. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... £J[ONjhT SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN. a nobleman of Brittany, attempted to planta colony on the Isle of Sable. The colonistsconsisted of criminals from the prisons ofFrance, and the effort proved a failure, asmight have been expected from the outsetIn 160O; Chauvin obtained a patent fromthe crown, conferring upon him a monopolyof the fur trade, and Pontgrave, a merchantof St. Malo, became his partner in the enter*prise. Two successful voyages were made 48 DISCOVERY OF
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... £J[ONjhT SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN. a nobleman of Brittany, attempted to planta colony on the Isle of Sable. The colonistsconsisted of criminals from the prisons ofFrance, and the effort proved a failure, asmight have been expected from the outsetIn 160O; Chauvin obtained a patent fromthe crown, conferring upon him a monopolyof the fur trade, and Pontgrave, a merchantof St. Malo, became his partner in the enter*prise. Two successful voyages were made 48 DISCOVERY OF THE WESTERN CONTINENT. to Canada, and Chauvin intended founding acolony there. His death, in 1602, preventedthe execution of this plan. In 1603, a company of merchants of Rouenwas organized, and Samuel Champlain, anable and experienced officer of the Frenchnavy, was placed in charge of an expedition,. CABOT ON THE SHORES OF LABRADOR and sent to Canada to explore the country. 1He was in every way qualified for the taskcommitted to him, and after making a thor-ough and systematic examination of theregion of the St. Lawrence, and fixing uponQuebec as the proper site for a fort, returned to Franc=, and laid before his employers hisreport, which is still valuable for its accuratedescription of the country and the mannersof the natives. Soon after Champlains return to trance,a patent was issued to Des Monts, conferringupon him the sole right to colonize the vastregion lying between the fortiethand forty-sixth parallels of this territory embraced the region, the Rouen com-pany were unable for the present toaccomplish anything. Des Montsproceeded with his preparations,and in March, 1604, an expedition,consisting of two ships, was sentout to Acadie or Nova summer was passed in tradingwith the Indians and exploring thecoast, and in the autumn the col-onists
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