Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTE Champlain's narrative, as Mr. Grant has explained in his Introduction, is not solely one of the fundamental bases for the history of New France, but also, by reason of his explorations of the New England coast and his incursions into the Iroquois country, of high importance for that of the United States. A series, however, which aims primarily to illustrate the latter may properly omit the story of his later years, subsequent to 1618, the interest of which is chiefly Canadian. This volume presents the texts of the Voyages of 1613 and the Voyages et Descouvertures of 1619, as given in the excellent translation by Dr. Charles Pomeroy Otis, in the second and third volumes of the late Dr. Edmund F. Slafter's Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, published in three volumes by the Prince Society. Cordial thanks are due to Dr. Slafter and to the Council of the Prince Society for the permission to use this version. It is proper to say that certain pages, which in the original occur in the Voyages of 1613 between the address to the Queen Mother and the "Privilege," have been omitted. They contain, first, a poem of sixteen stanzas upon Champlain's voyages, addressed to the French nation, and signed " L'Ange Paris" [iensis]; secondly, a poem of seven stanzas, "to Monsieur de Champlain, upon his book and his marine charts," signed Motin; and thirdly, a summary of the chapters, which in the present volume is replaced by the table of contents. Some explanations should be added respecting the maps. Two general maps are mentioned upon the title-page of the Voyages of 1613. One of these, the "Carte geographique de la Novelle franse en son vray meridiein," is reproduced in this volume. Explanations regarding it are given on pages 223 and 224. The