Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 2 Samuel de Champlain Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 2 Table of Contents Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 2...............................................................................................................1 Samuel de Champlain....................................................................................................................................1 PREFACE......................................................................................................................................................4 TO THE KING...............................................................................................................................................5 TO THE QUEEN REGENT, MOTHER OF THE KING.............................................................................5 EXTRACT FROM THE LICENSE...............................................................................................................6 CHAPTER I. THE BENEFITS OF COMMERCE HAVE INDUCED SEVERAL PRINCES TO SEEK AN EASIER ROUTE FOR TRAFFIC WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST.SEVERAL UNSUCCESSFUL VOYAGES.DETERMINATION OF THE FRENCH FOR THIS PURPOSE.UNDERTAKING OF SIEUR DE MONTS: HIS COMMISSION AND ITS REVOCATION.NEW COMMISSION TO SIEUR DE MONTS TO ENABLE HIM TO CONTINUE HIS UNDERTAKING.............................................................................................................6 ENDNOTES:.................................................................................................................................................7 CHAPTER II. DESCRIPTION OF SABLE ISLAND; CAPE BRETON; LA HEVE; PORT AU MOUTON; PORT CAPE NEGRE; SABLE BAY AND CAPE; CORMORANT ISLAND; CAPE FOURCHU; LONG ISLAND; BAY OF SAINT MARY; PORT SAINT MARGARET; AND OF ALL NOTEWORTHY OBJECTS ALONG THIS COAST.........................................................................9 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................13 CHAPTER III. DESCRIPTION OF PORT ROYAL AND THE PECULIARITIES OF THE SAME.ISLE HAUTE. PORT OF MINES.BAYE FRANCOISE.−THE RIVER ST. JOHN, AND WHAT WE OBSERVED BETWEEN THE PORT OF MINES AND THE SAME.THE ISLAND CALLED BY THE SAVAGES MANTHANE.THE RIVER OF THE ETECHEMINS, AND SEVERAL FINE ISLANDS THERE. ST. CROIX ISLAND, AND OTHER NOTEWORTHY OBJECTS ON THIS COAST.....................................................................................................................19 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................24 CHAPTER IV. SIEUR DE MONTS, FINDING NO OTHER PLACE BETTER ADAPTED FOR A PERMANENT SETTLEMENT THAN THE ISLAND OF ST. CROIX, FORTIFIES IT AND BUILDS DWELLINGS.RETURN OF THE VESSELS TO FRANCE, AND OF RALLEAU, SECRETARY OF SIEUR DE MONTS, FOR THE SAKE OF ARRANGING SOME BUSINESS AFFAIRS....................................................................................................................................................28 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................29 CHAPTER V. OF THE COAST, INHABITANTS, AND RIVER OF NORUMBEGUE, AND OF ALL THAT OCCURRED DURING THE EXPLORATION OF THE LATTER.....................................30 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................33 CHAPTER VI. OF THE MAL DE LA TERRE, A VERY DESPERATE MALADY.HOW THE SAVAGES, MEN AND WOMEN, SPEND THEIR TIME IN WINTER.AND ALL THAT OCCURRED AT THE SETTLEMENT WHILE WE WERE PASSING THE WINTER.........................36 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................38 CHAPTER VII. DISCOVERY OF THE COAST OF THE ALMOUCHIQUOIS AS FAR AS THE FORTY−SECOND DEGREE OF LATITUDE, AND DETAILS OF THIS VOYAGE...........................38 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................44 CHAPTER VIII. CONTINUATION OF THE DISCOVERIES ALONG THE COAST OF THE ALMOUCHIQUOIS, AND WHAT WE OBSERVED IN DETAIL.........................................................53 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................57 CHAPTER IX. RETURN FROM THE DISCOVERIES ALONG THE COAST OF THE ALMOUCHIQUOIS...................................................................................................................................60 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................61 CHAPTER X. THE DWELLING−PLACE ON THE ISLAND OF ST. CROIX TRANSFERRED TO i Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 2 Table of Contents Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 2 PORT ROYAL, AND THE REASON WHY.............................................................................................63 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................64 CHAPTER XI. WHAT TOOK PLACE AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF SIEUR DE MONTS, UNTIL, NO TIDINGS OF WHAT HE HAD PROMISED BEING RECEIVED, WE DEPARTED FROM PORT ROYAL TO RETURN TO FRANCE.................................................................................64 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................67 CHAPTER XII. DEPARTURE FROM PORT ROYAL TO RETURN TO FRANCE.MEETING RALLEAU AT CAPE SABLE, WHICH CAUSED US TO TURN BACK..............................................67 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................69 CHAPTER XIII. SIEUR DE POUTRINCOURT SETS OUT FROM PORT ROYAL TO MAKE DISCOVERIES.ALL THAT WAS SEEN, AND WHAT TOOK PLACE AS FAR AS MALLEBARRE..........................................................................................................................................70 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................73 CHAPTER XIV. CONTINUATION OF THE ABOVE DISCOVERIES, AND WHAT WAS OBSERVED OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE....................................................................................76 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................80 CHAPTER XV. THE INCLEMENCY OF THE WEATHER NOT PERMITTING US AT THAT TIME TO CONTINUE OUR DISCOVERIES, WE RESOLVED TO RETURN TO OUR SETTLEMENT. WHAT HAPPENED TO US UNTIL WE REACHED IT..............................................84 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................87 CHAPTER XVI. RETURN FROM THE FOREGOING DISCOVERIES, AND WHAT TRANSPIRED DURING THE WINTER..................................................................................................89 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................92 CHAPTER XVII. THE SETTLEMENT ABANDONED.RETURN TO FRANCE OF SIEUR DE POUTRINCOURT AND ALL HIS COMPANY.......................................................................................96 ENDNOTES:...............................................................................................................................................97 THE VOYAGES TO THE GREAT RIVER ST. LAWRENCE, MADE BY SIEUR DE CHAMPLAIN, CAPTAIN IN ORDINARY TO THE KING IN THE MARINE, FROM THE YEAR 1608 TO THAT OF 1612........................................................................................................................................................................100 CHAPTER I. DETERMINATION OF SIEUR DE MONTS TO MAKE EXPLORATIONS IN THE INTERIOR; HIS COMMISSION, AND ITS INFRINGEMENT BY THE BASQUES, WHO DISARMED THE VESSEL OF PONT GRAVE; AND THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THEM WHICH THEY SUBSEQUENTLY MADE............................................................................................100 ENDNOTES:.............................................................................................................................................103 CHAPTER II. OF THE RIVER SAGUENAY, AND THE SAVAGES WHO VISITED US THERE.OF THE ISLAND OF ORLEANS, AND ALL THAT WE OBSERVED THERE WORTHY OF NOTE...............................................................................................................................104 ENDNOTES:.............................................................................................................................................106 CHAPTER III. ARRIVAL AT QUEBEC, WHERE WE CONSTRUCTED OUR PLACE OF ABODE; ITS SITUATION. CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE SERVICE OF THE KING AND MY LIFE. BY SOME OF OUR MENPUNISHMENT OF THEM, AND ALL THAT TRANSPIRED OF THE AFFAIR............................................................................................................108