In marked contrast with the military uniforms of the officers
surrounding the council-table were the black robes and tonsured
heads of two or three ecclesiastics, who had been called in by the
Governor to aid the council with their knowledge and advice. There
were the Abbe Metavet, of the Algonquins of the North; Pere Oubal,
the Jesuit missionary of the Abenaquais of the East, and his
confrere, La Richardie, from the wild tribes of the Far West; but
conspicuous among the able and influential missionaries who were the
real rulers of the Indian nations allied with France was the famous
Sulpicien, Abbe Piquet, "the King's missionary," as he was styled in
royal ordinances, and the apostle to the Iroquois, whom he was
laboring to convert and bring over to the side of France in the
great dispute raised between France and England for supremacy in
North America.
Upon the wall behind the vice-regal chair hung a great map, drawn by
the bold hand of Abbe Piquet, representing the claims as well as
actual possessions of France in America.
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