Maillard, Antoine Simon, 1710-1762 / 2008-05-13 00:00:00
EBOOK MICMAKIS AND MARICHEETS ***
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AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
CUSTOMS and MANNERS
OF THE
MICMAKIS and MARICHEETS
SAVAGE NATIONS,
Now Dependent on the
Government of CAPE-BRETON.
FROM
An Original French Manuscript-Letter,
Never Published,
Written by a French Abbot,
Who resided many Years, in quality of Missionary, amongst them.
To which are annexed,
Several Pieces, relative to the Savages, to Nova
Scotia, and to North-America in general.
* * * * *
LONDON:
Printed for S. Hooper and A. Morley at Gay's-Head,
near Beaufort-Buildings in the Strand. MDCCLVIII.
PREFACE.
For the better understanding of the letter immediately following, it may
not be unnecessary to give the reader some previous idea of the people
who are the subject of it, as well of the letter-writer.
The best account of the _Mickmakis_ I could find, and certainly the most
authentic, is in a memorial furnished by the French ministry in April,
1751, from which the following paragraph is a translated extract:
"The government of the savages dependent on Cape-Breton exacts a
particular attention.
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