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Codex canadensis, p. 14
Portrait d'un Illustre / borgne: ce Capitaine eut un oeil crevé d'un coup de fleche / Il a Esté grand guerrier et terreur de / diverses Nations du linage de son pais. / Il hasrangue ses / soldats autravers / d'un tube descorse / de bouleau. / Il les exorte / a lescouter, / leur disant / pissintaouik / Nikanissitik. / escoutes moy mes / freres. Il sapelloit / Iscouakité qui veut / dire le tison allumé. Selon Rémi Savard, anthropologue retraité de l'enseignement, Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal, il pourrait s'agir de Paul Tessouat. Savard a choisi cette ilustration pour la couverture de son livre L'ALGONQUIN TESSOUAT ET LA FONDATION DE MONTRÉAL (1977) .
English:
Portrait of a famous one-eyed man. This captain had one eye put out by an arrow. He was a great warrior and was the terror of many surrounding nations. He is addressing his soldiers through a birch bark tube. He urges them to pay attention to him, saying:
Pissintaouik nikanissitik
, Listen to me, my brothers. He was called Iscouakité, which means “burning firebrand.”
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| Date | circa 1675 -82 |
| Source | http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/codex/026014-1100-f.html |
| Author | Louis Nicolas (1634 - ca. 1682) |
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