The beginnings of colonial Maine, 1602-1658 . ouage, a small village in the province ofSaintonge, France, and was born about the year 1567. From his early yearshe gave attention to practical seamanship, had an army experience of severalyears after 1592, and in 1599 was in command of a French ship of 500 tons inthe West Indies. On his return he prepared a report of his discoveries andobservations with illustrations, which remained in manuscript until printedin an English translation by the Hakluyt Society in 1859. In the precedingyear Champlain accompanied Pont GravS in his expedition to the St
The beginnings of colonial Maine, 1602-1658 . ouage, a small village in the province ofSaintonge, France, and was born about the year 1567. From his early yearshe gave attention to practical seamanship, had an army experience of severalyears after 1592, and in 1599 was in command of a French ship of 500 tons inthe West Indies. On his return he prepared a report of his discoveries andobservations with illustrations, which remained in manuscript until printedin an English translation by the Hakluyt Society in 1859. In the precedingyear Champlain accompanied Pont GravS in his expedition to the St. Law-rence, and it was his report concerning the inhabitants and products of thecountry that directed the attention of the King to the opportunities that thenew world afforded for French colonization and led to the de Monts expedi-tion and Champlains connection with it. Thenceforward Champlains lifewas devoted to French interests in America. It was an eventful life. Fit-tingly it closed at Quebec, where Champlain died in the autumn of nz m O ti02 O ?<!WCI THE DE MONTS COLONY. 31 the company, and the most distinguished of de Monts associates,was a Catholic. Of religious discussions among some of the colo-nists, however, there was no lack, as the records of the expeditionshow; but the purposes that led to the enterprise had no religiousends in view. The ends were pre-eminently national, and thosemost deeply interested in the colony evidently saw no reason whyCatholic and Protestant might not work together harmoniously inthe endeavor to establish a French settlement at some point on theAtlantic coast below Cape Breton. Among the colonists there were skilled artisans, selected doubt-less with reference to the requirements of such an their number was not large compared with others who aredescribed as vagabonds and ex-convicts,—men upon whom littledependence could be placed in an enterprise calling for steadfast-ness and heroic endurance amid trying circu
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