Narrative and Critical History of America: French explorations and settlements in North America, and those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes, 1500-1700. [c1884

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Justin Winsor
Houghton, Mifflin, 1884

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Página 342 - Yonnondio, our women had taken their clubs, our children and old men had carried their bows and arrows into the heart of your camp if our warriors had not disarmed them and kept them back, when your messenger, Ohguesse, came to our castles. It is...
Página 359 - Recueil de ce qui s'est passe" en Canada au sujet de la guerre, tant des Anglais que des Iroquois, depuis I'anne'e 1682.
Página 434 - Negogance," place for trade, Spanish negocio, trade), we can no longer hesitate to believe that the traditions reported by Danckers and other writers mentioned before had some foundation, and that the Spaniards knew and had explored the country on the Hudson long before the Dutch came, but had thought. as Peter Martyr expresses it, after the failures of Esteban Gomez and the Licenciado d' Aillon, ''To the South, to the South, for the great and exceeding riches of the Equinoctial; they that seek gold...
Página 409 - Society, the principal design of which should be to collect and preserve whatever may relate to the natural, civil or ecclesiastical History of the United States in general, and of this State in particular, and appointed Mr.
Página 296 - Though the productions of men of scholastic training, they are simple and often crude in style, as might be expected of narratives hastily written in Indian lodges or rude mission-houses in the forest, amid annoyances and interruptions of all kinds. In respect to the value of their contents, they are exceedingly unequal. . . . The closest examination has left me no doubt that these missionaries wrote in perfect good faith, and that the Relations hold a high place as authentic and trustworthy historical...
Página 456 - In passing upon this grave indictment, the court preferred to treat the defendant with clemency " on this occasion," and postponed action on the subject. These decisions naturally did not content Lamberton, and at a meeting of the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England, held at Boston September 7, complaint was made by his associates, Governor Theophilus Eaton and Thomas Gregson, of " injuries received from the Dutch and Swedes at Delaware Bay;" when it was "ordered that a letter be...
Página 418 - The voyage of Heyes was the cradling of a state. That Delaware exists as a separate commonwealth is due to this colony.
Página 421 - Narration of the Hostile Conduct of the Barbarous Natives towards the Dutch Nation, dated 1655, and gave the Indian treaty of 1645 in an appendix.
Página 336 - I give you against the very object for which they are given, beware not to do so on this occasion. I shall hold you answerable for bringing the disorder of the coureurs de bois to an end throughout Canada ; and this you will easily succeed in doing if you make a proper use of my authority. Take care not to persuade yourself that what I write to you comes from the ill-offices of the Intendant. It results from what I fully know from everything which reaches me from Canada, proving but too well what...
Página 291 - France," which is given in fac-simile in vol. ii. of this translation. It includes all North America, except the Arctic regions, but, singularly, omits Lake Champlain. President Sparks wrote in his copy: "An extremely rare book. ... It is peculiarly valuable as containing the first original account of the discoveries of La Salle by two [Recollect] missionaries who accompanied him. From this book, also, Hennepin drew the account of his pretended discovery of the Mississippi River.

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