History of America Before Columbus, According to Documents And Approved Authors
History of America Before Columbus, According to Documents And Approved Authors
De Roo, Peter, 1839-1926
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291. Digitized by Google CHBISTIANITY IN NOBTHEASTEBN AMERICA. 279 St. Lawrence River. " On the twenty-fourth day of July," he says, " we ordered a cross thirty feet high. It was made in the presence of the savages, and in their presence we afterwards planted it on the said headland. They gazed much at it, both when it was made and erected. After we had raised it aloft, we went on our knees and, folding our hands together, venerated it before them ; and, looking up and pointing to heaven, we tr...ied to make them understand that through the cross had come our redemption. At all this they were greatly amazed, turning around to one another and then again fixing their eyes on the cross. W^ had hardly returned to our ships when their captain came to us in a canoe, dressed in an old skin of a black bear and accompanied by three of his sons and a brother. Stopping at a somewhat greater distance from our ves- sel than they were used to, he made a long discourse, pointing at the cross and signifying it by crossing two of his fingers.
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