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Hindustan (Uttar Pradesh, India) (search for this): chapter 2
e vastness of their transactions was measured, not by tonnage, but by counting caravans and camels. But now, for the wilderness commerce substituted the sea; for camels, merchantmen; for caravans, fleets and convoys. The ancients were restricted in the objects of commerce; for how could rice be brought across continents from the Ganges, or sugar from Bengal? But now commerce gathered every production from the East and the West; tea, sugar, and coffee, from the plantations of China and Hindostan; masts from American forests; furs from Hudson's Bay; men from Africa. With the expansion of commerce, the forms of business were changing. Of old, no dealers in credit existed between the merchant and the producer. The Chap. XX.} Greeks and Romans were hard-money men; their language has no word for bank notes or currency; with them there was no stock market, no brokers' board, no negotiable scrip of kingdom or commonwealth. Public expenses were borne by direct taxes, or by loans f
De Soto, Jefferson County, Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
that, in the 1673. land of the Chickasas, the Indians have guns. Near the latitude of 33 degrees, on the western bank of the Mississippi, stood the village of Mitchigamea, in a region that had not been visited by Europeans since the days of De Soto. Now, thought Marquette, we must, indeed, ask the aid of the Virgin. Armed with bows and arrows, with clubs, axes, and bucklers, amidst continual whoops, the natives, bent on war, embark in vast canoes made out of the trunks of hollow trees; b the brilliant career of discov- Hennepin, Nouveau Voyage 2. eries opened in the west. In the solitudes of Upper Canada, the secluded adventurer had inflamed his imagination by reading the voyages of Columbus, and the history of the rambles of De Soto; and the Iroquois had, moreover, described the course of the Ohio. Thus the young enthusiast framed plans of colonization in the south-west, and of commerce between Europe and the Mississippi. Once more he repaired to France; and from the poli
Big River (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
rairies, with wild rice for food, and skins of beasts, instead of bark, for roofs to their cabins, on the banks of the Great River, of which Allouez reported Ibid 111 the name to be Messipi. After residing for nearly two years chiefly on the souistant nations, said they, never spare the strangers; their mutual wars fill their borders with bands of warriors; the Great River abounds in monsters, which devour both men and canoes; the excessive heats occasion death.—I shall gladly lay down my alling silence, but the ripple of their canoe, and the lowing of the buffalo. in seven days, they entered happily the Great River, with a joy that could not be expressed; and the two birch-bark canoes, raising their happy sails under new skies and son, he obtained, with the monopoly of the traffic in buffalo skins, a commission for perfecting the discovery of the Great River. With Tonti, an Italian veteran, as 1678 his lieutenant, and a recruit of mechanics and mariners; with anchors, and
Wisconsin (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ing the calumet, and accompanied by Du Gay and Michael d'accault, as oarsmen, followed the Illinois to its junction with the Mississippi; and, invoking the guidance of St. Anthony of Padua, ascended the mighty stream far beyond the mouth of the Wisconsin—as he falsely held forth, far enough to discover its source. The great falls in the river, which he describes with reasonable accuracy, were named from the chosen patron of the expedition. On a tree near the cataract, the Franciscan engraved the cross, and the arms of France; and, after a summer's rambles, diversified by a short captivity among the Sioux, he and his company- Chap. XX.} ions returned, by way of the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, to the French mission at Green Bay. 1680 In Illinois, Tonti was less fortunate. The quick perception of La Salle had selected, as the fit centre of his colony, Rock Fort, near a village of the Illinois Joutel, 337-340. —a cliff rising two hundred feet above the river that School-craft, 32
Green Bay (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
1639. p. 23, 24. Huron, in Michigan, and at Green Bay; thus to gain access to the immense regionsof Algonquins from the west, especially from Green Bay. In the autumn of 1640, Charles Raymbault. dant there, the traders pressed forward to Green Bay. Two of them dared to pass the winter of 165ll to Rene Mesnard. He was charged to visit Green Bay and Lake Superior, land, on a convenient inl France in the vast regions that extend from Green Bay to the head of Lake Superior,—mingling happie messenger neglect the south: obtaining, at Green Bay, an escort of Potawatomies, he, the first ofefore the end of September, all were safe in Green Bay. Joliet returned to Quebec to announce thuse at Mackinaw, he cast anchor Aug. 27. in Green Bay. Here having despatched his brig to Niagarasin and Fox Rivers, to the French mission at Green Bay. 1680 In Illinois, Tonti was less fortunaanother year, which was occupied in visiting Green Bay, and conducting traffic there; in finding To[1 more...]
Cochin (Kerala, India) (search for this): chapter 2
system all Western Europe had contributed to build. Even before the discovery of Amer- 1419. ica, Portugal had reached Madeira and the Azores, the 1448. Cape Verd Islands and Congo; within six years after 1449. the discovery of Hayti, the intrepid Vasco de Gama, 1484. following where no European, where none but Africans from Carthage, had preceded, turned the Cape of Good Hope, and arrived at Mozambique; and, passing the Arabian peninsula, landed at Calicut, and made an establishment at Cochin. Within a few short years, the brilliant temerity of Portugal achieved establishments on Western and Eastern Africa, in Arabia and Persia, in Hindostan and the Eastern isles, and in Brazil. The intense application of the system of monopoly, combined with the despotism of the sovereign and the priesthood, precipitated the decay of Portuguese commerce in advance of the decay of the mercantile system; and the Moors, the Persians, Holland, and Spain, dismantled Portugal Chap. XX.} of her p
Fox (Canada) (search for this): chapter 2
bounds in monsters, which devour both men and canoes; the excessive heats occasion death.—I shall gladly lay down my life for the salvation of souls, replied the good father; and the docile nation joined him in prayer. At the last village on Fox River ever visited by the 1673. June 9. French,—where Kickapoos, Mascoutins, and Miamis dwelt together on a beautiful hill in the centre of prairies and magnificent groves, that extended as far as the eye could reach, and where Allouez had already r single-hearted, unpretending, illustrious Marquette, with Joliet for his associate, five Frenchmen as his companions, and two Algonquins as guides, lifting their two canoes on their backs, and walking across the narrow portage that divides the Fox River from the Wisconsin. They reach the water-shed;— uttering a special prayer to the immaculate Virgin, they leave the streams that, flowing onwards, could have borne their greetings to the castle of Quebec;— already they stand by the Wisconsin.
China (China) (search for this): chapter 2
ents from the Ganges, or sugar from Bengal? But now commerce gathered every production from the East and the West; tea, sugar, and coffee, from the plantations of China and Hindostan; masts from American forests; furs from Hudson's Bay; men from Africa. With the expansion of commerce, the forms of business were changing. Of olry toil, made their way to the ends of the earth; they raised the emblem of man's salvation on the Moluccas, in Japan, in India, in Thibet, in Cochin China, and in China; they penetrated Ethiopia, and reached the Abyssinians; they Chap. XX.} planted missions among the Caffres: in California, on the banks of the Marañhon, in the pdenying man, who had glowed with the hope of bearing the gospel across the continent, through all the American Barbary, even to the ocean that divides America from China, ceased to live; and the body of this first apostle of Christianity to the tribes of Michigan was buried in the particular sepulchre, Relation 1642, 1643, p. 27.
Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
England neighbors,—over far the largest part of our country Louis XIV. claimed to be the sovereign; and the prelude to the overthrow of the European colonial system, which was sure to be also the overthrow of the mercantile system, was destined to be the mighty struggle for the central regions of our republic. The first permanent efforts of French enterprise, in colonizing America, preceded any permanent English settlement north of the Potomac. Years before the Pilgrims anchored within Cape Cod, the Roman church had been planted, by missionaries from France, in the eastern moiety of Maine; and Le Caron, an unambi- 1615, 1616. tious Franciscan, the companion of Champlain, had penetrated the land of the Mohawks, had passed to the north into the hunting-grounds of the Wyandots, and, bound by his vows to the life of a beggar, had, on foot, or paddling a bark canoe, gone onward and still on- Sagard, Hist. du Canada. ward, taking alms of the savages, till he reached the rivers of Lak
La Salle, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
began to fortify the outlet of Lake Ontario, La Salle, repairing to France, and aided by 1675. Froith such address Chap. XX.} as the pupils of La Salle. Fortune was within his grasp. But Joliet, s, or were injured by his special privileges, La Salle, first of mariners, sailed over Lake Erie anders to its mouth. The spirit and prudence of La Salle, who was the life of the enterprise, won the ada, related at the time. When, therefore, La Salle returned to Illinois, with large supplies of e voyage begins anew amidst variances between La Salle and the naval commander. In every instance othe careless pilot. Others gazed listlessly; La Salle, calming the terrible energy of his grief at ce but in the constancy and elastic genius of La Salle. Ascending the small stream at the west oft productiveness of 1685. Dec. the country. La Salle proposed to seek the Mississippi in canoes; a skulked in the prairie grass; of the latter, La Salle asked, Where is my nephew? At the moment of [28 more...]
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