Nova Francia: A Description of Acadia, 1606

by Lescarbot,Marc

• ISBN13: 9780415344685
• ISBN10: 0415344689
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This edition first published in 1928. Nova Franciais an account of the foundation of the first French colony in Acadia in 1606. The author, Marc Lescarbot, had an inquisitive mind and an independent outlook, with a special faculty for clear thinking, and it is this authorial style which gives the work its unique value. To read Lescarbot is to enter again into the outlook of an intelligent Frenchman of the sixteenth century.

Table of Contents

The patent and commission of the French king to Monsieur de Monts for the inhabiting of the countries of La Cadia, Canada, and other places in New France, from the 40th degree to the 46th	p. 1
The voyage of Monsieur de Monts into New France	p. 7
The leaving of Port du Mouton	p. 12
The description of the River Saint John	p. 18
A farther description of the Ile Sainte Croix	p. 26
The buildings of the Ile Sainte Croix	p. 32
The discovery of new lands by Monsieur de Monts	p. 48
The arrival of Monsieur du Pont at Sainte Croix	p. 55
The first motive and acceptation of the voyage by Monsieur de Poutrincourt	p. 61
The name of our ship called the Jonas	p. 64
Their departure from La Rochelle	p. 70
Of the great banks of Morues or Cods	p. 78
The happy meeting of Monsieur du Pont	p. 90
Their departing from the Ile Sainte Croix	p. 98
Dangers	p. 106
The condition of the corn which they sowed	p. 117
The arrival of the French	p. 125
The Port de Campseau	p. 136
Of the nativity	p. 147
Of the imposing of names	p. 149
Of the bringing up of children	p. 151
Of the love towards children	p. 153
Of religion	p. 155
Of the soothsayers and Aoutmoins	p. 172
Of the language	p. 180
Of learning	p. 185
Of clothes and of hairs	p. 187
Of the shape and dexterity of the savages	p. 192
Of the ornaments of the body	p. 201
Of the outward ornaments	p. 206
Of marriage	p. 215
Of the savages' Tabagie, or banquet	p. 221
Of dances and songs	p. 232
Of the disposition of the body	p. 238
The men's exercises	p. 244
The women's exercises	p. 251
Of civility	p. 255
Of the virtues and vices of the savages	p. 260
Of hunting	p. 267
Of hawking	p. 277
Of fishing	p. 281
Of the land	p. 292
Of the war	p. 307
Of funerals	p. 317
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