tabagie

They found him in a big bark lodge sixty or seventy paces long, holding a tabagie, a tobacco-feast for “eighty or one hundred companions.”

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Some “conversation” ensued, but no meeting and no tabagie—a common pattern on voyages commanded by the sieur de Mons.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Their differences with Champlain did not emerge at the tabagie.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

They began the long ritual of a tabagie, and started to smoke together, “as they usually do before beginning their speeches.”

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Tessoüat welcomed Champlain with still another tabagie on Morrison Island.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

After this tabagie, Nibachis led Champlain across Muskrat Lake, and then by easy beaten trails to a much larger body of water that today is called Allumette Lake.61

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

They had first met in the tabagie at Tadoussac in 1603, and Champlain wrote that Tessoüat was “astonished to see me, telling us that he thought I was a ghost and that he could not believe his eyes.”

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

At the Rivière-des-Prairies Champlain convened a tabagie: “We summoned them all to an assembly,” he wrote, “in order to explain our intentions.”

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Probably the special account was a detailed report on the tabagie at Tadoussac, and prospects for settlement in the St. Lawrence Valley.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

As time passed, the importance of the tabagie at Tadoussac steadily increased.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008