictures; that they played upon Instruments; that some of them looked like me, [OCR of French page; consult page images for accurate text] 14 Dkouverte ^ant avec iibs voiles pour nous mettre a ecu vert im Maringoiiins Sc des rayons du Soleil. Comma iaous nous laiffons aller en cet eftat au gre de i'eau, nous apperceufmes A terre des Sauvages armez de fuzils, avec lefquels ils nous atten¬ doient; je leur prefentay d%ord men Calumet empanache, peiidant que nos Francois fe met-, tent en deffenfe, & attendoient a tirer que Ies Sauvages eulFent fait^a premiere defcharge 5 je leur parlai en Huron,mais ils ne repondirent pas un mot, ce qui me parut nous declarer la guer¬ re ; ils avoient neantmoins autant de peur que nous ,&; ce que nous prenions pour fignal de guerre eftoit une invitation qu'ils faifo'ient de lions approcher pour nous donner a manger. Nous debarquons done Sc nous entrons dans leurs cabannes oil ils noiis prefentent da bosuf faifvage & de Fhuile d'Ours, avec des pru* nes blanches, qui font excellentes ; ils ont des jflizils,des baches, Sc des holies, des coufteaux, de la rafade, des bouteilles de verre double, oii ils mettent leur poudre ; Ils ont les chcveux longs & fe marqucnt a la fagon des Iroquois, IcsiTemmes font veftucs & coifFees comme des Hurones; ils nous affeurent quil n'y a plus que dix journees jufqueS ala mer, qif ils achetoienr les eftofRs des Europeans qui eftoient du cofte de FEft; que les Europeans avoient des Images ^ des Chapelets, qifils jolioient des inftru¬ ments, qu'ily en avoit defiiitscouimc moy^ |
Event Date | 1673 |
Event Years | 1673 |
Type | Text |