. Juvenile Instructor . e food, he cried in tears, A little bit will do ;And when the summer comes againIll pay it back to you! The ants just shook their heads and said, Well loan no food to you;You sang all through the summer time Now sing in winter too! Notes on Our History D. W. Parratt, B. S., Secretary of Utah State Historical Society XXXVII RADISSON WITH THE MOHAWKS The early Spanish explorer of Amer-ica was at his best when astride somespirited horse. With it he penetratedour vast arid regions and explored thebarren wastes stretching to the southand southwest. Without this nobleanimal t
. Juvenile Instructor . e food, he cried in tears, A little bit will do ;And when the summer comes againIll pay it back to you! The ants just shook their heads and said, Well loan no food to you;You sang all through the summer time Now sing in winter too! Notes on Our History D. W. Parratt, B. S., Secretary of Utah State Historical Society XXXVII RADISSON WITH THE MOHAWKS The early Spanish explorer of Amer-ica was at his best when astride somespirited horse. With it he penetratedour vast arid regions and explored thebarren wastes stretching to the southand southwest. Without this nobleanimal the greater part of westernhistory would have been, in all prob- ability, far from that now outlined inmodern texts. In the northeast, however, condi-tions were strikingly different. Thewooded regions explored by Cham-plain, Brule, Nicolet, and other ad-venturous Frenchmen are compara-tively humid and were at one timegouged by massive ice sheets slowlypressing from the north. The gougeddepressions were filled with water,. MAKING FOR A PORTAGELn such a country the boat is better than the horse. 152 THE JUJENILR INSTRUCTOR Match ii^ij thus forming numerous glacier lakesof varied sizes throughout the many lakes, together withabundant streams, presented seriousobstacles to travel with horses, but atthe same time proved decidedly ad-vantageous for transportation by consequence, the light Indian canoewas readily adopted by the French andbecame to them very much what theEuropean horse was to the Spaniard. Historic St. Lawrence River wasthe open gateway leading from the At-lantic to these western lake-dotted andstream-netted wildernesses. We havealready briefly followed two or threedaring .explorers up- this famousstream and into remote regions of thewest. One of these, Brule, we tracedto the far western extremity of LakeSuperior, and another, Nicolet, downLake Michigan, across Green Bay. andinland to within two days of themighty Mississippi. It will now be ourplea
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