The history of the Louisiana purchase . the heroism and address of theirpredecessors; but again all went to wreck,through neglect from outside and s]3itefulcontention within. Last came Suffren, a sailor 6 How Louisiana Came to Be of the liigliest genius, who won for a time anadvantage which France has usually lacked—the command of the sea. But all came tonaught. The adventurers were left to theirown resources; they fell a prey to their ownfoibles when success was right at hand. Theslower race, more persistent, pulling togetherto better purpose, if less adroit and brilliant,succeeded; and to-da
The history of the Louisiana purchase . the heroism and address of theirpredecessors; but again all went to wreck,through neglect from outside and s]3itefulcontention within. Last came Suffren, a sailor 6 How Louisiana Came to Be of the liigliest genius, who won for a time anadvantage which France has usually lacked—the command of the sea. But all came tonaught. The adventurers were left to theirown resources; they fell a prey to their ownfoibles when success was right at hand. Theslower race, more persistent, pulling togetherto better purpose, if less adroit and brilliant,succeeded; and to-daythe Emperor of Indiais the sovereim ofEngland. What happened inAmerica was of a piecewith the story of theFrench in the East In-dies. The adventurousspirits, impressed, asthey are still impressed,with the idea that theircountrys greatness de-pended on colonial ex-pansion, were early in the field. Jacques Car-tier penetrated to tlie site of Montreal in1534, and in 1603 Samuel Champlain was atQuebec. Champlain perhaps is the noblest 7. u^ History of The Louisiana Purchase type of tlie French colonizer that history af-fords, possessed as he was of all the conspic-uous merits of the type, with few of the de-fects. The prelude to his Canadian experi-ence was picturesque to a degree noteworthyeven in that age. After proving himself agood soldier, he sailed, at thirty-two, to His-paniola and the Spanish Main, keeping alwaysan intelligent diary, in which occurs the, forthat day, splendidly imaginative suggestionof an Isthmian canal. After penetrating asfar as Mexico he returned to France, going,as the seventeenth century opened, to breakthe path for his race in Canada. There is astory that the first settlers of Massachusetts,setting out from Boston to build a road west-ward, stopped at Watertown, scarcely tenmiles distant, reporting to the magistratesthat a road running farther in that directionwould never be required. Massachusetts Baybounded their horizon. The want of imagi-nation
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