Acknowledgments Bibliographical Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction Preliminary Essay on the Origin of the Americans Letter 1 Letter 2: Voyage from La Rochelle to Quebec: some remarks on that journey, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, and the Saint Lawrence River. Letter 3: Description of Quebec, the character of its inhabitants, and the way of life in the French colony. Letter 4: The Huron village of Lorette. What hindered the progress of the French colony of Canada. The currencies in circulation there. Letter 5: Canada''s beavers. Their differences with the bièvres or beavers of Europe. Their way of building.

The advantage that they can procure for the colony. The hunt for beavers and muskrats. Letter 6: Journey from Quebec to Trois-Rivières. How to run on the snow. The seigneuries of New France. Description of Bécancour. Tradition with respect to the name of the Stinking River. Description of Trois-Rivières.

Continuation on the Sauvages'' hunts. Letter 7: Description of the land and of the Sorel Islands and of Saint-François-du-Lac. The Abenaki village. The former Fort Richelieu and those that were built in each parish. The fine actions of two Canadian ladies. The Sauvages'' other hunts. Letter 8: Description of the land between Lake Saint Pierre and Montreal and how it differs from that of Quebec. Description of the island and town of Montreal and the surrounding area.

The sea wolf, sea cow, porpoise, and whale fisheries. Letter 9: Fort Chambly. The fish, birds, and some animals specific to Canada. The trees that it has in common with France and those that are unique to it. Letter 10: The causes of Canada''s coldness. The resources for living that are found there. The character of the Canadian Frenchmen. Letter 11: The Iroquois village of Sault Saint Louis.

The various peoples inhabiting Canada. Letter 12: Voyage to Cataraqui. Description of the land and of the rapids in the Saint Lawrence River. Description and situation of the fort. The character of Canada''s languages and of the peoples who speak them. Origin of the war between the Iroquois and Algonquin. Letter 13: Description of the land up to the Oswego River. The ebb and flow of Canada''s great lakes.

The manner in which the Sauvages sing the war song. The god of war among these peoples. The declaration of war. The wampum necklaces and the calumet, and their uses for peace and war. Letter 14: Description of the country from Anse de la Famine to the Sands River. The Sauvages'' motives for war. Departure of the warriors and everything that precedes it. Their farewells.

Their offensive and defensive arms. The care that they take to carry their guardian gods with them. Particularities of the country as far as Niagara. Letter 15: What happens between the Senecas and the English on the occasion of our settlement at Niagara. Description of the land. The fire dance and the history of this occasion. Description of Niagara Falls. Letter 16: Initial reception of the prisoners.

Triumph of the warriors. Distribution that is made of the captives: how their fate is decided and what happens next. The inhumanity with which those who are destined to die are treated. The courage that they show. The Sauvages'' negotiations. Letter 17: Description of Lake Erie. Journey to Detroit. Plans for a settlement in that place.

What made it fail. Council called by the commander of Fort Pontchartrain, and its subject. The Sauvages'' games. Letter 18: Some traits of the Sauvages'' character, customs, and government. Letter 19: Voyage from Detroit to Michilimackinac. Description of the land. The Sauvages'' marriages. Letter 20: Voyage to the Bay.

Description of it and of the route to it. Violent incursion of the Spanish into the land of the Missouris and their defeat. The Sauvages'' dances. Letter 21: Departure from Michilimackinac. Observations on the currents in the lakes. Portrait of Canada''s Sauvages. Their good and bad qualities. Letter 22: Journey to the Saint Joseph River.

Observation about the rivers that run into Lake Michigan from the east. That of Father Marquette, and the origin of this name. The Sauvages'' games. Some character traits of these peoples. Letter 23: Continuation of the Sauvages'' character and their way of life. Letter 24: The traditions and religion of Canada''s Sauvages. Letter 25: Continuation of the Sauvages'' traditions. Letter 26: Departure from the Saint Joseph River fort.

Sources of the Kankakee. What happens upon the Sauvages'' deaths, their funerals, and graves, mourning, and widowhood. The feast of the dead. Letter 27: Journey to Pimiteoui. The Illinois River. The reception of prisoners among these peoples. The way in which they burn them. Some particulars of their way of life.

Letter 28: Journey from Pimiteoui to Kaskaskia. The course of the Illinois River. The copper mines. The Missouri. The mines of the Meramec River. Description of Fort de Chartres and of the Kaskaskia mission. The fruit trees of Louisiana. Description of the Mississippi above the Illinois.

Various tribes of that nation. Some traditions of the Sauvages. Their ideas about the stars, eclipses, and thunder. Their way of calculating time. Letter 29: The Illinois colony. Journey to the Arkansas and Description of the land. Letter 30: Journey from the Arkansas to the Natchez. Description of the land, of the Yazoo River.

The traditions, customs, and religion of the Natchez. Letter 31: Journey from the Natchez to New Orleans. Description of the land and of several of the Sauvages'' villages and of the capital of Louisiana. Letter 32: Journey from New Orleans to the mouth of the Mississippi. Description of this river as far as the sea. Reflections on the concessions. Letter 33: Description of Biloxi. The cassina or apalachine plant.

Myrtle wax, Mobile, the Choctaws, Saint Bernard Bay. Journey from Biloxi to New Orleans by Lake Pontchartrain. Letter 34: Journey to the Florida Straits. Shipwreck of the Adour. Return to Louisiana along the coast of Florida. Description of that coast. Letter 35: Voyage from Biloxi to Saint-Domingue''s Cap-Haïtien. Letter 36: Description of Saint-Domingue''s Cap-Haïtien.

Return to France, and rest in England. Bibliography Index.