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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 22 2 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 18 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 12 (search)
eers of France in the New World, from p. 165 onward. Champlain on the war-path. [this narrative is of great interest, as showing the mode of early Indian warfare, and the way in which the French at once modified it by teaching them the use of fire-arms. It also illustrates the way in which the French explored the interior of the country, even before the English had colonized the coasts, thus giving rise to that dispute out of which grew the series of French and Indian wars. Samuel de Champlain first sailed for America in 1603, and was the founder and governor of Quebec.] Left the rapid Now Chambly, Canada East. of the said River of the Iroquois on the 2d of July (1609). All the savages A tribe of Algonquins. began carrying their canoes, arms, and traps over land, about a league and a half, to avoid the current and force of the rapid. This was quickly effected. They immediately launched the canoes into the water, two men in each with their baggage, whilst one of