. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . hamplain to beg for his aid against these Iroquois, who weretheir deadly foes. Champlain agreed to help them. The whitemen and the red menfeasted and smoked andmade speeches. Thenthey paddled up theriver and into LakeChamplain. If they hadbeen one month laterand had gone a littlefarther south, theymight have met HenryHudson and his Dutch-men sailing up the Hud-son. All the men that they thought of meeting were the Iroquois, Champlainand soon the Iroquois came. Champlains guns won the day, and j^oquo^sthere was no limit to the
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . hamplain to beg for his aid against these Iroquois, who weretheir deadly foes. Champlain agreed to help them. The whitemen and the red menfeasted and smoked andmade speeches. Thenthey paddled up theriver and into LakeChamplain. If they hadbeen one month laterand had gone a littlefarther south, theymight have met HenryHudson and his Dutch-men sailing up the Hud-son. All the men that they thought of meeting were the Iroquois, Champlainand soon the Iroquois came. Champlains guns won the day, and j^oquo^sthere was no limit to the devotion of the Indians. To show theiraffection and gratitude, they gave him the bleeding head of oneof their enemies and asked him to present it to his little battle between a few red men in the woods with somewhite men helping one side was an important event in Americanhistory, for ever after this the Iroquois hated the French andwere ready to help the English. That is why the French didnot venture to found any colonies in New York, although they. A JESUIT EXPLORER 116 OUR COUNTRYS STORY The Jesuits explored to the westward, up the Samt Lawrence and about theGreat Lakes. They claimed all the land that is drained by theriver, and called it New France. The first explorers were Roman Catholic priests called said that he would rather convert an Indian thanfound an empire, and this was the spirit of these priests. Amongthe hostile Indians they suffered fearful tortures. They werebeaten, they were burned, their fingers were cut off with shellsjoint by joint, and they were put to death in all the agonizingways that could be invented. Still, even after the Dutch hadransomed one and sent him home, he made his way back again topreach to his tormentors. One Jesuit, when pursued by Iroquois,might easily have made his escape, but hastened back to terriblesufferings because he remembered that some of his Indian con-verts had not yet been baptized. In all the
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