"There are," says Father Brebeuf in his account of what was worthy
of note among the Hurons in 1636, Footnote: Relations des Jesuites,
Quebec, 1858, p. 113.] "three kinds of games particularly in vogue
with this people; cross, platter, and straw. The first two are,
they say, supreme for the health. Does not that excite our pity?
Lo, a poor sick person, whose body is hot with fever, whose soul
foresees the end of his days, and a miserable sorcerer orders for
him as the only cooling remedy, a game of cross. Sometimes it is
the invalid himself who may perhaps have dreamed that he will die
unless the country engages in a game of cross for his health. Then,
if he has ever so little credit, you will see those who can best
play at cross arrayed, village against village, in a beautiful
field, and to increase the excitement, they will wager with each
other their beaver skins and their necklaces of porcelain beads."
"Sometimes also one of their medicine men will say that the whole
country is ill and that a game of cross is needed for its cure. It
is not necessary to say more. The news incontinently spreads
everywhere. The chiefs in each village give orders that all the
youths shall do their duty in this respect, otherwise some great
calamity will overtake the country."
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