A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . uth. Here, on the 9th of April of that year,he planted the banner of France and took possession ofthe great stream and the surrounding country in the nameof Louis XIV. He named the country Louisiana, after thismonarch, and afterward sought to found a colony at themouth of the Mississippi; but through an error the colonylanded on the coast of Texas, where it was subsequently destroyed by the Spaniards. La Sallestarted on foot for Canada to obtainaid for the suffering colonists, but hadnot gone far before he was murdere
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . uth. Here, on the 9th of April of that year,he planted the banner of France and took possession ofthe great stream and the surrounding country in the nameof Louis XIV. He named the country Louisiana, after thismonarch, and afterward sought to found a colony at themouth of the Mississippi; but through an error the colonylanded on the coast of Texas, where it was subsequently destroyed by the Spaniards. La Sallestarted on foot for Canada to obtainaid for the suffering colonists, but hadnot gone far before he was murderedby some mutinous companions. Work and Claims of the French.—The French in America at the datenow reached were not numerous, buttheir enterprise had been great. Theyhad explored the Great Lakes, trav-ersed Lakes Cham plain and George,passed down the Mississippi from theFalls of St. Anthony to the Gulf, andjourneyed widely through the interior. Here and therethey had planted settlements in the wilderness, and hadestablished mihtary posts on the lakes and the A French Woodsman. THE ENGLISH EXPLORERS. 53 Their claims were greater than their discoveries, especiallythose made by La Salle, which covered the whole valleyof the Mississippi as far east as the Alleghanies and indefi^nitely westward. 3. THE ENGLISH EXPLORERS. Beginnings of English Exploration.—Though an Englishexpedition, that of the Cabots, was the first to discover NorthAmerica, the English were slower than the French in ex-ploring it. They did not seek American waters until after1560, when Sir John Hawkins, a famous sailor, began tokidnap negroes in Africa and sell them as slaves to theSpanish in the West Indies. At that time few people sawanything wrong in slavery. Hawkins was looked upon ashonest and pious. He felt that he was helping English tradeby deahng in slaves, and had on his coat of arms a pictureof a negro bound with a cord. Sir Francis Drake.—Other English mariners engaged inpiracy, seiz
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