An American history . n permitted agricul-ture to be carried on. only in the neighborhood of the portswhich served to protect the settlers from the Indians. Westward through the St. Lawrence valley and along the 102. Theshores of the Great Lakes roamed the hunters and trappers j/*and fur traders, the wood-rangers (coureurs de bois) who defiedthe trading laws of the kings governor at Quebec. These wildFrenchmen often sacrificed their native tongue, their religion, 86 The Establishment of the English 103. TheJesuit mis-sionaries inWew France even their very civilization itself, and joined the ab
An American history . n permitted agricul-ture to be carried on. only in the neighborhood of the portswhich served to protect the settlers from the Indians. Westward through the St. Lawrence valley and along the 102. Theshores of the Great Lakes roamed the hunters and trappers j/*and fur traders, the wood-rangers (coureurs de bois) who defiedthe trading laws of the kings governor at Quebec. These wildFrenchmen often sacrificed their native tongue, their religion, 86 The Establishment of the English 103. TheJesuit mis-sionaries inWew France even their very civilization itself, and joined the aboriginal Ameri-can tribes, marrying Indian squaws, eating boiled dog and mush,daubing their naked bodies with greasy war paint, and leadingthe hideous dance or the murderous raid. The Catholic priests played a part in New France quite asimportant as that of the Puritan ministers in New Jesuits, a strict religious order inflamed with unquenchablemissionary zeal for the conversion of the Indians, came to the. An Early French Fort in Canada colony in its earliest years. In 1634 they were the pioneers tothe savage lands of the Hurons about Georgian Bay, and duringthe whole of the seventeenth century they kept side by side withthe-explorer and the trader in their march westward. They haveleft us an account of their triumphs and martyrdoms in a seriesof annual reports sent home to the superior of their order inFrance during the years 1632 to 1675. These Jesuit Rela-tions have recently been edited in over seventy volumes by adistinguished American scholar. They form one of the mostvaluable sources for the study of the French in America. Champlain had advocated westward expansion. He himselfdiscovered Lakes Ontario and Huron and explored the Ottawa
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