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La Salle and the discovery of the great West - North Central ...

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—1678.] JESUIT ASCENDENCY. 109credit, but who are protected by Frontenac ; that inCanada <strong>the</strong> Jesuits think everybody an enemy toreligion who is an enemy to <strong>the</strong>m ; that, though <strong>the</strong>yrefused absolution to all who sold br<strong>and</strong>y to <strong>the</strong>Indians, <strong>the</strong>y sold it <strong>the</strong>mselves, <strong>and</strong> that he, <strong>La</strong><strong>Salle</strong>, had himself detected <strong>the</strong>m in it; 1 that <strong>the</strong>bishop laughs at <strong>the</strong> orders <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> King when <strong>the</strong>ydo not agree with <strong>the</strong> wishes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jesuits ; that <strong>the</strong>Jesuits dismissed one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir servants named Robert,because he told <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir trade in br<strong>and</strong>y; thatAlbanel, 2 in particular, carried on a <strong>great</strong> fur-trade,<strong>and</strong> that <strong>the</strong> Jesuits have built <strong>the</strong>ir college in partfrom <strong>the</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>its <strong>of</strong> this kind <strong>of</strong> traific; that <strong>the</strong>yJe'suites, ou que l'evesque sera gouverneur."la <strong>Salle</strong>.Memoire sur M r 'de1 " lis [les Jesuites] refusent l'absolution a ceux qui ne veulentpas promettre de n'en plus vendre [de Veau-de-vie], et s'ils meurenten cet 6tat, ils les privent de la sepulture ecclesiastique ; au contraireils se permettent a eux-memes sans aucune difficulte ce mesmetrafic quoique toute sorte de trafic soit interdite a tous les ecclesiastiquespar les ordonnances du Roy, et par une bulle expresse duPape. <strong>La</strong> Bulle et les ordonnances sont notoires, et quoyqu'ilscachent le trafic qu'ils font d'eau-de-vie, M. de la <strong>Salle</strong> pre'tend qu'ilne Test pas moins ;qu'outre la notoriete' il en a des preuves certaines,et qu'il les a surpris dans ce trafic, et qu'ils luy ont tendu des piegespour l'y surprendre. ... Ils ont chasse' leur valet Robert a 'causequ'il revela qu'ils en traitaient jour et nuit." — Ibid. The writersays that he makes this last statement, not on <strong>the</strong> authority <strong>of</strong> <strong>La</strong><strong>Salle</strong>, but on that <strong>of</strong> a memoir made at <strong>the</strong> time when <strong>the</strong> intendant,Talon, with whom he elsewhere says that he was well acquainted,returned to France. A <strong>great</strong> number <strong>of</strong> particulars are addedrespecting <strong>the</strong> Jesuit trade in furs.2Albanel was prominent among <strong>the</strong> Jesuit explorers at thistime. He is best known by his journey up <strong>the</strong> Saguenay to Hudson'sBay in 1672.

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