Letters, 1661 on impoverished Huron refugees on Lake Superior

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]  cinq enfans, femme paisible, & qui est tout le iour dans son petit ménage; elle m'amena l'aisné de ses enfans, qui est vne fille aagée de seize ans, pour l'instruire; afin, disoit-elle, que Dieu eust pitié de sa fille, & qu'il luy rendist la santé, qu'elle avoit perduë depuis quelques mois: elle avoit vn reume habituel, qui luy estouffoit la voix, & luy ostoit l'vsage de la parole. Ie la fis prier Dieu, & en suite ie la fis seigner, ce qui luy rendit la parole, apres quoy la mere me vint presenter toute sa famille pour estre instruite, Dieu se servant de tout pour le salut de ses Eleus. I'esprouvay d'vne bonne façon leur pieté, & les ayant trouvées fortes & bien disposées pour le Baptesme, ie le conferay en mesme temps à la mere, & aux enfans; qui depuis ce temps-là sont tres reconnoissans


five children, a peaceable woman, occupied all day long in her little home. She brought me the eldest of her children, a girl sixteen years old, asking me to instruct her, in order, said she, that God might take pity on her daughter and restore her health, which she had lost a few months before. She had a constant cold, which choked her voice and deprived her of speech. I made her pray, and then I had her bled, which restored her voice. Thereupon the mother came to present all her family to me for the purpose of having them instructed, God making use of all means for the salvation of the Elect. I made proper trial of their piety, and having found them strong in the faith and well-disposed for Baptism, I conferred it at the same time upon the mother and upon the children. Since then they have been very grateful