Tsiko was the son of Ouanda Koka, one of the best speakers of his tribe, and he had won the esteem and admiration of his people through his talents.  Tsiko had inherited his father’s gifts, and spoke so well that he astonished all who heard him, especially the fathers.

Andehoua was a model of virtue.  He was baptized under the name of Armand Jean, in honour of Cardinal Richelieu.  The governor stood as his godfather.  Andehoua made such good progress in his studies that he became a sort of missionary, and he did everything in his power to convert his countrymen.  He died at the Hotel Dieu, Quebec, in 1654, at the early age of thirty-six.

From the year 1639 the number of seminarists began to decrease, until there was only one.  However, in the year 1643 four young Hurons went down to Quebec to receive instruction, and were baptized.  Their godfathers were LeSueur de St. Sauveur, a priest, Martial Piraube, M. de Repentigny and M. de la Vallee.  In the Relations of the Jesuits the names of three are preserved:  Ateiachias, Atarohiat, and Atokouchioueani.

The seminary was then finally closed.  The Jesuits opened another at Three Rivers, and at the commencement there were six pupils, but at the end of a year there were none.  After eight years’ experience, the Jesuits realized that it was impossible successfully to make an Indian boy adopt the manners and habits of the French, and the same result was afterwards found by others who tried the experiment.

In the year 1635, the Jesuits’ missions in New France included those at Cape Breton, Richibucto and Miscou Island.  The mission of Miscou was the best organized and the most populous; the Catholics of Gaspe, Miramichi and Nipisiguit (Bathurst) went there.  The island of Miscou is situated at the northern extremity of the coast of New Brunswick, near the entrance of the Baie des Chaleurs.  It was the common residence of the Jesuits and of the two first who came here, Father Charles Turgis and Father Charles du Marche.  On their arrival they found twenty-three Frenchmen there, who were endeavouring to form a settlement.  Unfortunately, most of them were taken ill with scurvy, from which they died, including the captain, the surgeon, a clerk and nine or ten officers.  Father du Marche was forced to leave the island, and finally Father Turgis succumbed to the disease, and left behind him a single man, who was in a dying condition.

In the year 1637, two other Jesuits came to this inhospitable island, Father Jacques de la Place and Father Nicholas Gondoin.  They found only nine persons there, who were in charge of the storehouse.  A year later, Father Claude Quentin, superior of the Canadian missions, came to assist his confrere, who had undertaken to erect a chapel, but after three years of constant labour, they both returned to Quebec in an exhausted condition.

Father Dollebeau and Father Andre Richard then took charge of the mission on the island of Miscou, but the former was taken ill and was obliged to return to France.  During the voyage the vessel was captured by three English frigates, and while pillaging the ship a soldier set fire to the powder magazine, and as a result Father Dollebeau and the whole crew perished.