Domagaya

Un jour notre Capitaine voyant la maladie si émue, et ses gens si fort épris d'icelle, estant sorti hors du Fort, et soy promenant sur la glace, apperçut venir une bande de gens de Stadaconé, en laquelle estoit Domagaya, lequel le Capitaine avoit veu depuis dix ou douze jours fort malade de la propre maladie qu'avoient ses gens: car il avoit l'une de ses jambes aussi grosse qu'un enfant de deux ans, et tous les nerfs d'icelle retirez, les dents perdues et gâtées, et les gencives pourries et infectes.

One day our captain saw the sickness spreading so and his men so badly stricken by it. He had gone out of the fort and was walking on the ice. He saw a band of people coming from Stadaconé, and among them was Domagaya. Ten or twelve days before, the captain had seen him very sick with the very same sickness his men had. One of his legs was as thick as a two-year-old child, with all its sinews drawn tight. His teeth were lost and ruined, and his gums rotten and foul.

Le Capitaine voyant le dit Domagaya sain et guéri fut fort joyeux, espérant par lui sçavoir comme il s'étoit guéri, à fin de donner aide et secours à ses gens. Et lorsqu'ils furent arrivez près le Fort, le Capitaine lui demanda comme il s'estoit guéri de sa maladie : lequel Domagaya repondit, qu'avec le jus des feuilles d'un arbre, et le marc, il s'estoit guéri, et que c'étoit le singulier remède pour cette maladie. Lors le Capitaine demanda s'il y en avoit point là entour, et qu'il lui en montrast pour guérir son Serviteur qui avoit pris la dite maladie en la maison du Seigneur Donnacona : ne lui voulant déclarer le nombre des Compagnons qui estoient malades. Lors le dit Domagaya envoya deux femmes avec notre Capitaine pour en querir, lesquelles en apportèrent neuf ou dix rameaux, et nous montrèrent qu'il falloit piler l'écorce et les feuilles du dit bois, et mettre le tout bouillir en l'ean, puis boire de la dite eau de deux jours l'un, et mettre le marc sur les jambes enflées et malades, et que de toutes maladies le dit arbre guérissoit ; et s'appelle le dit arbre en leur langage Annedda.

When the captain saw Domagaya healthy and cured, he was overjoyed. He hoped to learn from him how he had been cured, so he could bring help and relief to his men. When they reached the fort, the captain asked him how he had cured his sickness. Domagaya answered that he had cured himself with the juice and the pulp of the leaves of a tree, and that this was the one remedy for this sickness. Then the captain asked if there was any of it nearby. He asked Domagaya to show him some to cure his servant, who had fallen sick in the house of Lord Donnacona. He did not want to tell him how many of his companions were sick. Then Domagaya sent two women with our captain to fetch some. They came back with nine or ten branches. They showed us that we had to grind the bark and leaves of this wood and boil it all in water. Then the sick were to drink the water every other day and put the pulp on their swollen, sick legs. They said this tree cured every sickness. In their language the tree is called Annedda.