A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . of Mon-treal). This name was afterward restricted to the regionwhich was finally named by the English New Brunswickand Nova Scotia. In the same year a French adventurernamed Samuel de Champlain sailed up the St. Lawrence asfar as Montreal. In 1604 a settlement called Port Royal ^ In 1598 the Marquis de la Roque established a colony on SableIsland, his colonists being taken from the prisons of France. It wasabandoned after a few years, the prisoners being pardoned and per-fnitted to return. 50 THE ERA OF EXPLORATION. w
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . of Mon-treal). This name was afterward restricted to the regionwhich was finally named by the English New Brunswickand Nova Scotia. In the same year a French adventurernamed Samuel de Champlain sailed up the St. Lawrence asfar as Montreal. In 1604 a settlement called Port Royal ^ In 1598 the Marquis de la Roque established a colony on SableIsland, his colonists being taken from the prisons of France. It wasabandoned after a few years, the prisoners being pardoned and per-fnitted to return. 50 THE ERA OF EXPLORATION. was made in Acadia by Poutrincourt (poo-trang-coor), acompanion of De Monts, It was the first permanentFrench settlement in America, and preceded by threeyears the first English settlement. It was afterwardnamed Annapolis in honor of the English Queen Anne. Champlains Career.—Champlain returned in 1608 andbuilt a fort at Quebec, as a fur-trading post. This placebecame the centre of wide-spread French explorations, inthe interests of trade, missionary work, and ^!8? *?.?..;• . RiiNS OF Foirr Ti< (inmikiioga. Champlain discovered the beautiful lake which bears hisname, and pushed his explorations westward as far as LakeHuron. He found himself in a centre of Indian war, andwas induced by the Hurons to take their part in their warswith the Iroquois,—the powerful Indian confederacy ofNew York. The first Indian battle in which the whites took part waf?fought in 1609, at a point, near the site of Fort Ticonderoga,to which the Hurons, with their French allies, had as-cended in canoes up Lake Champlain. The muskets ofthe whites, new and terrible weapons to the Indians, wonChamplain and his followers an easy victory. But it was THE FRENCH EXPLORERS. 5] destined to be a costly one. It made the Iroquois bitterenemies of the French, and they afterward revenged theirdefeat in blood. They were always ready in after-years tojoin the English against the French, and did much
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