"we spent this winter very joyfully, and had good food, by means of the order of good weather that i established there, which everyone found useful for health, and more profitable than all sorts of medicines that could have been used. This order was a chain that we put with a few small ceremonies on the neck of one of our people, giving him the charge for that day of going hunting: the next day it was given to another, and so on consecutively: all of them strove to see who would do the best and bring back the best hunt: we did not find ourselves bad, nor the savages who were with us. " from the voyages [. . . ] of champlain, 1613. Object Type: painting. Date: 1925. Medium: watercolor paint. Depicted People: Samuel de Champlain. L'Ordre de Bon Temps, 1606
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