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CHAMPLAIN'S VOYAGES.

VOYAGESOFSAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCHBY 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 atranslation into English of the VOYAGES OF CHAMPLAIN. It includes thejournals issued in 1604, 1613, and 1619, and covers fifteen years of hisresidence and explorations in New France.

At a later period, in 1632, Champlain published, in a single volume, anabridgment of the issues above mentioned, containing likewise acontinuation of his journal down to 1631. This continuation covers thirteenadditional years. But it is to be observed that the events recorded in thejournal of these later years are immediately connected with the progressand local interests of the French colony at Quebec. This last work of thegreat explorer is of primary importance and value as constituting originalmaterial for the early history of Canada, and a translation of it intoEnglish would doubtless be highly appreciated by the local historian. Acomplete narrative of these events, however, together with a large amountamount of interesting matter relating to the career of Champlain derivedfrom other sources, is given in the Memoir contained in the first volume ofthis work.

This English translation contains not only the complete narratives of allthe personal explorations made by Champlain into the then unbroken forestsof America, but the whole of his minute, ample, and invaluable descriptionsof the character and habits, mental, moral, and physical of the varioussavage tribes with which he came in contact. It will furnish, therefore, tothe student of history and the student of ethnology most valuableinformation, unsurpassed in richness and extent, and which cannot beobtained from any other source. To aid one or both of these two classes intheir investigations, the work was undertaken and has now been completed.

E. F. S.

BOSTON, 91 BOYLSTON STREET,
April 5, 1882.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PREFACEVOYAGE OF CHAMPLAIN IN 1611DEDICATION TO HENRI DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE CONDÉVOYAGE MADE IN 1613DEDICATION TO THE KINGCHAMPLAIN'S PREFACEEXTRACT FROM THE LICENSE OF THE KINGVOYAGE MADE IN 1615VOYAGE MADE IN 1618EXPLANATION OF TWO GEOGRAPHICAL MAPS OF NEW FRANCE

ILLUSTRATIONS.

LE GRAND SAULT ST. LOUISDRESS OF THE SAVAGESFORT OF THE IROQUOISDEER TRAPDRESS OF THE SAVAGESCHAMPLAIN'S LARGE MAP OF NEW FRANCE, 1612CHAMPLAIN'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 NewFrance, describing not only the countries, coasts, rivers, ports, andharbors, with their latitude