. The Founder of New France; a chronicle of Champlain . Lake Ontario and the vil-lages of the Hurons north of Lake all, the expeditions of 1609, 1613,and 1615 are the central episodes of hiswork as an explorer, each marked by a dis-tinct motive and abounding with 1609 he discovered Lake Champlain andfought his first battle with the Iroquois. In1613 he was decoyed by a lying guide into afruitless search for the North-West Passage bythe route of the Ottawa. In 1615 he dis-covered Lake Huron, traversed what is nowCentral Ontario, and attacked the Iroquois inthe heart of
. The Founder of New France; a chronicle of Champlain . Lake Ontario and the vil-lages of the Hurons north of Lake all, the expeditions of 1609, 1613,and 1615 are the central episodes of hiswork as an explorer, each marked by a dis-tinct motive and abounding with 1609 he discovered Lake Champlain andfought his first battle with the Iroquois. In1613 he was decoyed by a lying guide into afruitless search for the North-West Passage bythe route of the Ottawa. In 1615 he dis-covered Lake Huron, traversed what is nowCentral Ontario, and attacked the Iroquois inthe heart of their own country. These threejourneys make the sum of Champlains achieve-ments as a pioneer of the interior. For allthree, likewise, we have his own story, uponwhich all other versions are based and fromwhich they draw their most striking details. The discovery of Lake Champlain had itsroot in Champlains promise to the Algonquins 1 An Algonquin tribe dwelling to the north of the St Lawrence,for the most part between the Saguenay and the St ^o ^ p CHAMPLAIN IN THE WILDERNESS 87 that he would aid them in their strife with theIroquois. In turn this promise was basedupon the policy of conciliating those savagetribes from whom the French derived theirsupply of furs, and with whom throughout theSt Lawrence basin they most constantly camein contact. It was the year which followed the found-ing of Quebec. Of the twenty-eight whoentered upon the first winter eight only hadsurvived, and half of these were ailing. OnJune 5 relief came in the person of Des Marais,who announced that his father-in-law, Pont-grav6, was already at Tadoussac. Champlainat once set out to meet him, and it was arrangedthat Pontgrave should take charge of thesettlement for the coming year, while Cham-plain fulfilled his promise to aid the Algon-quins in their war with the Iroquois. Thefull plan required that Pontgrave shouldspend the winter in Canada, while Champlain,after his summer campaign, was to re
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