On the other hand.html">hand, the Jesuits
they tended to view the life of the savages too exclusively
is so great as to overwhelm all readers who are not
Indian custom. Champlain wrote with sufficient knowledge
descriptive passages are sufficiently terse to come within
remember the perpetual interest which, for more than
Indian, the Voyages of Champlain are seen in their true.html">true
his wigwam, at his council, and on the war-path; watched
in the hour of vengeance. Tales of the wilderness, the
fascinate the imagination.html">imagination of Europe. Champlain's narrative
the imagination of every reader could supply details at
a good.html">good observer and an accurate chronicler. It is true
of distance, altitude, and chronology. But such slips as
blemish or tend to impugn the good faith of his statements
Everything considered, his substantial accuracy is much
one of his high character.html">character and disinterested zeal could
he had seen and done. The seal of probity is set upon
dealings with his employers and the king. Unselfish as
which the nation.html">nation was founded and the tradition.html">tradition which it
an imperishable tradition in the deeds and character of
the present stage in her development a great possession
the other hand, the nation is doomed to suffer which
seizure of Silesia by Frederick or Bismarck's manipulation
the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and
France in the spirit of unselfishness, of loyalty, and
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