Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, vol 1

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Transcriber's Notes:
The footnotes in the main portion of the original text, which are lengthy
and numerous, have been converted to endnotes that appear at the end
of each chapter. Their numeration is the same as in the original.
The original spelling remains unaltered, with the following exceptions:
1. This text was originally printed with tall-s. They have been replaced
here with ordinary 's.'
2. Some quotations from the 17th-century French reproduce manuscript
abbreviation marks (macrons over vowels). These represent 'n' or 'm'
and have been expanded.
3. In the transcription of some words of the Algonquian languages, the
original text of this edition uses a character that resembles an infinity
sign. This is taken from the old system that the Jesuits used to record
these languages, and represents a long, nasalized, unrounded 'o'. It is
here represented with an '8'.

CHAMPLAIN'S VOYAGES.
[Illustration: Champlain (Samuel De) d'apres un portrait grave par
Moncornet]
VOYAGES OF SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
By CHARLES POMEROY OTIS, Ph.D.
WITH HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS, and a MEMOIR
By the REV. EDMUND F. SLAFTER, A.M.
VOL. I. 1567-1635
FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS.
Editor: The REV EDMUND F SLAFTER, A.M.

PREFACE
The labors and achievements of the navigators and explorers, who
visited our coasts between the last years of the fifteenth and the early
years of the seventeenth centuries, were naturally enough not fully
appreciated by their contemporaries, nor were their relations to the
future growth of European interests and races on this continent
comprehended in the age in which they lived. Numberless events in
which they were actors, and personal characteristics which might have
illustrated and enriched their history, were therefore never placed upon
record. In intimate connection with the career of Cabot, Cartier,
Roberval, Ribaut, Laudonnière, Gosnold, Pring, and Smith, there were
vast domains of personal incident and interesting fact over which the
waves of oblivion have passed forever. Nor has Champlain been more
fortunate than the rest. In studying his life and character, we are
constantly finding ourselves longing to know much where we are
permitted to know but little. His early years, the processes of his
education, his home virtues, his filial affection and duty, his social and
domestic habits and mode of life, we know imperfectly; gathering only
a few rays of light here and there in numerous directions, as we follow
him along his lengthened career. The reader will therefore fail to find
very much that he might well desire to know, and that I should have
been but too happy to embody in this work. In the positive absence of
knowledge, this want could only be supplied from the field of pure
imagination. To draw from this source would have been alien both to
my judgment and to my taste.
But the essential and important events of Champlain's public career are
happily embalmed in imperishable records. To gather these up and
weave them into an impartial and truthful narrative has been the simple
purpose of my present attempt. If I have succeeded in marshalling the

authentic deeds and purposes of his life into a complete whole, giving
to each undertaking and event its true value and importance, so that the
historian may more easily comprehend the fulness of that life which
Champlain consecrated