Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, vol 3

Voyages of Samuel de Champlain,
vol 3

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CHAMPLAIN'S VOYAGES.
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. III.
1611-1618
HELIOTYPE COPIES OF TEN MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
Editor:
THE REV. EDMUND F. SLAFTER, A.M.

PREFACE
The present volume completes the work proposed by the Prince Society
of a translation into English of the VOYAGES OF CHAMPLAIN. It
includes the journals issued in 1604, 1613, and 1619, and covers fifteen
years of his residence and explorations in New France.
At a later period, in 1632, Champlain published, in a single volume, an
abridgment of the issues above mentioned, containing likewise a
continuation of his journal down to 1631. This continuation covers
thirteen additional years. But it is to be observed that the events
recorded in the journal of these later years are immediately connected
with the progress and local interests of the French colony at Quebec.
This last work of the great explorer is of primary importance and value

as constituting original material for the early history of Canada, and a
translation of it into English would doubtless be highly appreciated by
the local historian. A complete narrative of these events, however,
together with a large amount amount of interesting matter relating to
the career of Champlain derived from other sources, is given in the
Memoir contained in the first volume of this work.
This English translation contains not only the complete narratives of all
the personal explorations made by Champlain into the then unbroken
forests of America, but the whole of his minute, ample, and invaluable
descriptions of the character and habits, mental, moral, and physical of
the various savage tribes with which he came in contact. It will furnish,
therefore, to the student of history and the student of ethnology most
valuable information, unsurpassed in richness and extent, and which
cannot be obtained from any other source. To aid one or both of these
two classes in their investigations, the work was undertaken and has
now been completed.
E. F. S.
BOSTON, 91 BOYLSTON STREET, April 5, 1882.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PREFACE VOYAGE OF CHAMPLAIN IN 1611 DEDICATION TO
HENRI DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE CONDÉ VOYAGE MADE IN
1613 DEDICATION TO THE KING CHAMPLAIN'S PREFACE
EXTRACT FROM THE LICENSE OF THE KING VOYAGE MADE
IN 1615 VOYAGE MADE IN 1618 EXPLANATION OF TWO
GEOGRAPHICAL MAPS OF NEW FRANCE
ILLUSTRATIONS.
LE GRAND SAULT ST. LOUIS DRESS OF THE SAVAGES FORT
OF THE IROQUOIS DEER TRAP DRESS OF THE SAVAGES
CHAMPLAIN'S LARGE MAP OF NEW FRANCE, 1612
CHAMPLAIN'S SMALL MAP OF NEW FRANCE, 1613
INDEX

THE VOYAGES
OF SIEUR DE CHAMPLAIN,
Of Saintonge, Captain in ordinary to the King in the Marine;

OR,
_A MOST FAITHFUL JOURNAL OF OBSERVATIONS made in the,
exploration of New France, describing not only the countries, coasts,
rivers, ports, and harbors, with their latitudes, and the various
deflections of the Magnetic Needle, but likewise the religious belief of
the inhabitants, their superstitions, mode of life and warfare; furnished
with numerous illustrations_.
Together with two geographical maps: the first for the purposes of
navigation, adapted to the compass as used by mariners, which, deflects
to the north-east; the other in its true meridian, with longitudes and
latitudes, to which is added the