McKenzie, James. Some Account of the King's Posts, the Labrador Coast, and the Island of Anticosti by an Indian Trader Residing there Several Years with a Description of the Natives and the Journal of a trip through those Countries in 1808 by the Same Person. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0017
A Description of the Indians known by the name of Montagners
The Montagners or Shore Indians are about four hundred in number. They are christians and a Priest passes amongst them once every summer in order to christen marry confess &c. for which services the Lessees allow him a salary of 50 Guineas and his travelling Expences[.] But they have as yet benefited very little by his precepts or Example for in them we find concentrated all the vices of the Canadians and Nascapees without one of their virtuous qualities[.] Indolence ingratitude malice baseness stubbornness Cowardice and a propensity to drinking stealing lying & lechery[.] In a word let us view them on what side or which medium we please we shall find them neither one thing nor the other neither Nascapees nor Canadians but like the Mule between the Horse and less a spurious Breed between both and a melancholy Instance of the
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