. Indian history for young folks . JACQUES CARTIER ERECTS A CROSS EARLY EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE WITH THE INDIANS. 55 The Indian capital they found encompassed by a triple row of highpalisades of heavy timber, and having only a single gate of this, and elsewhere on the walls, were platforms for its defenders,provided with ladders and with stones for its defence. It contained some I Ife : A • • i B 1 , , I ^.^rx - ;,---;! i^viv fc-^t; > -. VIEW OF MONTREAL AND ITS WALLS IN 1700. (FlOIII ill! old Frrlldl print.) fifty houses, each about fifty paces long, and twelve or fifteen broad,
. Indian history for young folks . JACQUES CARTIER ERECTS A CROSS EARLY EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE WITH THE INDIANS. 55 The Indian capital they found encompassed by a triple row of highpalisades of heavy timber, and having only a single gate of this, and elsewhere on the walls, were platforms for its defenders,provided with ladders and with stones for its defence. It contained some I Ife : A • • i B 1 , , I ^.^rx - ;,---;! i^viv fc-^t; > -. VIEW OF MONTREAL AND ITS WALLS IN 1700. (FlOIII ill! old Frrlldl print.) fifty houses, each about fifty paces long, and twelve or fifteen broad, builtof wood, and covered with bark, and skilfully joined together. Thesehouses had many rooms, and in the midst of each was a large court, with aplace in the centre for a fire. In a room at the top of their houses theystored their corn. Fishing and agriculture furnished them with chief, an old man, was borne to Cartiers presence on the shoul-ders of his men; around his forehead he wore a band of red - coloredhedgehog skins, but in other respects was dressed no better than hispeople. Viewing the white men as heavenly visitors, the Indians crowdedaround them to touch them, paying them every mark of reverence andrespect. They brought to Cartier their lame, blind, diseased, and im-potent, to be healod ; and he gratified their desires, praying to God to openthe hearts of these poor people that they might be converted. The inter-view cl
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