SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN
AND
HIS ASSOCIATES;

WITH A
VIEW OF EARLIER FRENCH ADVENTURE IN AMERICA,
AND THE
LEGENDS OF THE NORTHERN COASTS.







SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN.

CHAPTER I.

1488-1543.

EARLY FRENCH ADVENTURE IN NORTH AMERICA.


When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France
on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized.
While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot
with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a
less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and