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Exploration of the Americas

A 1722 letter from a French Jesuit Missionary about his experience living among the Abnaki people in eastern Canada.

A 1722 letter from a French Jesuit Missionary about his experience living among the Abnaki people in eastern Canada.

Citation Information: Kip, William Ingraham, excerpt from “The early Jesuit missions in North America,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/add36cdf1f185c62e6a22dc50638ad5d.

Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

Courtesy of University of California via HathiTrust.

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A 1722 letter from a French Jesuit Missionary about his experience living among the Abnaki people in eastern Canada.

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