. Indian history for young folks . the country was barren and destitute of resources, theSpaniards, after two years of fruitless exploration, returned to Mexico,wiser, but no richer than when they departed. Nearly seventy years elapsed before France, desolated by civil strifeand torn by religious dissensions, could renew her purpose of founding aFrench empire in America. In the mean time, however, voyages for traf-fic with the natives were regularly and successfully made, and there hadbeen no less than one hundred and fifty French fishing-vessels at New-foundland in a single year. EARLY EUROPE
. Indian history for young folks . the country was barren and destitute of resources, theSpaniards, after two years of fruitless exploration, returned to Mexico,wiser, but no richer than when they departed. Nearly seventy years elapsed before France, desolated by civil strifeand torn by religious dissensions, could renew her purpose of founding aFrench empire in America. In the mean time, however, voyages for traf-fic with the natives were regularly and successfully made, and there hadbeen no less than one hundred and fifty French fishing-vessels at New-foundland in a single year. EARLY EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE WITH THE INDIANS. 65 The father of the French settlements in Canada was Samuel de Cham-plain, a skilful seaman, cool, courageous, and persevering, and a man ofscience. Selecting Quebec as the site for a fort, he returnedto France just before the issue to the Sieur De Monts of thepatent of Acadia, a region claimed by France to extend from the Dela-ware River to beyond Montreal. Port Royal, called Annapolis after the. DE MONTS. conquest of Acadia, in honor of Queen Anne, was settled in the spring of1605, preceding by two years the first English settlement at Jamestown. With a view to future settlements, De Monts explored and claimed forFrance the rivers, coasts, and bays of New England as far southas Cape Cod. Jesuit missions were at once established amongthe natives. That at St. Marys, the oldest European settlement in Michi- 1605. 66 INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. gau, was established in 1668. Though many of these heroic men suffereddeath by torture at the hands of the natives, others sprang forward to taketheir vacant places. Through their influence the Abenakis of Maine, al-ready hostile to the English, became the allies of France, and made a firmbarrier to English encroachments. AVithin the present limits of the United States, a French colony was,in 1613, planted at Mount-Desert. Quebec was founded by Champlain in1608. Having formed an alliance with the Algon
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