St Nicholas [serial] . sible in thesedays to understand how little they knew of thatregion. They talked about a northwest pas-sage to Cathay; and they not only talked aboutit, but they wrote learned and laborious trea- whose mighty course led to a mighty sea whichwas certainly not more than fifteen hundredmiles from Japan! Jacques Cartier, who shipped from St. Maloin 1534, explored the coast of Newfoundlandand made the circuit of the Gulf of St. Law-rence; and he did much else, too, for NewFrance, in opening up negotiations with themany tribes of Indians who thronged thou-sands strong, and fri
St Nicholas [serial] . sible in thesedays to understand how little they knew of thatregion. They talked about a northwest pas-sage to Cathay; and they not only talked aboutit, but they wrote learned and laborious trea- whose mighty course led to a mighty sea whichwas certainly not more than fifteen hundredmiles from Japan! Jacques Cartier, who shipped from St. Maloin 1534, explored the coast of Newfoundlandand made the circuit of the Gulf of St. Law-rence; and he did much else, too, for NewFrance, in opening up negotiations with themany tribes of Indians who thronged thou-sands strong, and friendly, from all the regionsin and about Quebec and Montreal and Ot-tawa and Kingston. Another mariner of —Francis Greve—began the colonizationof the land. About 1570, in France, Samuel deChamplain was born; and when he reached theage of early manhood he, too, joined in the New-World exploration in the region above the GreatLakes. The kings of France were much inter-ested in the new land, and did all in their. ON THE DETROIT RIVER. tises, and spoiled many valuable reams of paper,and made very many amusing volumes, in theirefforts to prove that just beyond the head ofLake Superior there was a great and short river power not only to explore the region, but tocolonize and develop it. Champlain, in 1615,made an expedition up the Ottawa River andpenetrated as far as into Georgian Bay, thus 1898 ] THE GREAT LAKES. 357
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